Britten: War Requiem
”….But the result was in fact enormously impressive, thanks above all to the conductor and the soloists….” (Göteborgs Posten).
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Wagner: Siegfried Idyll / Copland: Appalachian Spring
”Phipps’ clear and distinct beat, without any extravagant gesture, gave a restrained and noble interpretation, achieving balance and transparency rather than schmaltz…such unsentimentally beautiful Wagner!...”
”Appalachian Spring is…a loosely structured rhapsody whose constituent parts do not necessarily cohere., but they did in Simon Phipps’ hands…..Phipps enjoyed a musicianly triumph here: this was more polished and sensual Copland than I have heard for a long time…..People of his calibre are worth their weight in gold, and then some.”
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Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto
” An extra eulogy to the conductor Simon Phipps, who makes the Musikhögskola’s symphony orchestra play with bravura and elegance”
Alban Berg: Chamber concerto
”The performance was definitely high class, the soloists and orchestra displayed both sensitivity and virtuosity, excellently conducted by Simon Phipps. This conductor combines in an interesting way tension and relaxation, exuding calm but creating precision. He made the ensemble play as a perfectly integrated unit in Ida Gotkovsky’s Poème de feu, where the musik glowed like a huge welding torch”.
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Mozart ”Cosi fan tutte”
”Unavoidably one’s attention is drawn to the orchestra pit, where the music theatre’s young orchestra under Simon Phipps – a pupil of Harnoncourt but no fundamentalist - plays Mozart with quite exceptional beauty, sensuality and expressiveness, and exceptional in terms of decades rather than years. One can only congratulate the Malmö audience.”
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Puccini: Tosca
”This was combined with, disregarding a few slips in the flute in all the impressive performance of the orchestra, which the young conductor Simon <Phipps lead with enormous mediterranean bravoura despite his English origins. The Englishman had also a natural feel for all the small sighs, sobs and spinto outbursts. The singers and audience thanked him with tumultuous applause."
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Simon Phipps has conducted most of the professional orchestras in Sweden including the Swedish National Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony. His choir Simon Phipps Vokalensemble has established itself as one of Sweden's finest and has won prizes in many international competitions, most notably at the prestigious festival in Marktoberdorf, Germany, (May 2005) where they were awarded first prize and a special prize for best programme. The choir was elected Choir of the year 2006 in Sweden, and took the Grand Prix as well as four other first prizes at Florilège vocale de Tours in France in 2007. Since Autumn 2007 the choir has adopted the name of The Swedish Chamber Choir.
Simon was born in London and received his early musical training as a chorister at New College, Oxford. He took his B.A. as a Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge and went on to study singing at the Guildhall School in London. Conducting studies in Munich and Manchester followed and he made his professional debut at the Gothenburg Opera in 1985.
The next ten years were largely devoted to opera with engagements at Sadlers Wells and English National Opera in London, Krefeld in Germany, and Malmö in Sweden . In 1994 Simon Phipps moved to Sweden and has since then lived in Gothenburg. Although opera is still an important feature of his career (since 2003 he has been the Artistic Director of Läckö Opera Festival and in November 2005 he conducted the Scandinavian premiere of Britten's Paul Bunyan in Gothenburg) orchestral and choral work is now equally important.
