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Okay, the CD bins aren’t exactly screaming for yet another Carmina Burana, but this performance is excellent–fresh, exciting, and with a sensational baritone soloist in
Carl Orff’s Prometheus completes his trilogy of Greek tragedies, the two earlier works being Oedipus the Tyrant and Antigone. This is the only one actually
Announcing the return of what we used to call “Orff Orph!” this is in reality Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, rescored, cut, and reorganized by Carl Orff for
This reissue of Orff’s “original authorized recordings” of these two sequels to Carmina burana is much more successful than the same forces’ 1973 performance of
Listening to Daniel Harding’s traversal of Carmina Burana you get the impression of a project long on obligation and short on inspiration. O Fortuna starts
I never thought I’d find myself wanting to review a recording of Orff’s Carmina Burana, but this one with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra caught
This disc is a freak show. When I was in high school, our all-state chorus (Connecticut) did Carmina Burana in its reduced version for two
Richard Hickox already has recorded Carmina Burana with the LSO forces (last available on Regis). That was a version of no special distinction, and neither
You want to like this performance: it’s bold, and it’s gutsy at the start of O Fortuna; but in that same opening song the problems
A suite for symphonic band based on Carmina Burana isn’t as silly as it sounds. Orff’s scoring has the strings basically along for the ride:
