Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau brings the nuance of a Lieder artist to his solos, while tenor Gerhard Stolze, in spite of some liberties with phrasing, proves unerringly comical.

Orff's composition has been performed by many ensembles. The single song 'O Fortuna' (the Roman goddess of luck and fate ), from the movement 'Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi', is often heard in many popular settings such as films. No one has ever done the Bavarian beer hall bit any better, and the whole performance is fun from start to finish. Between 19, German composer Carl Orff composed music, also called Carmina Burana, for 23 of the poems. The orchestral playing sounds clean, characterful and suggestive the choral singing suitably lusty. German conductor Eugen Jochum's picturesque recording has a Germanness that is exactly on the mark. Orff's Carmina Burana invites the performer and listener alike to participate in the hedonistic enjoyment of rhythmically catchy and frequently repeated tunes, as well as equally simple forms, consonant harmony, powerful singing and colorful scoring marked by unstinting use of percussion. In writing Carmina Burana, he found his own, unmistakable style. He was past forty years old and more prominent in his native Munich as a music educator than a composer. Carmina Burana Carl Orff Jeanne Kostelic Donna Bricker Janzen Alex Eliopulos Herff Applewhite Saul Caston Berton Coffin University of Colorado Festival.

When Orff discovered the Carmina Burana for himself, the poems changed his entire career. The score, completed in 1936, received its premiere in Frankfurt on June 8, 1937. The poems comprise religious, political, moral, erotic, Bacchic and Satirical verses. He made use of some two dozen texts (though none of the melodies in the manuscript) to fashion one of the 20th century's most popular works for chorus and orchestra. In 1935, the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982) encountered the collection and was immediately seized by the earthy, unbridled imagery of its material. To this day, the original manuscript remains the richest source of secular poetry by the goliards - itinerant scholars and monks active in Europe from the late 10th century to the early 1200s. Carmina Burana was the title of a collection of medieval Latin and German lyrics published in 1847, taken from a 13th century manuscript then in the possession of a Benedictine abbey near Munich.

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