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Description

Description

On the occasion of his 100th birthday on July 10, 1995 WERGO has published Carl Orff's "TRIONFI" which consists of the three works "Carmina Burana", "Catulli Carmina" and "Trionfi di Afrodite".
"Carmina Burana" was the first work that could bring Orff's intentions and desires, which had until that point existed pluralistically side by side, into a tonality - the search for compact, elementary forms of expression, the joy in the discovery and revitalization of old, longforgotten arts, and finally the tendency toward drama, theater, to the action on stage. 
For his setting of "Catulli Carmina" (Songs of Catullus), Orff was inspired by the famous distich "Odi et amo". He called the structure of the work a "double puzzle play between youth and old age, Eros and Sexus". 
In the third part, "Trionfo di Afrodite" (Triumph of Aphrodite), the scene shows the cultic ritual of a marriage celebration in an imaginary world of antiquity, without any more specific gographical or temporal indications. 
Though "Carmina Burana" is among the most performed stage works of our time, and concert performances are too numerous to count, the "Catulli Carmina" is encountered far less often, usually in combination with the more popular "Carmina Burana". The third part of the cycle is still a rarity. This is even more true of complete performances of "TRIONFI", a cycle that came into being over a period of two decades, and which attempts to conjure up a thousand-year-old unity of European musical theater.

Content

TRIONFI. Trittico teatrale: - Carmina Burana. Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis - Catulli Carmina. Ludi scaenici - Trionfo di Afrodite. Concerto scenico