Carmina Burana Notes Download

With its mixture of funny, bawdy and hedonistic texts taken from anonymous poets of the Middle Ages, twentieth century German composer Carl Orff created in Carmina Burana a choral work of powerful pagan sensuality and direct physical excitement. The pulsating rhythms, colourful orchestration and dynamic choruses, contrasted with moments of sensuous innocence, have taken Carmina Burana into the world of ‘pop classics’.

Ford Eec Iv Tuning Software. The work has also provided the backdrop for countless international television adverts, and for the films Excalibur, Natural Born Killers and Badlands. Marin Alsop also conducts a fine, distinctive reading of Carl Orff’s most popular work, brilliantly recorded. The recording heightens the impact of the reading with its exceptionally wide dynamic range, so that pianissimos are hushed and intimate, set against great choral outbursts, with the Bournemouth Chorus and the Youth Choirs providing a powerful mainstay to the whole performance. Much the most important of the soloists is the baritone, here the dark, cleanly focused Markus Eiche, a great strength, while the tenor, Tom Randle, gives a delightful characterization is falsetto for the roast swan sequence, and Claire Rutter sings with perfect purity in the radiant soprano solos in the final section. A top bargain recommendation.'