Eugen Jochum - Orff: Carmina Burana

This recording brings together a young cast in a performance bristling with energy. The sound is overwhelming in its impact. The secret of the overwhelming success of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana lies in its skillful and apparently simple mixture of archaic rhythms and sounds (derived from the composer’s convictions about what ancient music must have sounded like) with the sort of music that was actually performed at medieval mystery plays.

1. ''O Fortuna'' ~ Carmina Burana / Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

2. ''Fortune plango vulnera'' ~ Carmina Burana / Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

3. ''Veris leta facies'' ~ Carmina Burana / 1. Primo vere

4. ''Omnia Sol temperat'' ~ Carmina Burana / 1. Primo vere

5. ''Ecce gratum'' ~ Carmina Burana / 1. Primo vere

6. Dance ~ Carmina Burana / Uf dem Anger

7. ''Floret silva nobilis'' ~ Carmina Burana / Uf dem Anger

8. ''Chramer, gip die varwe mir'' ~ Carmina Burana / Uf dem Anger

9. ''Swaz hie gat umbe'' - ''Chume, chum geselle min'' ~ Carmina Burana / Uf dem Anger

10. ''Were diu werlt alle min'' ~ Carmina Burana / Uf dem Anger

11. ''Estuans interius'' ~ Carmina Burana / 2. In Taberna

12. ''Olim lacus colueram'' ~ Carmina Burana / 2. In Taberna

13. ''Ego sum abbas'' ~ Carmina Burana / 2. In Taberna

14. ''In taberna quando sumus'' ~ Carmina Burana / 2. In Taberna

15. ''Amor volat undique'' ~ Carmina Burana / 3. Cour d'amours

16. ''Dies, nox et omnia'' ~ Carmina Burana / 3. Cour d'amours

17. ''Stetit puella'' ~ Carmina Burana / 3. Cour d'amours

18. ''Circa mea pectora'' ~ Carmina Burana / 3. Cour d'amours

19. ''Si puer cum puellula'' ~ Carmina Burana / 3. Cour d'amours

20. ''Veni, veni, venias'' ~ Carmina Burana / 3. Cour d'amours

21. ''In trutina'' ~ Carmina Burana / 3. Cour d'amours

22. ''Tempus est iocundum'' ~ Carmina Burana / 3. Cour d'amours

23. ''Dulcissime'' ~ Carmina Burana / 3. Cour d'amours

24. ''Ave formosissima'' ~ Carmina Burana / Blanziflor et Helena

25. ''O Fortuna'' ~ Carmina Burana / Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

Customer Reviews (4.00 Stars) 3 person(s) rated this product.

didnt like it posted on 04/20/2010 2 Stars Ive sung this live a few times and own several copies and felt this performance lacked energy and oomph. The sound quality was terrible too, the worst of my 100 or so DG recordings.I much prefer the runnicles on sacd, though it may be a bit OTT for some.

Excellent recording; probably the best of the whole Carmina Burana lot! posted on 01/23/2008 5 Stars Reviewer: Wade Rice To my ears, this recording has been the reference as to how Carmina Burana should sound. And that isn't accepting the fact that Carl Orff "authorized" this recording as stated on the cover. Everything: soloists, chorus, and orchestra perform with white heat under Jochum's baton, and DG has given this recording the best sound it was capable of at the time the recording was made (1967, I believe). The current reissue has a slight improvement in sound over the original DG issues.

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