Yuri Falik belongs to a generation whose creativity, self-identification, and outlook were formed in the Sixties. He is a man of the Thaw era. However, his style is a constantly varying phenomenon, and every new work is a discovery. Falik cannot be simply allied to innovators or to traditionalists: he did not invent a new sound system, but he is by no means bound by tradition. A brilliant master, at ease with all compositional methods, he is selective in using new techniques — just as far as they are needed for the concept. He looks for and finds hidden reserves in traditional genres and forms.
