Carmina Burana

Orff (Artist), John Berendt (Artist), Dorati (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Decca
• ASIN: B00001P4RG
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #523,227 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna

2. Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Fortune plango vulnera

3. Carmina Burana: I Primo Vere: Veris leta facies

4. Carmina Burana: I Primo Vere: Omnia Sol temperat

5. Carmina Burana: I Primo Vere: Ece gratum

6. Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: Tanz

7. Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: Floret silva nobilis

8. Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: Chramer, gip die varwe mir

9. Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: Reie

10. Carmina Burana: Uf dem Anger: Were dium werlt alle min

11. Carmina Burana: II In Taberna: Estuans interius

12. Carmina Burana: II In Taberna: Olim lacus colueram

13. Carmina Burana: II In Taberna: Ego sum abbas

14. Carmina Burana: II In Taberna: In taberna quando sumus

15. Carmina Burana: III Cours d'amour: Amor volat unidque

16. Carmina Burana: III Cours d'amour: Dies, nox et omnia

17. Carmina Burana: III Cours d'amour: Stetit puella

18. Carmina Burana: III Cours d'amour: Circa mea pectora

19. Carmina Burana: III Cours d'amour: Si puer cum puellula

20. Carmina Burana: III Cours d'amour: Veni, veni, venias

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh My God, January 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Carmina Burana (Audio CD)

You have never heard music, or at least felt it until you have experienced Orff's Carmina Burana. No matter your musical taste, you will feel this piece. It will resonate throughout you. This is the best, by far, recording of this spectacular choral triumph offered by Amazon. It was composed in 1936 from poems written in the 13th century by, "vagabond students, runaway monks, and defrocked priests." To make it even better it is sung, almost entirely, in Latin. You will come alive when you here this.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dramatic Dorati, March 3, 2000

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Mark McCue (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carmina Burana (Audio CD)

For a performance so outstanding, it's odd that this isn't better-known, for musical and sonic reasons.

Originally one of those quirky London Phase-4 issues, this CD seems to have been re-mixed. The chorus is in better balance here, and the soloists' considerable contributions come through very strongly.

Dorati was always tops in productions like this, and he and his forces sound like they're having a very good time...

...which is Orff's point, isn't it?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best, June 2, 2007

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Classic Music Lover (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carmina Burana (Audio CD)

This recording dates back a few years -- like 25 or more. But it's held its own with many a newer rendition falling well short of Maestro Dorati's exciting musicianship, backed by top-notch singers and a very good orchestra and chorus. I know of only one recording made since this one that matches this version for overall effect -- Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus on Telarc ... the others just don't make the grade. I notice this has been reissued on CD in as many as half-a-dozen incarnations; I guess the record industry knows a good performance when it has one!