Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

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TheGSMoeller

Quote from: huntsman on February 22, 2013, 08:24:51 AM
Which is the best version?  :-\

There are many potential best versions. Get ready for many offerings.  ;D

I prefer Slatkin, Blomstedt, and Jochum in the orchestral version. But I love this chamber version...


Karl Henning

Curiously, I heard the chamber version live in St Petersburg, at the Glinka Capella, and it was a visiting Scandinavian student ensemble (from Norway, though).
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Cato

You cannot go wrong with Orff's favorite version...

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...because it has Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Ego Sum Abbas Cucaniensis) and the incredible Gerhard Stolze as the roasted swan in Olim lacus colueram.
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Quote from: TheGSMoeller on February 22, 2013, 08:34:06 AM
There are many potential best versions. Get ready for many offerings.  ;D

I prefer Slatkin, Blomstedt, and Jochum in the orchestral version.
I'm fine with any of these three myself! :)
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Gurn Blanston

Quote from: Cato on February 22, 2013, 11:31:55 AM
You cannot go wrong with Orff's favorite version...

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...because it has Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Ego Sum Abbas Cucaniensis) and the incredible Gerhard Stolze as the roasted swan in Olim lacus colueram.

This is the killer version for sure. I just re-listened to it last weekend, played it twice through because I could. :)

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Holden

There are two that I rate as top and I prefer them over the Jochum.

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or

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You'll note that both companies rate these as 'Great Recordings' and deservedly so.

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Tsaraslondon

This was always my favourite. Lucia Popp is to die for



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jochanaan

Quote from: Tsaraslondon on February 23, 2013, 01:24:01 PM
This was always my favourite. Lucia Popp is to die for


It's certainly one of the best vocally (I agree about La Lucia!), but I feel other conductors have a better handle on Orff's instrumental style and tempo markings.  Andre Previn and Eugene Ormandy, surprisingly, come very close to ideal tempos and style.

I've only heard the Jochum recording on radio broadcast, but what impressed me is its simple joy and exuberance.  They're having the time of their lives! ;D That alone makes it a favorite of mine.
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Daimonion

Dear All,

   I hope you don't mind if I ask for one more suggestion. I would like to order, in particular, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (this time it is for a gift) but don't know which particular CD I should choose. Is there / are there any obvious choice(s)?

All the best,

Daimonion

Sergeant Rock

This one: Jochum conducting, with Janowitz, Stolze, and Fischer-Dieskau

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Cato

Quote from: Daimonion on July 01, 2013, 04:01:47 AM
Dear All,

   I hope you don't mind if I ask for one more suggestion. I would like to order, in particular, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (this time it is for a gift) but don't know which particular CD I should choose. Is there / are there any obvious choice(s)?

All the best,

Daimonion

Amen to what Sarge says!

Carl Orff himself liked this one the best: Eugen Jochum and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and the incredible Gerhard Stolze (singing the "Roast Swan Song"):

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Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Daimonion

I've just (i.e. on last Friday) taken part in Carmina Burana's spectacle at the Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow:

http://opera.krakow.pl/english.php?id=2281

It's a pity I cannot embed any video file as an example:-(

Holden

This

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or this

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I prefer both to the Jochum
Cheers

Holden


North Star

Quote from: david johnson on July 01, 2013, 11:52:40 PM
http://www.amazon.com/Orff-Carmina-Burana-Ravel-Bolero/dp/B000002S3E/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1372751534&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=carmina+burana+fruhbek
Available here (and also in the music of the 20th C. box) - the Frühbeck de Burgos is the one I have. I would be interested in hearing how others, who may know several recordings, like it.
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david johnson

North Star, it is the most exciting and best sounding to me.  I've had various recordings of the work since the 60's.  Many other good ones are out there, though  :)

Karl Henning

On the whole, I think: none.

Over the years, I have participated in two performances of the piece, and sat in the audience for a third. I find it one of those works which is exciting to take part in, but it strikes me as rather indifferent as a piece to listen to.  Now, I am open to that reflection being changed, if I find The Right Recording, e.g., however, I don't know that it is reasonable to expect any recording to rival the rich experience of being in the orchestra (or in the chorus) as one of the executants of the piece.

YMMV, of course; I am not asserting this as the way it should be for anyone else on the planet  0:)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

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