Simca Heled Live II by Simca Heled

Various composers

Simca Heled

Simca Heled Live II

Format: CD
Label: Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC: 0044747337722
Catnr: CRC 3377
Release date: 10 July 2015
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Label
Centaur Records, Inc.

UPC
0044747337722

Catalogue number
CRC 3377

Release date
10 July 2015

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Composer(s)

About the album

On this album cellist Simca Heled plays works by Couperin, Boccherini, Schubert, Stravinsky and Ailenberg. In the Cello concerto in B-Flat Major by Boccherini he plays together with The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, in the Pieces en concert for cello and strings by Couperin and the Arpeggione Sonata by Schubert with The Israel Sinfonietta and in the Suite Italienne for cello and piano by Stravinsky with pianist Jonathan Zak.

Artist(s)

Simca Heled (cello)

Israeli American- Simca Heled is a graduate of the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music. At the age of 24 he was appointed by Zubin Mehta to the position of Principal Cellist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He appeared many times as a soloist with that orchestra in Israel and on tours, and recorded a number of concertos with them. Heled's worldwide solo career started immediately after leaving the orchestra. He is also an acclaimed recitalist and chamber musician - and was a member (together with Jonathan Zak and Uri Pianka) of the well-known Yuval Trio for 26 years.
Simca Heled performed in most of the leading musical centers in Europe, North and South America, Australia etc. He was soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, the RAI and Jerusalem symphonies, the Pittsburgh and Baltimore Symphonies, the Lamoureux Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Frankfurt and Saarbrücken radio orchestras to mention a few. He has appeared as soloist with distinguished conductors like Blomstedt, Comissiona, Dorati, Inbal, Maazel, and Mehta among others. Simca Heled has been lecturing and giving Master-classes in many prestigious institutions in the U.S, Europe, Australia and South Africa and is a frequent visitor to the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv music academies and universities. Simca Heled has won further praise since his emergence as an active and talented conductor. His career as conductor has won him critical and audience acclaim. He has collaborated with Yoel Levi of the Atlanta Symphony and worked with George Mester of the Juilliard School of Music in New York. After conducting the Jerusalem Symphony in 1989, Simca Heled was immediately re-invited as guest conductor, and has conducted and recorded with that orchestra many times since. Some other orchestras Maestro Heled conducted are the Westfield Symphony of New Jersey, the Virginia Symphony, the San-Antonio Symphony of Texas, the St. Luke's Orchestra of New York, the Jerusalem Cameratta, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, The Haifa Symphony, the Israel Sinfonietta, the Wroclaw and Bialystok Philharmonics and the Opera Nova of Poland. In 1994 Mr. Heled was nominated to the position of Chief Conductor of the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Poland, and later on established, for a brief period, the Polish National Chamber Orchestra which was made of the best talent in Poland. Simca Heled was for many years the Artistic Director of Concerts Plus, a New York concert series praised for its innovative programming that was regularly broadcast on WQXR radio. Mr. Heled was the Music Advisor to the Instituto Tecnologico of Monterrey (Mexico), the SAT in Chihuahua and the University of Mexicali. Simca Heled recorded extensively (close to 100 titles) for DGG, CBS, Connoisseur-Society, In-Sync, Isradisc, MMG-VOX, IMI, Centaur, Relief, and Classico of Denmark.

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The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

The Israel Sinfonietta

Mendi Rodan (conductor)

Sidney Harth (conductor)

Composer(s)

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
It was in the genre of the Lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Prior to Schubert's influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism. Schubert expanded the potentialities of the genre like no other composer before.

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François Couperin

François Couperin was a French composer. He is the most imporant and best known member of the Couperin family, which consisted of a whole dynasty of composers. Couperin was nicknamed 'Le Grand' (the Great), and is considered to be one of the most seminal composers of the Baroque period, especially in regard to his music for harpsichord. His keyboard music is characterised by a strong idiomatic nature, both in its personal style and in its close relation to the instrument's features. Next to his harpsichord music, Couperin composed music for organ, vocal music, both sacred and secular, and chamber music. Moreover, he published several theoretical treatises on the playing techniques on the harpsichord and its role in the accompaniment of music.

Next to his harpsichord music, Couperin composed music for organ, vocal music, both sacred and secular, and chamber music. Moreover, he published several theoretical treatises on the playing techniques on the harpsichord and its role in the accompaniment of music.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.
Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. His "Russian phase" which continued with works such as Renard, The Soldier's Tale and Les Noces, was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassical music. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue and symphony), drawing on earlier styles, especially from the 18th century. This style was often referred to as Neoclassicism. In the 1950s, Stravinsky adopted serial procedures. His compositions of this period shared traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy, the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note cells and clarity of form, and of instrumentation.

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Luigi Boccherini

On the 28th of May, 2005, it was exactly 200 years ago that the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini died in Madrid (Spain was his second fatherland). While coming from the land of opera, perhaps ironically he became the most important 'Latin' composer in chamber music. His noble and intelligent style might be less sparkling than Haydn's or Mozart's, it is nonetheless characterised by a love for details. His 'invention' was the string quintet (two violins, viola and two cellos), of which he composed over 140. Besides that, he also composed about 100 string quartets, 60 string trios, cello concertos and symphonies.

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