Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 7243566899234
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

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Disc 1:

1. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
2. I. Primo Vere
3. Uf Dem Anger
4. II. In Taberna
5. III. Cours D'Amour
6. Blanziflor Et Helena
7. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

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Rating: - The Best Ever Recording of a curious work
Okay, 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 ... Read More

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Rating: - Carmina Burana - gripping stuff
Carmina 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 ... Read More

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Rating: - Fantastic orchestra, choir, and conductor
This 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

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Rating: - This cd is EXCELLENT1
I 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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