[New-Poetry] Brodsky set to music

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/arts/music/14krem.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin

Music Review
Poetry and Song to Plumb the Russian Soul’s Depths 
 
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Published: February 14, 2008
The day the persecuted Russian poet Joseph Brodsky went into exile, a recording of Mozart’s Divertimento in D (K. 136) was on his record player, according to the program book for the concert by the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday evening. 

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Julien Jourdes for The New York Times

The soprano Julia Kogan singing with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin on Tuesday. 
The orchestra’s bristling performance of the work (written when Mozart was a teenager) certainly had a frisson of danger about it, with the Presto played so fast, it evoked someone fleeing. Misha Rachlevsky, the ensemble’s music director (who founded it in 1991), elicited warm, full-blooded and virtuosic playing with colorfully shaped, gleaming phrases.


“There ...” (2006), a bilingual song cycle by Eskender Bekmambetov based on Brodsky’s Russian poems and Brodsky’s own English translations, received its American premiere here


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