Orff: Carmina Burana / Hickox, London SO

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Chandos
Release Date
October 28, 2008
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ORFF, CARL
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      London Symphony Chorus
    • PERFORMER
      Claycomb, Banks, Maltman, Hickox, Lso
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2008
    • UPC
      095115506721
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHSA 5067
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Secular
    Works ⌄

    1. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    2. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Fortune plango vulnera

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    3. I. Primo vere: Veris leta facies

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    4. I. Primo vere: Omnia sol temperat

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christopher Maltman

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    5. I. Primo vere: Ecce gratum

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    6. Uf dem anger: Tanz

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    7. Uf dem anger: Floret Silva

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    8. Uf dem anger: Chramer, gip die varwe mir

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    9. Uf dem anger: Reie

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    10. Uf dem anger: Were diu werlt alle min

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    11. II. In taberna: Estuans interius

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christopher Maltman

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    12. II. In taberna: Olim lacus colueram

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Barry Banks

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    13. II. In taberna: Ego sum abbas

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Barry Banks

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    14. II. In taberna: In taberna quando sumus

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christopher Maltman

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    15. III. Cour d'amours: Amor volat undique

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: Tiffin Boys Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Laura Claycomb

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    16. III. Cour d'amours: Dies, nox et omnia

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christopher Maltman

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    17. III. Cour d'amours: Stetit puella

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Laura Claycomb

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    18. III. Cour d'amours: Circa mea pectora

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christopher Maltman

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    19. III. Cour d'amours: Si puer cum puellula

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    20. III. Cour d'amours: Veni, veni, venias

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    21. III. Cour d'amours: In trutina

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Laura Claycomb

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    22. III. Cour d'amours: Tempus est iocundum

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: Tiffin Boys Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Laura Claycomb, Christopher Maltman

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    23. III. Cour d'amours: Dulcissime

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Laura Claycomb

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    24. Blanziflor et Helena: Ave formosissima

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    25. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna

      Composer: Carl Orff

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox


" This brilliant new recording of Orff's Carmina Burana is a tragic memento of conductor Richard Hickox, who died in Novemeber at the age of sixty. This is a vibrant, dynamic performance of Orff's masterpiece recorded live in London's Barbican Centre. As usual with Chandos, engineering is first-rate, with perfect balances and wide dynamic range." -- Bob Benson, Classical CD Review

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Recorded live at the Barbican Centre in November 2007, Richard Hickox conducts Carl Orff's immensely popular dramatic cantata Carmina Burana with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and soloists, Barry Banks, Laura Claycomb and Christopher Maltman.

MusicOMH.com wrote of the performance, "The London Symphony Orchestra performed the work with all the commitment and exuberance that one expects from them... The three soloists were outstanding, singing with a unified dynamic power and depth of expression that is rare to find today...Christopher Maltman's baritone is large, and he dramatically projected every emotion and quirk in the text." Classical Source said "Hickox and his forces certainly conveyed an appropriate sense of the dramatic...Maltman had the sense of the music and histrionic demands down to a tee... Banks provided strong characterization in the high tenor writing... Claycomb conveyed the vulnerability of the soprano's music."

Orff is reputed to have declared around the time of Carmina's first performance, 'Everything I have written to date, and which you have printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.' He had a strong interest in theatrical presentations and conceived the work as a pageant. The idea came to Orff in 1935 when he encountered an edition of medieval songs edited by the poet Johann Schmeller. The vivid and colourful songs were those sung by the goliards - hedonistic students and traveling monks who celebrated their riotous pursuits in bawdy and profane poetry. The 24 'cantiones profanae' chosen by Orff were translated and the composer set them to music for three vocal soloists, three choirs and a large orchestra featuring triple woodwind, two pianos and no fewer than five percussionists. The score's combination of gloriously infectious vulgarity interspersed with moments of genuine beauty has assured it an unquestionable position as one of the most popular of all twentieth century choral works.