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Carmina Burana for solo guitar

SKU: 03336

Price:
AU $18.14

Label: ABC Classics Cat. No.: 476 7498 Medium: CD No. Discs: 1

The modern Carmina Burana is one of the most famous and loved pieces of music in the world and perhaps, needless to say, few people were able to conceive of it working for guitar! Yet it works very well and it does so for various reasons.

Firstly, Orff seems to strip his music down to its raw ingredients. There is no complicated harmony or melody in Carmina Burana, but an abundance of primitive rhythm. The actual musical language, apart from the extravagant orchestration, is uncluttered and almost stark. It became apparent during the arrangement process that the powerful drama and delicate lyricism of Carmina Burana can be conveyed with the musical message intact. The vibrant percussive nature of the guitar almost draws Carmina Burana to the instrument.

The other reason why Carmina Burana works successfully on guitar is that the original sources, the medieval Goliard songs, have a certain affinity with the instrument. The wandering scholars and carousing monks of the Middle Ages would have accompanied themselves on a variety of instruments, including harps, hurdy-gurdies and lutes, and the guitar reinvests this medieval heritage back into the modern Carmina Burana.

This title is also available as part of the 4-CD box set The Art of Gareth Koch - A Guitar Anthology.

Artists:

Gareth Koch (guitar).

Composers:

Orff.

Tracks:

CARL ORFF (1895-1982)

1 2	Fortune, Empress of the World O Fortuna (O Fortune) Fortune plango vulnera (I suffer the wounds of Fortune)
3 4	Spring Veris leta facies (The merry face of spring) Omnia Sol temperat (The gentle sun warms the world)
5 6 7 8 9	On the Green Tanz (Dance) Floret silva (All is green in the forest now) Chramer, gip die varwe mir (Give me rouge to colour my cheeks) Swaz hie gat umbe (Round dance) Chume, chum geselle min! (Come, come my love) Swaz hie gat umbe (Round dance)
10	In the Tavern In taberna quando sumus (In the tavern we drink without shame)
11 12 13 14	The Court of Love Amor volat undique (Cupid flies everywhere) Dies, nox et omnia (Day, night and everything is against me) Tempus est iocundum (This is a time of joy, O maidens) Dulcissime (Sweetest one, I give myself to you!)
15	Fortune, Empress of the World O Furtuna (O Fortune)
16 17	Songs of the Trouveres ANONYMOUS (13th century) arr. Gareth Koch Eve's Garden (Pastourelle) ADAM DE LA HALLE (1237-1288) Robin Loves Me