In Music
The 2011 contemporary classical album Troika includes Eskender Bekmambetov’s critically acclaimed song cycle “there…”, set to five of Joseph’s Brodsky’s Russian-language poems and his own translations of the poems into English. Victoria Poleva wrote Summer music (2008), a chamber cantata based on the verses by Brodsky for violin solo, children choir and Strings and Ars moriendi (1983–2012), 22 monologues about death for soprano and piano (two monologues based on the verses by Brodsky ("Song" and "Empty circle").
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