Orff: Carmina Burana Choir Orchestral & Concertos CHANDOS SACD

Orff: Carmina Burana

Show recording details

CHSA 5067

Orff: Carmina Burana

Running Time: 62:11

CD UPC: 0095115506721

Release Date: October 2008

Composer
Carl Orff

Solo soprano
Laura Claycomb

Tenor Voice tenor
Barry Banks

Baritone Voice baritone
Christopher Maltman

Choral
Tiffin Boys' Choir

Choral
London Symphony Chorus

Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor
Richard Hickox

Venue
Barbican Centre, London

Producer
Ralph Couzens

Engineer
Jonathan Stokes

Engineer
Neil Hutchinson

Genre:
Choir
Orchestral & Concertos

Buy SACD About Reviews Media Translate Notes

Buy SACD

Choral Music

Save 25% on our selection of Choral music.

(offer ends 10th January 2025 12 noon GMT)

Original Price: £12.50

Sale Price: £9.38

Our SACD's are hybrid and will play on most standard CD players

P&P for single unit's: UK=£2.4, EU=£9, World=£12

CARL ORFF

live recording

Carmina Burana

60:37

Cantiones profanae

cantoribus et choris cantandae

comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: 5:16

O Fortuna. Pesante - [ ] -

2:36

Fortune plango vulnera. [ ] - Più mosso

2:40

I. Primo vere: 23:01

Veris leta facies. [ ] - Poco più lento, tranquillo - A tempo, come prima -

3:54

Omnia Sol temperat. [ ] - Sempre molto rubato -

3:54

Ecce gratum. Con ampiezza - Quasi allegretto - Allegro molto -

2:43

Tanz. Pesante - Allegro - Un poco più lento - Più mosso -

1:44

Floret silva. [ ] - Poco più mosso - [ ] - Poco più mosso -

3:18

Chramer, gip die varwe mir. Quasi andante -

3:23

Reie. Andante poco esitante - Più andante -

4:51

Swaz hie gat umbe. Allegro molto -

Chume, chum, geselle min. [ ] -

Swas hie gat umbe. A tempo come prima -

10.

Were diu werlt alle min. Allegro molto

0:53

II. In Taberna: 10:38

11.

Estuans interius. Allegro molto -

2:28

12.

Olim lacus colueruam. [ ] -

3:35

13.

Ego sum abbas. [ ] -

1:29

14.

In taberna quando sumus. [ ] -

3:05

III. Cour d'amours: 18:31

15.

Amor volat undique. Largo - Rubato flessibile - [ ] -

3:16

16.

Dies, nox et omnia. [ ] -

2:07

17.

Stetit puella. [ ] -

1:49

18.

Circa mea pectora. [ ] - Più mosso -

2:04

19.

Si puer cum puellula. Allegro buffo - Allegro molto -

0:58

20.

Veni, veni, venias. Allegro -

1:01

21.

In trutina. [ ] -

2:17

22.

Tempus est iocundum. Allegro molto - Più lento -

2:22

23.

Dulcissime. [ ] -

0:43

Blanziflor et Helena

24.

Ave formosissima. [ ] -

1:50

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: 3:11

25.

O Fortuna. Pesante - [ ] -

3:11

Solo: Laura Claycomb soprano

Choral: Tiffin Boys' Choir

Choral: London Symphony Chorus

Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Richard Hickox

17 and 18 November 2007

About

CARL ORFF: CARMINA BURANA – LSO/HICKOX

This performance of Orff’s popular dramatic cantata Carmina burana was recorded live at the Barbican Centre in November 2007, Richard Hickox conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus with Laura Claycomb, Christopher Maltman and Barry Banks as the soloists. Music OMH wrote of the performance, ‘The London Symphony Orchestra performed the work with all the commitment and exuberance that one expects from them. The three soloists were outstanding, singing with a unified dynamic power and depth of expression that is rare to find today’. Orff is reputed to have declared to his publisher around the time of the work’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 score’s combination of gloriously infectious vulgarity interspersed with moments of genuine beauty has assured its unquestionable position as one of the most popular of twentieth-century choral works. Richard Hickox is interviewed on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In-Tune’ to tie in with the release.

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.
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.

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.

Please login to post a review

Reviews

Another Carmina? Yes, and totally justified as it happens. In large choral works like this one few conductors better Richard Hickox and sure enough the opening ‘O Fortuna’ is arresting: taut and tense in atmosphere, crisp in diction without self-conscious mannerism… Classic performances by André Previn and Frühbeck de Burgos are still available, but Hickox is at least their equal… overall this is a richly enjoyable performance of a much-recorded masterpiece

BBC Music Magazine

There has rarely been a trio of soloists as good as this, with Christopher Maltman’s charismatic Abbott, Barry Banks’s suitably strained roasted swan and the seductive tones of Laura Claycomb. Hickox conducts with his usual mastery of big works

The Telegraph

The Chandos engineers have worked wonders with the Barbican’s tricky acoustic, providing vivid sound allowing a wealth of orchestral detail to be heard… the dynamic range is enormous… The soloists make a fine trio… The choral contribution is excellent throughout

Gramophone

The London Symphony Orchestra performed the work with all the commitment and exuberance that one expects from them' The three soloists were outstanding, singing with a unified dynamic power and depth of expression that is rare to find today…Christopher Maltman’s baritone is large, and he dramatically projected every emotion and quirk in the text.

MusicOMH.com

BBC Music Magazine

MusicOMH.com

Hickox and his forces certainly conveyed an appropriate sense of the dramatic… Maltman had the sense of the music and histrionic demands down to a tee… Banks provided strong characterization in the high tenor writing… Claycomb conveyed the vulnerability of the soprano’s music

Classic Source

‘Do we really need another one?’ is the obvious question to ask about this recording of Carmina Burana, and of course it should be asked. Yet so outstanding in so many respects is this version, led by Richard Hickox, and available in superb SACD sound, that one forgets about such a basic query almost as soon as it has entered one’s brain… All in all then, this Carmina holds its head up proudly among the best, and in stunning sound too.

International Record Review

Gramophone

Hickox and his forces certainly conveyed an appropriate sense of the dramatic…Maltman had the sense of the music and histrionic demands down to a tee… Banks provided strong characterization in the high tenor writing… Claycomb conveyed the vulnerability of the soprano’s music.

Classical Source

Do we really need another one? is the obvious question to ask about this recording of Carmina Burana, and of course it should be asked. Yet so outstanding in so many respects is this version, led by Richard Hichox, and available in superb SACD sound, that one forgets about such a basic query almost as soon as it has entered one’s brain All in all then, this Carmina holds its head up proudly amoung the best, and in stunning sound too.

International Record Review

The Telegraph

Hickox and his forces certainly conveyed an appropriate sense of the dramatic Maltman had the sense of the music and histrionic demands down to a tee Banks provided strong characterization in the high tenor writing Claycomb conveyed the vulnerability of the soprano’s music.

Classical Source

The London Symphony Orchestra performed the work with all the commitment and exuberance that one expects from them . The three soloists were outstanding, singing with a unified dynamic power and depth of expression that is rare to find today Christopher Maltman’s baritone is large, and he dramatically projected every emotion and quirk in the text.

MusicOMH.com

Another Carmina? Yes, and totally justified as it happens. In large choral works like this one few conductors better Richard Hickox and sure enough the opening ’O Fortuna’ is arresting: taut and tense in atmosphere, crisp in diction without self-conscious mannerism Classic performances by André Previn and Frühbeck de Burgos are still available but Hickox is at least their equal overall this is a richly enjoyable performance of a much-recorded masterpiece.

BBC Music Magazine

The Chandos engineers have worked wonders with the Barbican’s tricky acoustic, providing vivid sound allowing a wealth of orchestral detail to be heard the dynamic range is enormous The soloists make a fine trio The choral contribution is excellent throughout.

Gramophone

My Wish List