Thanks to Tom Service at the Guardian for pointing out Vice Magazine’s classical reviews. Many are spot on and most are hilarious, including the best review of a Schumann disc I’ve ever seen:
ROBERT SCHUMANN PERFORMED BY VARIOUS ARTISTS Chamber Music EMI Classics |
Some major monster party boner jams on this sophomore effort by Big Boy Schumann. Serious brank-ass jimmy-hat jim-jams. Here’s how it works. Holding a bat mitzvah for your niece? Don’t play this. Doing a surprise bachelorette party for the chick in apartment 8G? Turn that shit up! Back that shit up! Schuuuuuuuuuumaaaaaann!!!!!
CLYDESDALE OYNKE |
Turn that shit up, indeed!
The bad reviews are, if anything, even funnier.
I also love the review of the Saint-Saens Cello Sonatas (very positive, perhaps too much so for these pages), and commend it to your attention.
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