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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0028944743722 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon MPN: 447437 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon Release Date: May 14, 1996 Studio: Deutsche Grammophon Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ORFF NEVER HEARD THIS VERSION!I would like to clear up some confusion: THIS IS NOT THE RECORDED PERFORMANCE THAT CARL ORFF CONDONED!! Orff attended the rehearsals of Eugen Jochum's earlier **1953** mono recording of Carmina Burana and approved that final performance. That version is available on another DGG recording of all three pieces Orff wrote in a similar vein; the album is entitled "Trionfi". The 1953 recording presents a very different version than this stereo one that Jochum recorded 15 years later in 1968 AND WHICH ... Read More Rating:  - Wanted to give this 5 stars...... but I cannot, based on the oftentimes sluggish tempi, and the absolutely horrendous performance of "Olim lacus colueram" by Stolze. Fischer-Dieskau is excellent, as always, and Janowitz remains, in my opinion, one of the most egregiously overlooked sopranos of the last century or so. This CD is worth buying for her sparkling renditions of "Stetit Puella," "In trutina," and "Dulcissime" alone. Rating: - What makes this a classic? The fact that it was approved by the composer?Well, this performance was approved by the composer(Yeah!!!Congrats!!!) Does this makes it a definitive performance? Of course not, then again, how many versions aren't there of the Bruckner symphonies? and we like them all and then again Orff is not Bruckner. Orff is know for only this work. The sound world in this recording is different from say a recording by Mutti, or Detoit. DG should have picked a different performance for this most excellent collection of "The Originals" Rating: - Best pagen music aroundI have heard four versions of Carmina Burana over the years. I found this performance the best to date, to which my daughter agrees. Gerardus M. Smit Rating:  - Splendid !It's definitively the best adaptation of Carl Orff's masterpiece with astonishing vocal parts.Surely a "must have" CD for everyone who loves classical music at his best. |
