Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox): Carmina Burana (Cantiones Profanae) CD Track Listing
Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox)
Carmina Burana (Cantiones Profanae) (1987)
Carl Orff (1895-1982)\nLondon Symphony Orchetra & Chorus conducted by Richard Hickox.\n* Penelope Walmsley-Clarke: Soprano\n* John Graham-Hall: tenor\n* Donald Maxwell: baritone\nThe Southend Boy's Chior, director Michael Crabb\nProduced by John Boyden Associates.\nEngineer: Michael Sheady.\n\nFor his texts Orff took 25 verses from a collection of 13th century poems discovered in the early 19th century in the abbey of Benediktbeuren near Munich, his native city. Carmina Burana in Latin means Songs of Beuren.\nVariously written by itinerant scholars in Low Latin and early German, the poems mingle Christian piety and pagan hedonism in a spirit of simplicity and unselfconscious directness which were intrinsic in the medieval approach to mortality. They amount to an uninhibited celebration of the pleasures of life and, particulary, love. Bed and bawdiness figure strongly in them.\nThe work is divided into three parts under the titles of "Spring" (Promo Vera tracks 3-5), "In the Tavern" (In Taberna 11-14, Uf dem Anger 6-10), and "Love" (Cour D'Amours 15-23). YEAR: 1987
This classical cd contains 25 tracks and runs 63min 35sec.
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: Music
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: music songs tracks classical Classical
- Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna (02:49)
In praise of Fortune giving voice to the fickleness of fate and fortune and inviting only the most welcome of each to preside over proceedings. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Fortuna Plango Vulnera (02:49)
The ups and downs of fortune. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Prima Vera: Veris Leta Facies (04:17)
Offering a primal welcome to the arrival of Spring. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Prima Vera: Omnia Sol Temperat (02:13)
Particularises the essence of the season in a baritone solo extolling its life-giving force of love, or sex. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Prima Vera: Ecce Gratum (02:53)
Conversly and setting up a wily contrast, depicts how sad springtime can be without the opportunity of love and urges the "have nots" to rectify the matter. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Uf Dem Anger: Tanz (01:44)
A dance scored with infections vitality ... - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Uf Dem Anger: Floret Silva (03:44)
... and contrasted by a soprano solo in which a girl laments the loss of her lover. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Uf Dem Anger: Chramer, Gip Die Varwa Mir (03:23)
Brings back the chorus to rejoice in the pleasures of nature and love while ... - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Uf Dem Anger: Reie (04:49)
... extending the fervour, infiltrates a winsome invitation to love. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Uf Dem Anger: Were Diu Werlt Alle Min (00:56)
The mood casts off any lurking inhibitions by proposing at lustful fantasy "to hold in my arms the fair Queen of England" (fortuitously unidenfifiable thanks to the variable period of the poems' origins!) - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - In Taberna: Estuans Interius (02:16)
Launches The Taverns section with a predictable salute to the efficady of the bottle and the flagon and the baritone musing on the personal use he has put them to. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - In Taberna: Olim Lacus Colueram (03:46)
Brings the tenor, singing falsetto, with the Song of the Roasting Swan. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - In Taberna: Ego Sum Abbas (01:28)
The baritone takes up the tale of the inveterate gambler. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - In Taberna: In Taberna Quando Sumus (03:10)
Concludes the section with a hym to the benificial amenities and well-being of the tavern. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Cour D'Amours: Amor Volat Undique (03:51)
The work's longest section is dedicated to Love.\nThe soprano stikes the keynote with her contention that to be without a lover is rotten luck, the female voices nodding their agreement in chorus. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Cour D'Amours: Dies, Nox Et Omnia (02:22)
Is in the nature of a corresponding ''cri de coeur'' from the baritone whose object of desire is indefferent to his suit. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Cour D'Amours: Stetit Puella (02:10)
As though taunting him, the soprano returns to fan the libido with a description of a tempting young thing who looks like a rosebud and wears a red skirt. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Cour D'Amours: Circa Mea Pectora (02:13)
Evocative of the yearning one feels for a lover, and, on the assumption that such desires have been fulfilled. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Cour D'Amours: Si Puer Cum Puellula (01:00)
Celebrates the fun to be had in bed, particulary when modest scruples have been flung off with the clothing. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Cour D'Amours: Veni, Veni, Venias (01:01)
The natural consequence is a fevered exhortation to surrender to the ecstasies of love-making ... - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Cour D'Amours: In Trutina (02:15)
... quickly supplanted by capitulation, though not before a token moral conflict between chastity and desire has heightened the suspense. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Cour D'Amours: Tempus Est Iocundum (02:25)
Serving almost as an interlude - a recapitulation of all that has gone before. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Cour D'Amours: Dulcissime (00:36)
... the onset of spring, the rising of the sap, the boiling over of emotions ... - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Blanzifor Et Helena: Ave Formosissima (02:16)
... after the hibernation of Winter. - Carl Orff (LSO Conducted by Richard Hickox) - Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi; O Fortuna (02:56)
In praise of Fortune giving voice to the fickleness of fate and fortune and inviting only the most welcome of each to preside over proceedings.
