It is this image that forms a leitmotif in Orff’s cantata.Īttempting to revive music’s “ancient foundations”, the composer used only the very simplest expressive means – clear and laconic melodious formulas and harmony reduced to its basic elements. These poems in spoken dialects – in popular Latin, Middle High German and Old French – indicate that in the dim and distant past people’s interests were largely similar to what they are today: wine, women, gambling, success and wealth… But the main idea of the whole literary diversity lays in the fact that there is nothing everlasting in this world and man, with his trifling joys and woes is merely a plaything in the hands of capricious Fate, with the spinning Wheel of Fortune a symbol of its inconstancy. This collection included works by vagrants and medieval wandering poets – students, scholars and nomadic monks. In the early 1930s the composer came across the 12 th- and 13 th-century collection of poetry Carmina Burana ( Songs from Beuern), found in a Bavarian monastery. The cantata Carmina Burana (1936) is Carl Orff’s most famous opus, bringing the composer international acclaim and, along with a few other 20 th-century masterpieces, immediately becoming part of the “gold reserves” of the popular classical repertoire. Principal Chorus Master: Konstantin RylovĬhildren's Chorus Master: Irina Yatsemirskaya Mariinsky Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra
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