Ray Manzarek - Carmina Burana
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Artist: Ray ManzarekEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-04-13
Music Label: MSI:UNIVERSAL/A&M
Soundtracks:
- The Wheel Of Fortune (O Fortuna)
- The Wounds Of Fate (Fortune Plango)
- The Face Of Spring (Veris Leta Facies)
- Sunrise (Omnia Sol Temperat)
- Welcome (Ecce Gratum)
- The Dance (Tanz)
- Sweetest Boy (Dulcissime)
- If The Whole World Was Mine (Were Diu Werlt)
- Boiling Rage (Estuans Interius)
- The Roasted Swan (Olim Lacus)
- In The Tavern (In Taberna)
- Loves Flies Everywhere (Amor Volat)
- A Young Girl
- Come My Beauty (Veni Veni Venias)
- The Lovers (Blanziflor Et Helena)
- The Wheel Of Fortune (O Fortuna)
Music reviews of Carmina Burana
Music Review: ray, you're really good, now stop trying so hard
Rating: 1 Stars
Philip Glass and his reputation notwithstanding, this is quite dreadful, unless you do not know the original, or do not care for classical music. The best thing that can be said for it is that it is not a tortuous attempt at a place in "serious music" usually embarked upon by wanna-be's such as McCartney. In fact, it positively exudes genius: naturally, since it is one of the most famous masterpieces of the twentieth century, only by Carl Orff, not by Ray Manzarek. I don't believe that excellent adaptations are not possible, be it in music or theatre, but I do know that they are few and far between, and this is not one of them. Here and there, there are glimpses of what it might have been, if properly thought out: clear, atmospheric piano playing by Manzarek--whose abilities at the keyboard are not disputed--with very few frills around it; listen to "Sunrise," for example. However, when everybody kicks in, the derisive excesses of 60s prog rockers come to mind; Keith Emerson --remember him? -- was also a brilliant keyboardist, but what he did with his talent often sounded like a musical equivalent of Roy and His Tiger Stun Las Vegas. Fortunately, Manzarek never gets quite that awful. But he tries.
You could argue that Orff himself made a huge leap in tradition when he set seven hundred years-old (rather blasphemous) texts to what is essentially late romantic music, some of it very bombastic (you might recognize the opening theme from such Goth movies as Excalibur, where it fits very nicely). However, if good ideas were all it took, we'd all be richer. But you either hit the nail on the head or you don't: Orff did, Manzarek didn't.
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Description of Carmina Burana
1983 solo album from The Doors keyboardist. Produced by Philip Glass and Kurt Munkacsi. Deleted in the US.Classic Rock CDs
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