Richard Hickox, LSO – Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (2008) [FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana – Richard Hickox, LSO (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 60:40 minutes | 1,1 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded live at the Barbican Centre in November 2007, Richard Hickox conducts Carl Orff’s immensely popular dramatic cantata Carmina Burana with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and soloists, Barry Banks, Laura Claycomb and Christopher Maltman. The score’s combination of gloriously infectious vulgarity interspersed with moments of genuine beauty has assured it an unquestionable position as one of the most popular of all twentieth-century choral works.

Orff is reputed to have declared around the time of Carmina’s first performance, ‘Everything I have written to date, and which you have printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.’ He had a strong interest in theatrical presentations and conceived the work as a pageant. The idea came to Orff in 1935 when he encountered an edition of medieval songs edited by the poet Johann Schmeller. The vivid and colourful songs were those sung by the goliards – hedonistic students and traveling monks who celebrated their riotous pursuits in bawdy and profane poetry. The 24 ‘cantiones profanae’ chosen by Orff were translated and the composer set them to music for three vocal soloists, three choirs and a large orchestra featuring triple woodwind, two pianos and no fewer than five percussionists.

Tracklist:
01 – Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna
02 – Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Fortune plango vulnera
03 – Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere: Veris leta facies
04 – Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere: Omnia sol temperat
05 – Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere: Ecce gratum
06 – Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Tanz
07 – Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Floret Silva
08 – Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Chramer, gip die varwe mir
09 – Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Reie
10 – Carmina Burana: Uf dem anger: Were diu 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. Cour d’amours: Amor volat undique
16 – Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Dies, nox et omnia
17 – Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Stetit puella
18 – Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Circa mea pectora
19 – Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Si puer cum puellula
20 – Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Veni, veni, venias
21 – Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: In trutina
22 – Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Tempus est iocundum
23 – Carmina Burana: III. Cour d’amours: Dulcissime
24 – Carmina Burana: Blanziflor et Helena: Ave formosissima
25 – Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna

Musicians:
Laura Claycomb – soprano
Barry Banks – tenor
Christopher Maltman – baritone
Tiffin Boys’ Choir – Simon Toyne: chorus master
London Symphony Chorus – Joseph Cullen: chorus director
London Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Nemtanu – guest leader
Conducted by Richard Hickox.

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