Carmina Burana

Album by Carl Orff & Cantillation

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata by German composer Carl Orff, premiered in 1937. The work uses large forces — chorus, soloists and orchestra — featuring driving rhythms, modal melodies and repetitive ostinato figures drawn from medieval texts, and it represents a pivotal, rhythm-focused development in Orff's output and in mid-20th-century choral-orchestral repertoire.
First released: 2002

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    O Fortuna (O Fortune)
    2:31
  2. 2.
    Fortune Plango Vulnera (I Bemoan the Woulds of Fortune)
    2:50
  3. 3.
    Veris Leta Facies (The Merry Face of Spring)
    4:16
  4. 4.
    Omnia Sol Temperat (The Sun Warms Everything)
    2:32
  5. 5.
    Ecce Gratum (Behold, the Pleasant Spring)
    2:46
  6. 6.
    Tanz (dance)
    1:37
  7. 7.
    Floret Silva (The Woods Are Burgeoning)
    3:05
  8. 8.
    Chramer, Grip Die Varwe Mir (Shopkeeper, Give Me Colour)
    3:18
  9. 9.
    Reie (Round-dance)
    1:46
  10. 10.
    Swaz Hie Gat Umbe (Those Who Go Round and Round)
    0:30
  11. 11.
    Chume, Chum Geselle Min (Come, Come My Love)
    1:51
  12. 12.
    Swaz Hie Gat Umbe (Those Who Go Round and Round)
    0:30
  13. 13.
    Were Diu Werlt Alle Min (Were the Would All Mine)
    0:57
  14. 14.
    Estuans Interius (Burning Inside)
    2:20
  15. 15.
    Olim Lacus Colueram (Once I Lived on the Lakes)
    3:34
  16. 16.
    Ego Sum Abbas (I Am the Abbot)
    1:41
  17. 17.
    In Taberna Quando Sumus (When We Are in the Tavern)
    3:12
  18. 18.
    Amor Volat Undique (Cupid Files Everywhere)
    3:25
  19. 19.
    Dies, Nox Et Omnia (Day, Night and Everything)
    3:04
  20. 20.
    Stetit Puella (A Girl Stood)
    1:53
  21. 21.
    Circa Mea Pectora (In My Heart)
    2:14
  22. 22.
    Si Puer Cum Puellula (If a Boy With a Girl)
    1:00
  23. 23.
    Veni, Veni, Venias (Come, Come, o Come)
    0:56
  24. 24.
    In Trutina (In the Balance)
    2:18
  25. 25.
    Tempus Est Iocundum (This Is the Joyful Time)
    2:24
  26. 26.
    Dulcissime (Sweetest One)
    0:51
  27. 27.
    Ave Formosissima (Hail, Most Beautiful One)
    1:38
  28. 28.
    O Fortuna
    2:36

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