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Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images.") Carmina Burana is part of Trionfi, the musical triptych that also includes the cantata Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The best-known movement is "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (O Fortuna)" that opens and closes the piece.
UC Davis University Chorus, Alumni Chorus, Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Boychoir perform Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," at the Mondavi Center on the campus of UC Davis. Jeffrey Thomas, conducting, Shawnette Sulker, soprano, Gerald Thomas Gray, tenor, and Malcolm MacKenzie, baritone. Series: Mondavi Center Presents [6/2007] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 11787]
UC Davis University Chorus, Alumni Chorus, Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Boychoir perform Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," at the Mondavi Center on the campus of UC Davis. Jeffrey Thomas, conducting, Shawnette Sulker, soprano, Gerald Thomas Gray, tenor, and Malcolm MacKenzie, baritone. Series: Mondavi Center Presents [6/2007] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 11787]
Oct 16, 2009 11:12 AM
Re: Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
O Fortuna (Chorus) (O Fortune)O Fortuna O Fortune,
velut luna like the moon
statu variabilis, you are changeable,
semper crescis ever waxing
aut decrescis; and waning;
vita detestabilis hateful life
nunc obdurat first oppresses
et tunc curat and then soothes
ludo mentis aciem, as fancy takes it;
egestatem, poverty
potestatem and power
dissolvit ut glaciem. it melts them like ice.
Sors immanis Fate - monstrous
et inanis, and empty,
rota tu volubilis, you whirling wheel,
status malus, you are malevolent,
vana salus well-being is vain
semper dissolubilis, and always fades to nothing,
obumbrata shadowed
et velata and veiled
michi quoque niteris; you plague me too;
nunc per ludum now through the game
dorsum nudum I bring my bare back
fero tui sceleris. to your villainy.
Sors salutis Fate is against me
et virtutis in health
michi nunc contraria, and virtue,
est affectus driven on
et defectus and weighted down,
semper in angaria. always enslaved.
Hac in hora So at this hour
sine mora without delay
corde pulsum tangite; pluck the vibrating strings;
quod per sortem since Fate
sternit fortem, strikes down the strong man,
mecum omnes plangite! everyone weep with me!
velut luna like the moon
statu variabilis, you are changeable,
semper crescis ever waxing
aut decrescis; and waning;
vita detestabilis hateful life
nunc obdurat first oppresses
et tunc curat and then soothes
ludo mentis aciem, as fancy takes it;
egestatem, poverty
potestatem and power
dissolvit ut glaciem. it melts them like ice.
Sors immanis Fate - monstrous
et inanis, and empty,
rota tu volubilis, you whirling wheel,
status malus, you are malevolent,
vana salus well-being is vain
semper dissolubilis, and always fades to nothing,
obumbrata shadowed
et velata and veiled
michi quoque niteris; you plague me too;
nunc per ludum now through the game
dorsum nudum I bring my bare back
fero tui sceleris. to your villainy.
Sors salutis Fate is against me
et virtutis in health
michi nunc contraria, and virtue,
est affectus driven on
et defectus and weighted down,
semper in angaria. always enslaved.
Hac in hora So at this hour
sine mora without delay
corde pulsum tangite; pluck the vibrating strings;
quod per sortem since Fate
sternit fortem, strikes down the strong man,
mecum omnes plangite! everyone weep with me!
Re: Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
I love Carmina Burana.
When I was a kid, my school had a very good classical choir (we even traveled to sing all around Spain, went to Soviet Moscow and did a small Christmas tour in Rome, including two concerts in Vatican City). I was a contralto and that meant I had little oportunity to do solos, but when I was like 11, I was selected along 5 other kids from the choir to sing a small part of Carnina Burana on a couple of big concerts.
In Tempus es iocundum I sang:
Oh, oh, oh,
totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor
est, quo pereo.
We sang Beethoven, Mozart, Haendl and many more, but I think Carmina Burana is my fondest memory from the choir. You dont know how impressive ir is to be on a stage beign part of something so powerful.
When I was a kid, my school had a very good classical choir (we even traveled to sing all around Spain, went to Soviet Moscow and did a small Christmas tour in Rome, including two concerts in Vatican City). I was a contralto and that meant I had little oportunity to do solos, but when I was like 11, I was selected along 5 other kids from the choir to sing a small part of Carnina Burana on a couple of big concerts.
In Tempus es iocundum I sang:
Oh, oh, oh,
totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor
est, quo pereo.
We sang Beethoven, Mozart, Haendl and many more, but I think Carmina Burana is my fondest memory from the choir. You dont know how impressive ir is to be on a stage beign part of something so powerful.
By: El_Hombre_Malo
