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This is a terrifically exciting performance of Orff’s popular chestnut. Tempos are swift, from the opening “O fortuna” onward. The soloists are uniformly excellent, especially
This lively, lusty, stunningly recorded new Carmina Burana goes right to the top of the heap, sharing pride of place with the celebrated performances of
There’s nothing even remotely ribald about this Carmina Burana. Eugene Ormandy’s sexless conducting ensures the music has little of its usual bite, an impression reinforced
Billed as “Carl Orff’s Original Authorized Recording”, this 1973 performance was blown away by the similarly authorized Jochum on DG. The sound is good but
Hermann Scherchen always could be counted on to deliver exciting if idiosyncratic performances of music ranging from the Baroque to the avant-garde of his day.
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos’ justly admired Carmina Burana has held up well over the years, and with good reason. It’s well sung, with heartfelt and
Eugen Jochum’s first Carmina Burana is a major disappointment sonically, even by 1952 audio standards. The mono recording (ignore the CD’s incorrect labeling as “stereo”)
Gaetano Delogu’s dramatic, rubato-laced presentation of “O Fortuna” bodes well for this live performance of Carmina Burana (from 1995), but it’s exactly here that you
This latest reissue of a reissue re-couples Stoki’s Carmina Burana, formerly attached to Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, with Loeffler’s A Pagan Poem, last seen alongside Gliere’s
This disc does not deserve to be included in the “Philips 50”–supposedly a selection of some of the finest recordings to have appeared on the
