Carmina Burana

Album by Carl Orff & The Philadelphia Orchestra & Eugene Ormandy

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata by the German composer Carl Orff, composed in 1935–1936 and first performed in 1937. The work combines large-scale choruses, orchestra and vocal soloists in a rhythmically driven, modal style drawing on medieval texts and folk-like melodies, and it marked a pivotal moment in Orff's career as a shift towards stage works that emphasised rhythm and elemental theatrical forces in mid-20th-century music.

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  1. 1.
    Carmina Burana: Fortuna imperatrix mundi: "O Fortuna"
    2:44
  2. 2.
    Carmina Burana: Fortuna imperatrix mundi: "Fortune plango vulnera"
    2:40
  3. 3.
    Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere: "Veris leta facies"
    3:27
  4. 4.
    Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere: "Omnia sol temperat"
    1:48
  5. 5.
    Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere: "Ecce gratum"
    2:35
  6. 6.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: Tanz
    1:37
  7. 7.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: "Floret silva"
    3:16
  8. 8.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: "Chramer, gip die varwe mir"
    3:13
  9. 9.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: Reie
    1:51
  10. 10.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: "Swaz hie gat umbe" / "Chume, chum, geselle min!" / "Swaz hie gat umbe"
    2:31
  11. 11.
    Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: "Were diu werlt alle min"
    0:55
  12. 12.
    Carmina Burana: II. In taberna: "Estuans interius"
    2:13
  13. 13.
    Carmina Burana: II. In taberna: "Olim lacus colueram"
    3:32
  14. 14.
    Carmina Burana: II. In taberna: "Ego sum abbas"
    1:38
  15. 15.
    Carmina Burana: II. In taberna: "In taberna quando sumus"
    3:11
  16. 16.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'Amours: "Amor volat undique"
    3:03
  17. 17.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'Amours: "Dies, nox et omnia"
    2:11
  18. 18.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'Amours: "Stetit puella"
    1:51
  19. 19.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'Amours: "Circa mea pectora"
    2:09
  20. 20.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'Amours: "Si puer cum puellula"
    1:01
  21. 21.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'Amours: "Veni, veni, venias"
    1:03
  22. 22.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'Amours: "In trutina"
    2:08
  23. 23.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'Amours: "Tempus est iocundum"
    2:16
  24. 24.
    Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'Amours: "Dulcissime"
    0:39
  25. 25.
    Carmina Burana: Blanziflor et Helena: "Ave formosissima"
    1:48
  26. 26.
    Carmina Burana: Fortuna imperatrix mundi: "O Fortuna"
    2:44

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