Yuri Falik - String Quartet No. 3 (1975)
YURI FALIK (1936-2009)
Juri Falik : cellist, composer, conductor and teacher,
was the disciple of the acknowledged Stolyarsky music school in Odessa. Studying in the Leningrad conservatoire he acquired two specialities: cello (professor A. Strimer) and composition (professor B. Arapov). Post-graduate education (M. Rostropovich). Falik was a professor of composition and instrumentation perfoming as a conductor all over the Russian cities and abroad. Among his creations there are many opuses of diverse genres. Numerous chamber and choral compositions by Falik are perpetually performed all over the world by the European and American ensembles and choral groups.
---
Taneyev String Quartet :
Vladimir Ovcharek (first violin)
Grigory Lutsky (second violin)
Vissarion Soloviov (viola)
Josif Levinzon (cello)
The Taneyev Quartet has rightly earned
the reputation as one of the finest
Russian string quartets from the latter
half of the 20th century. This talented
ensemble has made the Beethoven,
Tchaikovsky, Taneyev, and Shostakovich
quartets its specialties, though its
repertory has been extensive, taking in
modern works by Salmanov, Basner,
Chernov, and Yevlakhov, as well as other
Russian mainstream fare by Glinka,
Myaskovsky, Borodin, and, of course,
music by a number of composers
outside the Russian sphere. The
Taneyev Quartet has made numerous
recordings, mostly for the old Soviet-era
Melodiya label. Many of these efforts
have been reissued by Russian Disc,
Praga, and other labels.
-- RECORDED FROM VERY RARE Stereo LP made in 1980, GDR (DDR) --