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Carl Orff, Carmina Burana

"Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" - O Fortuna

Fortune plango vulnera

I: "Primo vere" - Veris leta facies

I: Omnia sol temperat

I: Ecce gratum

"Uf dem Anger": Tanz

Floret silva

Chramer, gip die varwe mir

Swaz hie gat umbe

Chume, chum, geselle min

Swaz hie gat umbe (reprise)

Were diu werlt alle min

II: "In Taberna" - Estuans interius

II: Olim lacus colueram

II: Ego sum abbas

II: In taberna quando sumus

III: "Cour d'amours" - Amor volat undique

III: Dies, nox et omnia

III: Stetit puella

III: Circa mea pectora

III: Si puer cum puellula

III: Veni, veni, venias

III: In trutina

III: Tempus est iocundum

III: Dulcissime

"Blanziflor et Helena" - Ave formosissima

"Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" - O Fortuna (reprise)

Fabio Luisi conducts Orff's Carmina Burana

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

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Cast

Henriette Bonde-Hansen — Soprano

Matthias Rexroth — Countertenor

Markus Marquardt — Baritone

Danish National Concert Choir

Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi — Conductor

Program notes

The opening strains of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana are among the most widely known motifs in Western music. Heard across all types of media, from films and TV series to advertisements and parody sketches, the portentous “O Fortuna” is an instantly recognizable shorthand for epic struggle, a pained cry against the ineluctable forces of fate.

Listeners unacquainted with the rest of Orff’s cantata might imagine more of the same, but among the medieval texts featured in the Carmina Burana—some dating back to the eleventh century—there are paeans to courtly love and carnal lust, odes to the changing of seasons, and bawdy songs about drinking and gambling. The cycle is interpreted here with gusto and grit by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Fabio Luisi and featuring world-class soloists Henriette Bonde-Hansen, Matthias Rexroth, and Markus Marquardt.

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