Orchestral
Alfvén Midsommarvaka
Bartok Concerto for orchestra, Dance suite, Rumanian dances
Beethoven Symphonies: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9
Overtures: Egmont, Fidelio, Coriolan
Piano concertos: 1, 3, 4, 5
Berlioz Symfonie fantastique
Overtures: Carnaval Romain, Béatrice et Benedicte
Les nuits d'été
L'enfance du Christe
Bizet Jeux d'enfants
Suites: L'Arlèsienne, Carmen
Brahms Symphony 2
Academic festival overture
Serenade 2
Concerto for violin and cello
Piano concerto 2
German Requiem
Britten Four sea interludes from Peter Grimes
Variations on a theme of Henry Purcell
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Simple symphony
War Requiem
St Nicholas
Debussy Nocturnes
Prélude à l'après-midi
Dvorak Symphonies: 6, 8, 9
Symphonic variations
Overture: Carnaval
Cello concerto
Elgar Enigma variations
Overtures: In the South, Cockaigne, Froissart
Cello concerto
Introduction and allegro
Serenade for strings
Dream of Gerontius
The music makers
Marches: Pomp and circumstance 1, 3
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
American in Paris
Cuban overture
Gorecki Symphony 3
Grieg Peer Gynt (complete)
Norwegian dances
Piano concerto
Haydn Symphonies: 6, 7, 8, 22, 49, 80, 92, 96, 104
Cello concerto (C)
Hindemith Mathis der Maler
Konzertmusik for Brass and Strings
Holst The planets
St Pauls suite
Larsson Förklädd Gud
Mendelssohn Overtures: Hebrides, Ruy Blas, Midsummer night's dream
Violin concerto
Elijah
Mozart Symphonies: 25, 29, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Overtures: Figaro, Entführung, Idomeneo
Piano concertos: K 453, 466, 467, 491, 595
Violin concertos: K 211, 219
Exsultate jubilate
Mass in C minor
Mussorgsky Pictures at an exhibition (Ravel)
Night on the bare mountain
Trepak
Nicolai Overture: The merry wives of Windsor
Nielsen Aladdin, Fynsk vår
Orff Carmina Burana
Poulenc Piano concerto 2
Aubade
Babar
Prokofiev Peter and the wolf
Romeo and Juliet: suites
Love of three oranges: suite
Rachmaninov Piano concerto 2
Rhapsody on a theme of Pagannini
Rautavaara Cantus arcticus
Ravel Mother Goose: suite
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Boléro
Rossini Overtures: William tell, Barber of Seville, Italian girl
Saint Säens Le carnival des animaux
Shostakovich Symphony 5
Piano concerto 2
Cello concerto 1
Violin concerto 1
Schubert Symphonies: 5, 8
Rosamunde: suite
Schumann Overture: Manfred
Piano concerto
Symphony 1
Schönberg Chamber symphony 1
Song of the wood-dove
Pierrot lunaire
Sibelius Symphonies: 1, 2, 5
Karelia suite
Valse triste
Smetana Moldau, Sarka, Viserad
Dance of the comedians
Strauss (R) Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Tod und Verklärung
Stravinsky Petruschka,
Firebird (complete ballet)
Symphonies of wind
Piano concerto
Symphony of psalms
Mass
Tchaikovsky Symphonies: 3, 4, 5, 6
Romeo and Juliet
Suites: Swan lake, Sleeping beauty, Nutcracker
The tempest
Overture: 1812
Capriccio Italien
Piano concerto 1
Violin concerto
Serenade for strings
Vaughan Wlliams Sea symphony
Flos campi
The lark ascending
Wagner Tristan: Prelude and Liebestod
Overture: Meistersinger
Siegfried idyll
Walton Belshazzar's feast
Façade
Johannesburg festival overture
Crown imperial
Weber Overtures: Freischütz, Oberon, Euryanthe
Clarinet concertos 1, 2
Webern Variations for orchestra
Opera
Beethoven Fidelio
Bizet Carmen
Boertz Magnus Gabriel
Britten Peter Grimes
Rape of Lucretia
Billy Budd
Noyes fludde
Let's make an opera
Curlew river
Paul Bunyan
Albert Herring
Turn of the screw
Chabrier L'étoile
Cimarosa Il matrimonio segreto
Donizetti L'elisir d'amore
Gerhard The duenna
Gershwin Porgy and Bess
Gluck Alceste
Humperdink Hänsel und Gretel
Händel Serse
Hulphers Pojken och fåglarna
Kühr Stallerhof
Menotti The medium
Monteverdi Poppea
Mozart Die Entführung
Idomeneo
Don Giovanni
Cosi fan tutte
Die Zauberflöte
Puccini Tosca
La Boheme
Purcell Dido and Aeneas
Rameau Platée
Reimann Lear
Rossini La pietra del paragone
Tchaikovsky Onegin
Verdi Nabucco
Rigoletto
Un ballo in maschera
Otello
Weill Mahagonny
Der Jasager
Ballet
Schedrin Ana Karenina
Stravinsky Firebird
Petruschka
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
Operetta/Musical
Berlin Annie get your gun
Kalman Gräfin Mariza
Lehar Die lustige Witwe
Millöcker Der Bettelstudent
Offenbach Belle Hélène
Orpheus
Sullivan Mikado
Gondoliers
Yeoman of the guard
Pinafore
Ruddigore
Johannes Brahms, Geistlich und weltlich.
Francis Poulenc, Sacré et Profane.
