”Si puer cum puellula moraretur in cellula, felix coniunctio. Amore suscrescente, partier e medio avulso procul tedio, fit ludus ineffabilis membris lacertis labiis”
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Advantages: A fine mixture of gothic, medieval and modern music and words. You will know some of the themes - it will repay study. This is a superb rendition. Disadvantages: None
”Si puer cum puellula moraretur in cellula, felix coniunctio. Amore suscrescente, partier e medio avulso procul tedio, fit ludus ineffabilis membris lacertis labiis”
I decided to try my hand at a review of a piece of classical music. My CD library has a fair smattering of conventional pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikowsy and Brahms. Of course you will have known by now my interest in Gilbert and Sullivan, but I have chosen instead to look at ... ...Burana” (Songs, secular and profane). It is one of those works that has been subject to “borrowing” from the mass media and its main theme will be extremely well known. However, the whole work does repay some study and is well worth a listen.
It has a curious history with shades of dissolute monks, lusty wenches, inns filled with peasant fare and mugs overflowing with wine. For many years its words were not translated from the original language ...
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Excerpt(s): 26. Fortuna imperatrix mundi - O Fortuna 2. O Fortune plango vulnera 3. Primo vere - Veris leta facies 4. Omnia sol temperat 5. Ecce gratium 6. Uf dem anger - Tanz 7. Floret silva 8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir 9. Reie 10. Swaz hie gat umbe_Chume, chum geselle min 11. Were diu werlt alle min 12. In taberna - Estuans interius 13. Olim lacus colueram 14. Ego sum abbas 15. In taberna quando sumus 16. Cour d'amours - Amor volat undique 17. Dies, nox et omnia 18. Stetit puella 19. Circa mea pectora 20. Si puer cum puellula 21. Veni, veni, venias 22. In trutina 23. Tempus est iocundum 24. Dulcissime 25. Blanziflor et Helena - Ave formosissima
Composer: Carl Orff (1895 - 1982)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1936
Date Recorded: 1992
Main Performer: Eric Chumachenko (Piano)
Opera Part(s): Eric Chumachenko
Location of Work Recording: Salzburg
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