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Quatre motets pour le temps de noël
O magnum mysterium
Quem vidistis pastores dicite
Videntes stellam
Hodie Christus natus est

Salve Regina

Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Timor et tremor
Vinea mea electa
Tenebrae factae sunt
Tristis est anima mea

Exultate Deo

Sept chansons
La blanche neige
À peine défigurée
Par une nuit nouvelle
Tous les droits
Belle et ressemblante
Marie
Luire

Un soir de neige
De grandes cuillers de neige
La bonne neige
Bois meurtri
La nuit le froid la solitude

Chansons françaises
Margoton va t'a l'iau
La belle se sied au pied de la tour
Pilons l'orge
C'est la petit' fill' du prince
Ah! mon beau laboureur
Les tisserands

Choir of the year, 2006

Simon Phipps Vocal Ensemble was formed in 1997. Most of the 26 singers have a professional background in music, and several of them are working as musicians in and around Göteborg. The ensemble was named Choir of the Year 2006 by Rikskonserter.
During the last few years Simon Phipps Vocal Ensemble has established itself as one of Sweden’s most prominent choirs. By winning a number of competitions, both nationally and around Europe, it has consolidated its position as an ensemble with a high quality of sound and a particular depth of repertoire.
Sacré et Profane consists of choir music by Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), with lyrics by great French poets such as Paul Eluard and Guillaume Apollinaire. Poulenc is perhaps primarily regarded as a composer of vocal works: solo songs, choir music, oratories and operas, music that he set to lyrics of a high literary quality. Simon Phipps Vocal Ensemble has previously made a recording of music by Benjamin Britten (FRCD 006). A third CD is in the making, and will include works by Johannes Brahms. These three records reflect the composers’ interpretations of both sacred and secular lyrics. Thus their common designation "sacred and secular".