Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Douban
Sinossi
Yes, here it is folks--that irritatingly catchy chorus you first heard in the film Excalibur, or as the background music to the HBO Boxing Specials, and in zillions of other places. What it's not is the music from The Omen, which it clearly inspired. All pieces of music that feature choruses chanting in Latin are not the same (in fact, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms is much closer to The Omen than this). Orff actually wrote a lot more music, but here's a case where his reputation as a "one work" composer really is justified, for nothing else comes close in musical or popular appeal. This performance was authorized by the composer himself, and that's recommendation enough. --David Hurwitz
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Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi, No 1: O Fortuna
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi, No 2: Fortune Plango Vulnera
Primo Vere, No 3: Veris Leta Facies
Primo Vere, No 4: Omnia Sol Temperat
Primo Vere, No 5: Ecce Gratum
Uf Dem Anger, No 6: Tanz
Uf Dem Anger, No 7: Floret/Silva
Uf Dem Anger, No 8: Chramer, Gip Die Varwe Mir
Uf Dem Anger, No 9: Reie/Swaz Hie Gat Umbe/Chume, Chum Geselle Min
Uf Dem Anger, No 10: Were Diu Werlt Alle Min
In Taberna, No 11: Estuans Interius
In Taberna, No 12: Olim Lacus Colueram
In Taberna, No 13: Ego Sum Abbas
In Taberna, No 14: In Taberna Quando Sumus
Cour D'Amours, No 15 : Amor Volat Undique
Cour D'Amours, No 16: Dies, Nox et Omnia
Cour D'Amours, No 17: Stetit Puella
Cour D'Amours, No 18: Circa Mea Pectora
Cour D'Amours, No 19: Si Puer cum Puellula
Cour D'Amours, No 20: Veni, Venim, Venias
Cour D'Amours, No 21: In Trutina
Cour D'Amours, No 22: Tempus est Iocundum
Cour D'Amours, No 23 Dulcissime
Blanziflor et Helena, No 24: Ave Formosissima
Cour D'Amours, No 25: O Fortuna