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Music : Orff: Carmina Burana
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Orff: Carmina Burana from: Great Recordings of the Century List Price: £8.99 CD-Charts Price: £5.97 You Save: £3.02 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724356689923 Label: Great Recordings of the Century Manufacturer: Great Recordings of the Century Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Great Recordings of the Century Release Date: October 05, 1998 Studio: Great Recordings of the Century Sales Rank: 3032 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - The Best Ever Recording of a curious workOkay, first, for the uninitiated, what is Carmina Burana? It is that piece of music which they play if someone (prizefighters love it) needs a particualrly ostentatious entrance. Those in the UK who remember the Old Spice ads of the 70's and 80's featuring a surfer - that's Carmina Burana; specifically the first and last track "O Fortuna", "Fortune, you are like the moon; waxing and waning, bringing one man good forune and the next man ill luck" being an approximate translation. It is one of those pieces everybody has heard if they watch television or films at all (Oh yes, John Boorman's Excalibur uses a version). So, subtle it ain't? Wrong! - it has some of the most beaufiful, subtle, sophisticated, and charming pieces of music in it. ... Read More: Rating: - Carmina Burana - gripping stuffCarmina Burana is arguably one of the best pieces of music written for choir. Its many pieces cover a huge variety of styles and textures, and the rousing theme, "O Fortuna" has to be one of the most gripping and well-known themes around, used commonly to accompany scenes of horror and terror in TV and film. It is an outstanding piece from a composer who is perhaps less well-known than he should be. The piece is sung in Latin, with occasional German passages, which is probably just as well, as an English version would merit an "18" certificate! (I have it under good authority that the lyrics are very crude indeed) The piece can be dark and harrowing, yet in other sections cheerful and frivolous, and I believe it would be hard to find such an amazing ... Read More: Rating: - Fantastic orchestra, choir, and conductorThis is one of those rare 'blow your socks off' pieces - and you either love it, or hate it. I love it! This has one of the finest conductors, very skillfully guiding a superb choir and orchestra through all of the demanding requirements from this work. Excellent results all round, and my congratulations to all concerned. Peter Keats Rating: - This cd is EXCELLENT1I first heard this fabulous music when i was a child then in the 1982 movie EXCALIBUR again only i was only 5yrs but it has always stuck with me. In honesty i listen to the Carmina Burana for hours. This is the best one yet due to the brilliant's of the LONDON SYMPONY ORCHESTRA. I would definately recomend this one for us classical lover's as well as none classical lover's THUMBS UP! |
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