Orff - Carmina Burana / Oelze, Keenlyside, Kuebler; Thielemann
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1999-08-10
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi, No 1: O Fortuna
- Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi, No 2: Fortune Plango Vulnera
- Primo Vere, No 3: Veris Leta Facies
- Primo Vere, No 4: Omnia Sol Temperat
- Primo Vere, No 5: Ecce Gratum
- Uf Dem Anger, No 6: Tanz
- Uf Dem Anger, No 7: Floret/Silva
- Uf Dem Anger, No 8: Chramer, Gip Die Varwe Mir
- Uf Dem Anger, No 9: Reie/Swaz Hie Gat Umbe/Chume, Chum Geselle Min
- Uf Dem Anger, No 10: Were Diu Werlt Alle Min
- In Taberna, No 11: Estuans Interius
- In Taberna, No 12: Olim Lacus Colueram
- In Taberna, No 13: Ego Sum Abbas
- In Taberna, No 14: In Taberna Quando Sumus
- Cour D'Amours, No 15 : Amor Volat Undique
- Cour D'Amours, No 16: Dies, Nox et Omnia
- Cour D'Amours, No 17: Stetit Puella
- Cour D'Amours, No 18: Circa Mea Pectora
- Cour D'Amours, No 19: Si Puer cum Puellula
- Cour D'Amours, No 20: Veni, Venim, Venias
- Cour D'Amours, No 21: In Trutina
- Cour D'Amours, No 22: Tempus est Iocundum
- Cour D'Amours, No 23 Dulcissime
- Blanziflor et Helena, No 24: Ave Formosissima
- Cour D'Amours, No 25: O Fortuna
Music reviews of Orff - Carmina Burana / Oelze, Keenlyside, Kuebler; Thielemann
Music Review: Beautiful, But Low-To-Medium on the Voltage and Prurience Meters
Rating: 4 Stars
A controlled, soft-edged performance with many affecting slow sections and some meltingly beautiful solos, especially from soprano Oelze and tenor Kuebler. Very large in scale and overall low-to-medium on the voltage and prurience meters. Outstanding recording with great depth, breadth, and vividness. Thumbs up!
My very first exposure to the work was the popular Ozawa/BSO LP on RCA [Orff: Carmina Burana]. It, too, transformed Orff's paean to medieval carnality from the soundtrack of a traveling frat party to that of Romeo and Juliet -- removed from what the likes of Jochum and Sawallisch made of it in previous decades.
Ironically, Thielemann in '99 leads the same forces as Jochum had over thirty years earlier...at least in name. Jochum's famous '60s stereo recording is still available, also on DG; it's seemingly been dubbed by many critics with that appellation I loathe - "definitive" [Carl Orff: Carmina Burana]. I can certainly enjoy and recommend either approach, though one must assume Jochum's is far more in tune with Orff's theatrical pre-war Berlin "cabaret" idiom -- snarly, lewd, and often comical.
Description of Orff - Carmina Burana / Oelze, Keenlyside, Kuebler; Thielemann
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 MayGeneral CDs
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