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The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Piano: Ofra Yitzhaki 
Tel Aviv Saxophone Trio:
Gan Lev soprano saxophone, Ziv Slama alto saxophone, Maayan James baritone saxophone
Conductor Yuval Benozer  

The Israeli vocal ensemble (and guests) perform Preludes and Fugues from J. S. Bach’s masterpiece The Well-Tempered Clavier, one of the most famous works in the keyboard repertoire. This performance emphasizes the lyricism of the work, which almost begs to be performed by human voices.

Concert duration: 01:11:08 hours.
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 23.7.20.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Soloists: Daniela Skorka, soprano; Alon Harari, Alt; Ron Silberstein, tenor; Oded Reich, bass; Narrator: Alon Neuman
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Yuval Benozer

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble and guest artists in one of the most popular oratorios by Handel, the German composer who became one of England’s greatest composers. A unique performance, which combines narration in Hebrew (most of it from the Book of Maccabees) by actor Alon Neuman.

Concert duration: 01:27:50 hours.
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2.12.20.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Conductor Yuval Benozer
Guest Conductor Guy Pelc

Text: Paul Eluard

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble performs for the first time in Israel the cantata Figure Humaine, composed by Francis Poulenc in 1942, for texts by the French poet Paul Eluard, during the Nazi occupation. The work is considered by many to be the pinnacle of Poulenc’s work, if not one of the best works written in the 20th century.

Piece duration: 17:49 minutes.
The piece was performed as part of the “Sounds of Freedom” concert that took place at Tel Aviv Museum  of Art in 15.6.19.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Assistant Conductor Magdalena Klein (USA)
Music Director Yuval Benozer Assistant Conductor: Joel Sivan 
Barrocade Soloists:
Violin Shlomit Sivan, Rachel Ringelstein
Violone Amit Tifenbrunn
Theorbo Ophira Zakai
Organ and harpsichord Izhar Kershon
Guest Conductor Steven Sloane (USA-Germany)

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble with soloists of Barrocade Collective playing period instruments, in a program from the last collection of works by one of the greatest Italian Baroque composers. Also included instrumental music by Monteverdi’s contemporaries.

Concert duration: 1:04:50 hours
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 28.12.18.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Conductor Yuval Benozer
In Conversation with Arik: Yuval Benozer and Avivit Hochstadter (alt)

Prof. Arie Vardi hosts the Israeli Vocal Ensemble on the educational television program “Intermezzo with Arik” for an encounter of singing and conversation on vocal music.

Program duration: 27:04 minutes
The show aired on 12.8.18 on the Educational Television.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Soprano Tom Ben Ishai
Conductor Yuval Benozer

Noam Sheriff: Missa Terra Sancta World premiere.

A Mass for the Holy Land, the last work by composer Noam Sheriff, winner of the Israel Prize, was written especially for the Israeli Vocal Ensemble. The work is bilingual-sung in Latin and Hebrew, as well as bi-religious, Christian and Jewish, and was inspired by the composer’s visit to the Solesmes Abbey in France, the center of Gregorian chant culture. This visit reinforced in Sheriff the understanding that Gregorian music, based in part on pentatonic scales, is remarkably similar to the Biblical Hebrew Cantillation accents. These connections and others are expressed in the unique work. Conductor: Yuval Benozer. 

Piece duration: 30:15 minutes.
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 24.5.18.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Evergreen Band:
Michal Shachar, flutes, piano, melodica, voice; Moshe Avigdor, guitar; Gal Shachar, violin; Abe Doron, percussion
Conductor Yuval Benozer

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble together with Evergreen Band, specializing in Celtic music, in a concert of folk songs, dance rhythms, lyrical ballads, Scottish songs, and more. An exciting combination of the Celtic timbre with diverse Israeli and artistic roots.

Concert duration: 1:14:49 hours.
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of art in 15.5.17.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Saxophone: Eyal Isaac
Guest Conductor: Franz Herzog (Austria)

Many poets and composers have written about light. From the sunlight of dawn to the starlight, the light of eternity and the light of God. Each of them saw in it different shades but they were all captivated by the magic of light that always heralds the exit from darkness, and tried to describe it through the music. An experience of lights and sounds with the Austrian conductor and composer Franz Herzog, who leads the Israeli Vocal Ensemble in a program of choral music that is full of light, hope and faith.

Concert duration: 1:18:13 hours.
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in 28.2.17.