Yuri Falik

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 18 November 2007

Born

Falik was born 30 July 1936 in Odessa.

Education

He got his musical education at the world-renowned Stoliarsky musical school. He graduated in 1962 from Leningrad Conservatoire as cellist (class of professors A. Strimmer and M. Rostropovich) and as composer (class of professor B. Arapov).

Works

Quartet No. 1 in three movements (1959)

Trio for oboe, cello and piano in five movements (1959)

Concertino for oboe and chamber orchestra in two movements (1961)

Five Preludes for piano (1962)

First Concerto for string orchestra and percussion in three movements (1963)

Wind Quintet in two movements (1964)

String Quartet No. 2 "In Memory of Balkasin"

LP Melodiya D 019161-2: Taneyev Quartet
"Buffoons", concerto for winds and percussion (1966)

Concerto No. 1 for full symphony orchestra after the legends of Till Ulenspiegel in four movements opus 12 (1967)

LP Melodiya: Leningrad PO, G. Rozhdestvensky (cond)
Music for Strings (1968)
First versionin 1965; revised in 1968.
LP Supraphon 1110 2280: Prague Symphony Orchestra, Petr Vronsky (cond)
"Orestea", a choreographic tragedy in one act opus 15 (1968)
Libretto by G. Alexidze after Aeschylus Tragedy
"Nadine's Tales", piano cycle for youth (1969)

"Triptych" for chorus a cappella (1969)

Lyrics by V. Soloukhin.
"Autumn Songs" for chorus a cappella (1970)
Lyrics by D. Kedrin, K. Balmont, I. Nikitin and A. Zhigulin.
Light Symphony in three movements (1971) opus 19
CD Moscow Musical Publishers MMI-1-003: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Academic SO, A. Dmitriev (cond)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in five movements (1971)
LP Melodiya C10 08787-88: Leningrad Chamber Orchestra for Old and Modern Music, E. Serov, V. Liberman (violin)
Invention for vibraphone, marimba and five tam-tams (1972)

"The Sad Mother", lullabies for mezzo-soprano and piano (1972)

Lyrics by G. Mistral, translated by O. Savich.
"Five Poems by Anna Akhmatova" for soprano and piano (1972)

Two Solfeggios "Prelude and Fugue" after Alexander Blok for chorus a cappella (1973)

LP Melodiya C10 07807-8: Leningrad Chamber Chorus, V. Nesterov (cond)
Children's Album, ten pieces for piano (1974)

"Cant-Vivat" for men's chorus (1974)

Lyrics by A. Sumarokov
"A Strange Lady" for chorus a cappella (1974)
Lyrics by A. Block
"A Harp", a choral poem for chorus a cappella (1974)
Lyrics of E. Mejelaitis
"Winter Songs", a cycle for mixed chorus (1975)
Lyrics of B. Pasternak and N. Zabolotsky
String Quartet No. 3 (1975)
LP Melodiya: Taneyev Quartet
Morning Mass for Igor Stravinsky (Elegiac Music) for 16 strings and four trombones (1975)
LP Melodiya: Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, G. Rozhdestvensky (cond)
Composition for solo violin (1975)

String Quartet No. 4 in three movements (1976)

"Estonian Watercolors", suite for women's chorus a cappella.

Lyrics of D. Vaarandi and Yu Lyiv.
Concerto No. 2 for orchestra "Symphony Etudes" in four movements opus 38 (1977)
LP Melodiya: Moscow Philharmonic SO, D. Kitaenko (cond)
Northern Flowers NF 9924: St. Petersburg Philarmonic Orchestra, Alexander Dmitriev (cond)
"Five Poems by Anna Akhmatova" for soprano and symphony orchestra (1978)

String Quartet No. 5 in three movements (1978)

LP Melodiya C10 23279: Taneyev Quartet
English Divertissement for flute, clarinet and bassoon (1978)

Composition for solo cello (1979)

"Poems of Igor Severianin", choir concerto for chorus a cappella (1979)

"Ring Day", vocal cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano on lyrics by early 20th century Russian poets (1980)

Pastoral and Burlesque for flute and piano (1980)

"Dedication to Paganini", invention and chaconne for piano (1981)

"Scapin Antics", an opera-buffo in three acts (1981-1982)

Libretto by Youri Falik after the Moliere comedy "Les Fourberies de Scapin".
Chamber Concerto for three flutes (big, alto, piccolo taken by one soloists) and string orchestra in four movements (1983)

Four Choir Miniatures after the poems by A. Block, M. Lervontov, R. Vinonen and A. Tarkovsky for chorus a cappella (1983)

String Quartet No. 6 in two movements (1984)

"Beranger Songs" for baritone and piano (1984)

Symphonietta for strings in two movements (1984)

"From Lyrical Diary" for tenor and piano on lyrics by V. Soloukhin and A. Zhigulin (1985)

"Ring Day", vocal-symphony cycle for mezzo-soprano and full symphony orchestra on lyrics by early 20th century Russian poets (1986)

"Trinity", concerto for chorus a cappella on lyrics by M.Tsvetaeva (1987)

Concertino for bassoon and string orchestra in three movements (1987)

Concerto Della Passione for cello and orchestra in four movements (1988)

Northern Flowers NF 9924: St. Petersburg Philarmonic Orchestra, Alexander Dmitriev (cond), Natalia Gutman (cello)
"O, Nature", concerto for mixed chorus on lyrics of B. Pasternak (1988)

"Polly and Dinosaurs", a musical fairy tale for two narrators, children choir and orchestra after Geraldine Freund's fairy tale (1988)

Vivat, Chicago Symphony, overture for symphony orchestra (1989)

"Russian Orthodox Liturgical Chants" for mixed chorus a cappella (1990-1992)

Text from Molitvoslov.
Symphony No. 2 "Cadish" (1993)

String Quartet No. 7 "Four Postludes" (1993)

Two Songs for soprano and piano (1995)

Lyrics by P. Maximovich, translated by A. Akhmatova.
Mass for soloists, choir and chamber orchestra (1996)

"Prayer" for chorus a cappella (1997)

"Pushkin's Verses", concerto for chorus a cappella (1998)

String Quartet No. 8 (2001)

"Elegy", concerto for soprano and chorus a cappella (2001)

Lyrics by A. Akhmatova and N. Gumilev.

Thanks to Wayne Reimer from the US for additional information.

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