Carmina Burana

Album by Carl Orff & Lenneke Ruiten & Christoph Genz & Stephan Genz & GrauSchumacher Piano Duo & SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart & Rupert Huber

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata by German composer Carl Orff, composed in 1935–36 and first performed in 1937. Scored for large orchestra, chorus and soloists, it sets medieval Latin and Middle High German texts in a style marked by driving rhythms, chant-like modal melodies and prominent percussion, and it established Orff's signature emphasis on rhythm and elemental vocal writing, securing the work's place in 20th-century choral-orchestral repertoire.

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  1. 1.
    Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna
    2:40
  2. 2.
    Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Fortune plango vulnera
    2:54
  3. 3.
    Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere: Veris leta facies
    4:04
  4. 4.
    Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere: Omnia sol temperat
    2:09
  5. 5.
    Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere: Ecce gratum
    2:53
  6. 6.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Tanz
    1:39
  7. 7.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Floret silva
    3:19
  8. 8.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Chramer, gip die varwe mir
    3:01
  9. 9.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Reie
    4:10
  10. 10.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Were diu werlt alle min
    0:57
  11. 11.
    Carmina Burana: II. In taberna: Estuans interius
    2:25
  12. 12.
    Carmina Burana: II. In taberna: Olim lacus colueram
    3:30
  13. 13.
    Carmina Burana: II. In taberna: Ego sum abbas
    1:30
  14. 14.
    Carmina Burana: II. In taberna: In taberna quando sumus
    3:12
  15. 15.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Amor volat undique
    3:00
  16. 16.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Dies, nox et omnia
    2:45
  17. 17.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Stetit puella
    1:48
  18. 18.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Circa mea pectora
    2:25
  19. 19.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Si puer cum puellula
    0:55
  20. 20.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Veni, veni, venias
    0:58
  21. 21.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: In trutina
    1:52
  22. 22.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Tempus est iocundum
    2:20
  23. 23.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Dulcissime
    0:49
  24. 24.
    Carmina Burana: Blanziflor et Helena: Ave formosissima
    1:45
  25. 25.
    Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna
    2:42

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