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Yuri Falik (b. 1936) is still active as a composer and was a pupil of Boris Arapov. He was a gifted cellist but gave up that career to focus on composition. He is a professor of composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (formerly Leningrad). Album Tracks 1. Sinfonietta Fanfares 2. Sinfonietta Requiem 3. Violin Concerto I. Prelude, II. Largo, III. Interlude, IV. Toccata, V. Postlude 4. Elegiac Music Dirge for Igor Stravinsky 5. First Concerto for Orchestra I. Thyl, II. No Jokes with the Inquisition, III. Nele, IV. Night on the Burning Stake
