Track Listing

1. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna
2. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Fortune plango vulnera
3. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 1 Primo vere: Veris leta facies
4. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 1 Primo vere: Omnia Sol temperat
5. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 1 Primo vere: Ecce gratum
6. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Uf dem anger: Tanz
7. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Uf dem anger: Floret silva
8. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Uf dem anger: Chramer, gip die varwe mir
9. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Uf dem anger: Reie; Swaz hie gat umbe; Chume, chum geselle min; Sw
10. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Uf dem anger: Were diu werlt alle min
11. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 2 In Taberna: Estuans interius
12. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 2 In Taberna: Olim lacus colueram
13. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 2 In Taberna: Ego sum abbas
14. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 2 In Taberna: In taberna quando sumus
15. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 3 Cour d'amours: Amor volat undique
16. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 3 Cour d'amours: Dies, nox et omnia
17. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 3 Cour d'amours: Stetit puella
18. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 3 Cour d'amours: Circa mea pectora
19. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 3 Cour d'amours: Si puer cum puellula
20. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 3 Cour d'amours: Veni, veni, venias
21. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 3 Cour d'amours: In trutina
22. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 3 Cour d'amours: Tempus est iocundum
23. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: 3 Cour d'amours: Dulcissime
24. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Blanziflor et Helena: Ave formosissima
25. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3285 in Music
• Released on: 2002-07-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana

Customer Reviews

a very good "carmina" at a budget price
This is a very good modern recording of the beloved
"carmina burana". The conducting is vigorous. The orchestra, chior and three soloists are excellent.
Sumi jo is a delight- her "in trutina" and "stetit puela" are delicious.

Great music
I am very glad with this CD. I enjoy the music. There was also included text of poems -in Latin and in English, very convinient.

Another excellent "Carmina Burana" - at a bargain price
Dare I suggest that given a good conductor, an enthusiastic, well-trained choir and a competent orchestra, this piece is not that hard to pull off on disc? I mean no disrespect to the music or the performers by saying so, but I own three equally good recordings and know of half a dozen more which give similar pleasure. Either that, or it has been very lucky on disc; either way, this is another fine addition to the discography. The sound is clean and vivid, Mehta paces everything beautifully and the soloists are first rate - especially Sumi Jo (although her sustained lower notes are not as secure as other sopranos' - it's in the stratosphere that she excels). Bo Skhovus is in the same mould as Håken Hakegård: a virile, incisive bariton-martin with an extended upper range, although I think the older artist still has the edge in the Mata recording. I like Kowalski's alto version of the roasted swan-song, although for real vocal thrills I commend John Aler's full-voice account (again on the Mata disc): an extraordinary feat, as it never sounds strained, just pained! A third way of doing this "aria" is Gerhard Unger's method on the famous de Burgos recording: he slips into falsetto when required. I like all three ways of doing it, but admire and enjoy Aler most of all. De Burgos also employs two different baritones: one for the more robust, declamatory bits and another for the laments with the higher tessitura; that works too, especially with two such good singers as John Noble and Raymond Wolansky. That recording also has the lovely Lucia Popp, whose sustained breath is a thing of beauty, but Barabara Hendricks and Sumi Jo are equally impressive in their different ways. The best choir of all is de Burgos' New Philharmonia Chorus but there is a fair amount of tape hiss in the pre-digital 1966 recording and all three choirs on all three discs are committed and exciting. I am going round in circles here: what I am saying is that you could be happy with any of the three I mention (Mata, de Burgos or Mehta), though I would, if pushed, opt for the Mata as my favourite. A welcome libretto is provided, despite this being a budget edition - which is more than any other bargain version I know, so I won't moan about the few misprints in the Latin...