Carl Orff – Carmina Burana – Rattle [2005 EMI Classics][FLAC]

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

Tracklist
01. I. O Fortuna
02. II. Fortuna plango vulnera
03. III. Veris leta facies
04. IV. Omnia Sol temperat
05. V. Ecce gratum
06. VI. Tanz
07. VII. Floret silva nobilis
08. VIII. Chramer, gip die varwe mir
09. IX. Reie – Swaz hie gat umbe – Chume, chum geselle min -Swaz hie gat umbe
10. X. Were diu werlt alle min
11. XI. Estuans interius
12. XII. Olim lacus colueram
13. XIII. Ego sum abbas
14. XIV. In taberna quando sumus
15. XV. Amor volat undique
16. XVI. Dies, nox et omnia
17. XVII. Stetit puella
18. XVIII. Circa mea pectora
19. XIX. Si puer cum puella
20. XX. Veni, veni, venias
21. XXI. In trutina
22. XXII. Tempus est iocundum
23. XXIII. Dulcissime
24. XXIV. Ave formosissima
25. XXV. O Fortuna

Sally Matthews, Lawrence Brownlee, Christian Gerhaher
Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey
Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle

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