Carl Orff - Carmina Burana | O Fortuna

"Everything I have written to date can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana my collected works begin." Carl Orff writting to his publishers, Schott "O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite! The text for Carmina Burana is drawn from the collection of sometimes bawdy twelfth-century Latin and German Poems written by the monks of Benediktbeuem. Carl Orff repudiated its conservative trainning through an early infactuation with the music of Debussy and Schoenberg. In the 1920s, he began to immerse himself in the works of Monteverdi and other seventeenth-century masters. Coro Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze Orchestra Camera Fiorentina Pianist: Francesco Romano Conducted by Ennio Clari 20.XII.11 (www.corocarifirenze.it)