Carmina Burana

composer: Carl Orff
text compilation: Carl Orff

Cantiones profanae

cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis
für Sopran, Tenor, Bariton, gemischten Chor, Knabenchor und Orchester

Premiere: June 8, 1937 Frankfurt/Main, Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main, Opernhaus (D) · Conductor: Bertil Wetzelsberger · Staging: Oskar Wälterlin · Costumes: Ludwig Sievert · Stage design: Ludwig Sievert (scenic performance)
Orchestra instrumentation: 3 (2. u. 3. auch Picc.) · 3 (3. auch Engl. Hr.) · 3 (1. auch Es-Klar., 2. u. 3. auch Bassklar.) · 2 · Kfg. - 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 - P. S. (3 Glsp. · 2 ant. Zimb. · Xyl. · 3 Gl. · Röhrengl. · Trgl. · 4 Beck. [Beckenpaar u. hg. Beck.] · Tamt. · Tamb. · 2 kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. · Ratsche · Kast. · Schellen) (5 Spieler) - 2 Klav. · Cel. - Str.
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 65' 0''
Year of composition: 1936
Language: Latin - Middle High German - Old French
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This must be the most famous choral work of the 20th century. Totally original and still fresh, Carmina Burana has been endlessly admired and copied, and is one of the very few classical works that anyone can recognise, and yet it never fails to shock and delight audiences worldwide.

Content

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: 1. O Fortuna - 2. Fortune plango vulnera - 
I Primo Vere: 3. Veris leta facies
4. Omnia sol temperat
5. Ecce gratum -
Uf dem Anger: 6. Tanz
7. Floret silva
8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir - 9. Reie: Swaz hie gat umbe
Chume, chum geselle min
Swaz hie gat umbe - 10. Were diu werlt alle min - 
II In Taberna: 11. Estuans interius
12. Olim lacus colueram
13. Ego sum abbas
14. In taberna quando sumus - 
III Cour d’Amour: 15. Amor volat undique
16. Dies, nox  et omnia
17. Stetit puella
18. Circa mea pectora
19. Si puer cum puellula
20. Veni, veni, venias
21. In trutina
22. Tempus est iocundum
23. Dulcissime -
Blanziflor et Helena:
24. Ave formosissima - 
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: 25. O Fortuna

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Recordings

Carmina Burana  (2011)

Carl Orff

Patricia Petibon (soprano) · Hans-Werner Bunz (tenor) · Christian Gerhaher (baritone) · Choir & Symphony Orchestra of the Bayerischer Rundfunk · Daniel Harding (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON DG 477 8778 5
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Eastwood Chorale - Ian Walker Sweyne School - Rayleigh - United Kingdom

May 28th, 2012

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock - Opernchor des Volkstheaters Rostock; Singakademie Rostock; Kinderchor der Singakademie Rostock - Florian Krumpöck Theaterzelt - Rostock - Germany

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Orchestre symphonique du Conservatoire de Colmar - La Cantèle d'Eguisheim; Choeur des enseignants de Ribeauvillé; Pré-Maîtrise de Colmar - E. Maegey Dominicains de Haute-Alsace - Guebwiller - France

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Nashville Symphony - Giancarlo Guerrero Laura Turner Hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center - Nashville, TN - United States of America

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Eberhard Fritsche Freilichtbühne am Roten Tor - Augsburg - Germany

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Guido Mancusi Volksoper - Wien - Austria

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Guido Mancusi Volksoper - Wien - Austria

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - Marin Alsop Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall - Baltimore, MD - United States of America

Other editions

ED 85 = score
ED 4920-1 = soprano / alto
ED 4920-2 = tenor / bass
ED 4920-10 = percussion
ED 4920-20 = choral score
BN 3633-1 = libretto with German translation
ETP 8000 = Eulenburg pocket score
ED 2877 = vocal score
ED 4920 = score (reduced version, piano part)
ED 11968 = libretto with English translation

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