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: A well put together reading, but where's the fun?
Rating: 4 Stars
The crowd loves Carmina Burana as much as serious musicians disdain it, and the whole point is to raise the roof. Intrinsically Orff's idiom is pop crossover from Stravinsky (primarily) with college glee club tunes. In live performance the work can be as much fun as the circus, but not here. I've rarely heard such a poker-faced reading. Thielemann usually wears an emotional mask; in this case it's imprenetrable. You can't tell which songs are erotic, joyous, parodistic, or mock reverent. Those qualities come out vividly in readings by Jochum, Fruhbeck de Burgos, and Stokowksi.
For all that, Thielemann knows how to marshal large forces, and everyone concerned does well. Nothing drags or sounds turgid in texture. Simon Keenlyside is especially smooth and sensitive in his solos (if that's what you want--parody is beyond him) and fantastically in tunje when asked to sing in falsetto. Tenor David Kuebler does a brave job reaching the in excelssis high notes of the roasted goose's lament. Soprano Christiane Oelze, assigned another stratospheric song, applies a lovely tone and never shrieks. In all, these three are the best thing about the performance. If only everybody could have had more fun. This isns't the B minor Mass, after all.
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 clich?s 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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