Orff: Carmina Burana
List Price:
Our Price: $4.90
You Save: $14.08 (74%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1999-08-10
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna
- Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Fortune plango vulnera
- I. Primo Vere: Veris leta facies
- I. Primo Vere: Omnia Sol temperat
- I. Primo Vere: Ecce gratum
- Uf dem Anger: Tanz
- Uf dem Anger: Floret silva nobilis
- Uf dem Anger: Chramer, gip die varwe mir
- Uf dem Anger: Reie - Swaz hie gat umbe - Chume, chum, geselle min! - Swaz hie gat umbe
- Uf dem Anger: Were diu werlt alle min
- II. In Taberna: Estuans interius
- II. In Taberna: Olim lacus colueram
- II. In Taberna: Ego sum abbas
- II. In Taberna: In taberna quando sumus
- III. Cour d'amours: Amor volat undique
- III. Cour d'amours: Dies, nox et omnia
- III. Cour d'amours: Stetit puella
- III. Cour d'amours: Circa mea pectora
- III. Cour d'amours: Si puer cum puellula
- III. Cour d'amours: Veni, veni, venias
- III. Cour d'amours: In trutina
- III. Cour d'amours: Tempus est iocundum
- III. Cour d'amours: Dulcissime
- Blanziflor et Helena: Ave, formosissima
- Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna
Music reviews of Orff: Carmina Burana
Music Review: Thielemann lets "Carmina" breathe
Rating: 4 Stars
One of the major complaints that I have heard about this recording is that there is not quite enough rhythmic emphasis for many peoples' tastes. Although Carmina Burana is certainly a piece with a very percussive nature, Theilemann allows more room for the music to flow organically, which is a pleasant break from the constantly incisive recordings that are more common. (Even Previn's recording, also on DG, is a good deal more harsh in the louder sections). The criticism of the caesuras between the first three bars of "O Fortuna" is only partially valid in that Orff does indicate breath marks between these statements (which are followed all-too rarely). However, perhaps this recording exaggerates them a bit.The entire first section is done very well. It is a nice break to not hear all of the Tanz done at breakneck speed for a change. Were diu werlt alle min sings out most jubilantly. Keenlyside's interpretation of Estuans interius and Ego Sum Abbas is effective, although the falsetto cadenzas in Dies, Nox et Omnia are a little heavy on the rubato. I generally prefer an Olim Lacus done by a countertenor or else the baritone soloist in falsetto (as was the case with the original performance), and find the plena voce version with a high tenor strained, although appropriately painful for a song sung by a roasted swan.The third section "Cour d'Amours" is the most different. Thielemann allows the melodic lines to flow and intertwine, especially in Amor Volat Undique, which is sung beautifully by the boy's choir. The soprano soloist, Ms. Oelze, does a fine job, although not quite as satisfying as Barbara Bonney's In Trutina, which remains my favorite moment in all of the Carminas I have heard. This is a recording that brings new light to a warhorse of a piece, and is well worth looking into. There are more "authoritative" accounts, including Jochum's recording with Janowitz and Fischer-Dieskau that was signed by the composer, but for a truly excellent performance with more introspection than usual, this is the way to go.
Description of Orff: Carmina Burana
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Every concert-season programmer can depend on Carmina Burana to bring down the house. Since its premiere in 1937, Carl Orff's theatrically vivid, earthy cantata setting of the medieval poetry of wandering minstrels has kept its extraordinarily popular status. Christian Thielemann's new recording by no means displaces the classic accounts by Jochum or Ormandy, but it dusts off many of the clichés that have gathered around Carmina and conveys an overarching, coherent vision that is frequently lacking in performance. Thielemann brings this triptych of scenes to life--springtime, the tavern, and the court of love--with an understanding of pleasure and pain as opposites of the same coin in each, so that the framing chorus to "Fortune, Empress of the World" carries tremendous weight. Contrasts between Orff's exuberant, Stravinsky-derived rhythmic vigor and the score's more introspective moments are favored, with subtle adjustments of tempo along the way. Rich percussive details as well as the choral body itself are sometimes obscured in the recorded sound (not nearly so bright or forward as in Previn's fine 1975 account), but one of this disc's great assets is its trio of soloists, including a fantastically expressive baritone in Simon Keenlyside and a ravishing portrayal by Christiane Oelze of the young girl in the tunic who comes to discover love. Thielemann allows them ample freedom to shape their phrases with the most varied meaning. This performance isn't interested solely in pumping up your metabolism, but in searing your heart as well. --Thomas May
Classical CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in Classical CDs
Winterscapesby London Philharmonic
Prophetic Voice; Published: 2000-07; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $2.75
Price in other shops:
The Queen, the Bear, & the Bumblebeeby Dini Petty
Children's Group; Published: 2001-03; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $13.38
Price in other shops:
Classical Kids - Beethoven Lives Upstairs CdrRelease date: 2000-04-05; Music CD
Best price: $24.98
Tchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos))by Malcolm Sinclair, Jeremy Siepmann
Naxos; Published: 2003-11; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $35.99
![Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS] Image](/images/Jose-Carreras-Jubileum-Concert-VHS-1584481471-X.jpg){kind=small}
Jose Carreras - Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS]Sling Shot; Release date: 2000-04-18; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $5.86
Price in other shops:
![Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS] Image](/images/Tchaikovsky-The-Nutcracker-Nureyev-Park-Royal-Ballet-VHS-156127092X-X.jpg){kind=small}
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-09-09; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $29.90
Price in other shops:
![Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS] Image](/images/Lonely-Town-Lonley-Street-Sergeant-Early-Dream-VHS-1561270857-X.jpg){kind=small}
Rambert Dance Company - Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-10-28; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
Winter Music: Composing the Northby John Luther Adams
Wesleyan; Published: 2004-11-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $25.27
Price in other shops:
![Puccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] Image](/images/Puccini-La-Fanciulla-del-West-Santi-Domingo-Neblett-Royal-Opera-Covent-Garden-VHS-0769720382-X.jpg){kind=small}
Puccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $6.38
Price in other shops:
![Verdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] Image](/images/Verdi-Falstaff-Giulini-Bruson-Ricciarelli-Nucci-Royal-Opera-Covent-Garden-VHS-0769720358-X.jpg){kind=small}
Verdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $12.95
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
Tales of OperaRelease date: 2007-09-25; Music CD
Best price: $6.78
Price in other shops:
Mozart: Don GiovanniNaxos OF America INC; Release date: 2009-05-26; Published: 2009-04-30; DVD
Best price: $29.22
Price in other shops:
Strauss: Four Last Songs / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraSTRAUSS,R.; Release date: 1996-01-23; Music CD
Best price: $7.11
Price in other shops:
Mozart - Don GiovanniRelease date: 2007-11-06; DVD
Best price: $15.13
Price in other shops:
Orff: Carmina BuranaRelease date: 1999-10-19; Music CD
Best price: $3.24
Price in other shops:
Orff: Carmina BuranaRelease date: 1991-10-11; Music CD
Best price: $13.99
Price in other shops:
Orff: Carmina BuranaRelease date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $10.93
Price in other shops:
Orff: Carmina BuranaRelease date: 1994-10-11; Music CD
Best price: $4.49
Price in other shops:
Carl Orff: Carmina BuranaORFF,C.; Release date: 1996-05-14; Music CD
Best price: $7.87
Price in other shops: