Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936 and based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images.") Carmina Burana is part of Trionfi, the musical triptych that also includes the cantata Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The best-known movement is "O Fortuna" that opens and closes the piece.
Arranged for three soloists; Soprano, Tenor and Baritone as well as the chorus SATB. Carl Orff’s dramatic cantata, Carmina Burana was originally designed as a theatre piece, a "scenic cantata" to be danced as well as sung and played. Already 38 when he began composing Carmina Burana — Songs from Benediktbeuern — Orff was nearly 42 when it finally was produced in 1936. Carmina Burana reflects the period when Orff finally turned his back on chromaticism and complex polyphony for a deliberately simplified style, characterised by its rhythmic energy and the repetition of short melodic phrases supported by elemental block harmonies. In German and English with Latin text.
Composer(s): Orff, Carl
Instrument(s): Choral(Vocal Score)
SKU: ED2877

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