If you thought blogs were too harsh, wait until you see John Malkovich in Aleksey Igudesman’s theater spectacle The Music Critic. The symphony-comedy hybrid show — in which the actor roasts the likes of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and more — is going on tour in fall 2023.
“In The Music Critic, writer and composer Aleksey Igudesman fuses the sardonic and straight-faced humor for which actor John Malkovich is renowned, with the slapstick and out-of-the-box zaniness of renowned comic duo Igudesman & Joo,” reads a press release. “Igudesman, who is joined on the tour by longtime collaborator pianist Hyung-ki Joo, is determined to avenge some of the most brilliant pieces of music which were railed and reviled by critics at their premieres.”
Igudesman and Joo are joined by fellow musicians Antonio Lysy on cello and Hsin-Yun Huang and Claire Wells on violin. As spectators listen to the group perform some of the most recognizable...
“In The Music Critic, writer and composer Aleksey Igudesman fuses the sardonic and straight-faced humor for which actor John Malkovich is renowned, with the slapstick and out-of-the-box zaniness of renowned comic duo Igudesman & Joo,” reads a press release. “Igudesman, who is joined on the tour by longtime collaborator pianist Hyung-ki Joo, is determined to avenge some of the most brilliant pieces of music which were railed and reviled by critics at their premieres.”
Igudesman and Joo are joined by fellow musicians Antonio Lysy on cello and Hsin-Yun Huang and Claire Wells on violin. As spectators listen to the group perform some of the most recognizable...
- 5/8/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Associated Press Hyung-ki Joo, left, and Aleksey Igudesman.
Here’s how violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo perform Bach. With blissful expressions on their faces, they start with the gentle strains of Prelude in C—then John Malkovich interrupts, Igudesman falls to his knees in prayer and the piece somehow erupts into tango master Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango.”
Known as Igudesman & Joo, the duo lampoons the perceived stuffiness of classical music using daffy comedy skits and genre-blurring music mashups.
Here’s how violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo perform Bach. With blissful expressions on their faces, they start with the gentle strains of Prelude in C—then John Malkovich interrupts, Igudesman falls to his knees in prayer and the piece somehow erupts into tango master Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango.”
Known as Igudesman & Joo, the duo lampoons the perceived stuffiness of classical music using daffy comedy skits and genre-blurring music mashups.
- 4/17/2012
- by John Jurgensen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Occasionally viral videos reassert themselves years after their debut to the world, and seem somehow more applicable. Such is the case with "The Cyber Composer," violinists Aleksey Igudesman's and Sebastian Gurtler's playful commentary on modern entertainment consumption. In the 2008 video, a live performance by the Upper Austrian Youth Orchestra stops, starts, pauses, and resumes not based on the conductor's directions, but according to the whims of a man pressing buttons on a remote control. In a year that's seen "Tweet seats" emerge at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and a YouTube hunt for soloists launch in Pittsburgh, Igudesman's and Gurtler's absurdist vision seems more like an ad than satire. Watch it below, and view more such classically-inspired sketches at Igudesman's site.
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- 3/5/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
At the centre of Pianomania is a fair-haired, mild-mannered man wearing rimless spectacles who tunes concert pianos in Vienna for Steinway. Movies being what they are today, you expect some 15 minutes in that this innocuous figure will throw himself in front of a celebrated musician on the stage of the Vienna Kunsthaus, disarm a would-be assassin and turn out to be a retired secret service agent just waiting to be called back to active service. In fact, it's more interesting than that. It's a genuine Austrian documentary subtitled "The Search for the Perfect Sound" about Stephan Knüpfer, a celebrated figure in musical circles, whom we see preparing the pianos for, and working very seriously with, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Alfred Brendel and Lang Lang, and for a little light relief, working on japes with the comic music duo Richard Hyung-ki Joo and Aleksey Igudesman. The directors tell us nothing about Knüpfer's background or career,...
- 8/21/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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