I appreciate in Kirill Yolkov, a young gifted composer, first and foremost the fact he is a Russian composer and that his works are suffused with Russian melodies. Already today K. Volkov has his own musical language, his own distinctive style. This allows us to hope that he is one of those young composers who will shoulder the responsibility of caring for the future of our native music.Aram Khachaturian ("Vechernaya Moskva", November 1, 1975)