Carl Orff: Carmina Burana [Import]

On this CD:

1. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra
Composed by Carl Orff
Performed by Salzburg Mozart Orchestra with Richard Brunner, Gerda Hartman, Rudolf Knoll
Conducted by Kurt Prestel

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana, Music, Rudolf Knoll, Carl Orff, Kurt Prestel, Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg, Gerda Hartman, Richard Brunner, Cantata, Choral, Classical, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio
Carmina Burana
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Mysterious and Rousing
 Carmina Burana
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Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00017LVLO
Release Date: 2004-01-06

Tracks:

  1. Wheel of Fortune [O Fortuna from Carmina Burana]
  2. Wounds of Fate [Fortune Plango]
  3. Face of Spring [Veris Leta Facies]
  4. Sunrise [Omnia Sol Temperat]
  5. Welcome [Ecce Gratum]
  6. Dance [Tanz Mix: Ich Schau D]
  7. Sweetest Boy [Dulcissime]
  8. If the Whole World Was Mine [Were Diu Werlt]
  9. Boiling Rage [Estuans Interius]
  10. Roasted Swan [Olim Lacus]
  11. In the Tavern [In Taberna]
  12. Love Flies Everywhere [Amor Valat]
  13. Young Girl [Stetit Puella]
  14. Come, My Beauty [Veni Veni Venias]
  15. Lovers [Blanziflor et Helena]
  16. Wheel of Fortune [O Fortuna from Carmina Burana]

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Mysterious and Rousing.......2006-05-02

I bought Carmina Burana on cassette tape when it was first issued after hearing it at a local music store. While I was listening, I had no idea that it was Ray Manzarek but thought that it would be an interesting addition and conversation piece for my music collection, and so it was. Certainly no one ever guessed that ex-Doors keyboardist Manzarek was responsible for this strange-sounding music! The listing here says this is Doug Hodges' work, but Hodges is just one of many musicians on this Manzarek project.
Well, that cassette wore out years ago and I spent a lot of time looking for it online to no avail. As many out of print CDs are being re-mastered and reissued, I recently thought to try again. And voila, there it was!
I read a review of the unremastered edition in which the reviewer said he thought the CD was cheesy and reeked of the 1980s. Well, everyone hears things differently, but he gave me the impression that he was hoping to hear some Doors-type rock and roll music when he bought it. If you are looking for that, well that is not on this CD. What is here is some of the most mysterious and rousing music you are likely to hear in the pop idiom! This is a great road-trip recording and also a great CD to listen to as heavy thunderstorms pound everything around you.
Ray Manzarek has taken German composer Carl Orff's music to the poetry known as the Carmina Burana and modernized it. And despite the modernization, it retains a distinctly medieval feel. My opinion is that the project works. The often-strident Latin chorus and the instrumental arrangements are inspirational to say the least. Even my father and some of his friends like it!
Now I have heard Manzarek's Carmina Burana used as a backdrop to a TV show about Satanism, but there is nothing Satanic about the Carmina Burana. It is merely a song cycle celebrating the sweetness of life and lamenting its vagaries.
With Carmina Burana, Ray Manzarek shows a wider range of talent than I would have ever expected. If you are looking for something unusual in music and are open to something vastly different from most of what you hear in the world of pop, then Carmina Burana may be for you. Put this on for your friends and they will be as surprised as mine were when they learn whose album it is!

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