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Title

Orff: Carmina Burana

Composer

Carl Orff

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Performer

Christian Gerhaher; Berliner Philharmoniker; Sally Matthews; Lawrence Brownlee

Label

EMI Classics

Format

Audio CD

Original Release Date

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Number of Discs

1

Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. O Fortuna
2. Fortune Plango Vulnera
3. Veris Leta Facies
4. Omnia Sol Temperat
5. Ecce Gratum
6. Tanz
7. Floret Silva
8. Chramer, Gip Die Varwe Mir
9. Reie/Swaz Hie Gat Umbe/Chume, Chum, Geselle Min/Swaz Hie Gat Umbe
10. Were Diu Werit Alle Min
11. Estuans Interius
12. Olim Lacus Colueram
13. Ego Sum Abbas
14. In Taberna Quando Sumus
15. Amor Volat Undique
16. Dies, Nox Et Omnia
17. Stetit Puella
18. Circa Mea Pectora
19. Si Puer Cum Puellula
20. Veni, Veni, Venias
21. In Trutina
22. Tempus Est Iocundum
23. Dulcissime
24. Ave, Formosissima
25. O Fortuna

Historical Period

Unknown

Subgenre

General

Language

Unknown

EAN

0724355788825

Original MSRP

$16.98

Description

Although a prolific composer, Carl Orff (1895-1982) is most famous for his educational work and his Carmina Burana. Scored for orchestra, chorus, and three vocal soloists, it was originally conceived as an opera and first performed in a staged production in Frankfurt in 1937. Breaking away from both the lush romanticism and the serialism current at the time, Orff set out in a new--or perhaps very old--direction, based on the simplest elements of music: major and minor triads, progressions in thirds and unisons, blocks of sounds, folksy, catchy tunes (some of which have found their way into soundtracks on film and television), pounding dance rhythms, all hammered home by endless repetition. The effect is almost hypnotic, but Orff avoids monotony by alternating solos with full and half choruses, and with violent contrasts of tempo, texture and dynamics (keep your finger firmly on the volume control). Perhaps the work's immediate and lasting success testifies to the public's readiness to return to an accessible, essentially primitive style.

The 13th-century texts in medieval Latin and German were found in 1847 in a Bavarian Benedictine monastery, a most unlikely place: explicit and frankly lascivious, they celebrate fickle fortune, spring, carousing and sensuous love, and include a lament by and for a swan who has been roasted on the spit. Orff also torments his soloists by sending the tenor up to high C's and D's, the baritone to high A's, and the soprano on coloratura excursions up to B and D. The performance is positively stunning; all the participants sing and play their hearts out with boundless enthusiasm and unbridled abandon. --Edith Eisler

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