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Search: I. Primo Vere
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. Orff: Carmina Burana/Ravel: BoléroSearch: I. Primo Vere from: Studio Plus Release Date August 01, 1992 |
. Orff: Carmina BuranaSearch: I. Primo Vere by: Leonard Slatkin, Sylvia McNair, John Aler, Hakan Hagegard, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Release Date December 12, 1994 |
. Orff: Carmina BuranaSearch: I. Primo Vere from: Decca Release Date August 23, 1999 This performance is 5-star quality and I have no problems with the sound-quality either, but I'm simply not prepared to give 5 stars to a full-price production of Carmina Burana that does not include the words of the poems. If you just listen to this as music, you would have no way at all of telling what they are singing about. The poem about bemoaning the wounds of fortune is set to loud music and the poem about the happy face of spring to soft music. This music does not 'express' its texts in any way, it only accompanies them, vivid though it undoubtedly is. The whole point of Carmina Burana, whether this was what the composer intended or not, is the words and not primarily the music. It would be more than unfair to compare either to bierkeller ... Read More: |
