BaL 12.06.21 - Orff: Carmina Burana

[ardcarp]

Amazing how the record companies keep misdescribing the male voices..

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Hardly surprising when a baritone is hovering (Hoovering) around in the stratosphere. Not to mention the tenor. It's the effect CO wanted, of course.

I agree it was an excellent BAL. Good to have a few identical passages compared from different recordings, something that seems to have been missing in the recent fad for a 'start-to-finish-in-order' presentation.

[BBMmk2]

At least Previn was mentioned. R F de B's recording didn't even get a mention which I thought odd indeed given the outstanding choral singing, soloist excellence and the great playing/conducting.
Warum?

Can’t complain about those two recordings.

[Nick Armstrong]

Seconded. What a pleasure to have a really expert reviewer, who knows about singing, knows about the work, knows about recording - and can string more than two words together without throwing in an "absolutely fantastic". There was something here for everyone, whether they knew the work well or not. Alles gegrüßt!

[Barbirollians]

I listened to this today . Glad to be reminded how awful a piece it is - the roasted swan piece particularly ghastly .

[Bryn]

I listened to this today . Glad to be reminded how awful a piece it is - the roasted swan piece particularly ghastly .

I am happy to rely on my memory to confirm a similar response.

[LMcD]

I listened to this today . Glad to be reminded how awful a piece it is - the roasted swan piece particularly ghastly .

More or less ghastly than Hindemith's 'Schwanendreher'?

[Bryn]

More or less ghastly than Hindemith's 'Schwanendreher'?

The Orffull wins hands down, the following notwithstading:

[ardcarp]

the roasted swan piece particularly ghastly

Well it isn't meant to sound 'lovely'.

[Petrushka]

... the roasted swan piece particularly ghastly .

You haven't yet heard my rendition!

[pastoralguy]

It’s great fun to play!

[Richard Barrett]

It’s great fun to play!

Indeed, and to sing also. I can't say it's a work I feel the need to listen to often but surely it's Gebrauchsmusik that fulfils its brief a lot better than many other examples.

[Barbirollians]

Maybe but it makes me feel nauseous - not only its associations but the music itself - In Trutina , ostensibly the best of it , sounds like musical saccharine even when sung by Popp or Janowitz.

[gradus]

Maybe but it makes me feel nauseous - not only its associations but the music itself - In Trutina , ostensibly the best of it , sounds like musical saccharine even when sung by Popp or Janowitz.

Well it is meant to be sweet and seductive just as Lucia Popp sings it. As ever chacun ...

[Barbirollians]

Well it is meant to be sweet and seductive just as Lucia Popp sings it. As ever chacun ...

I know and nobody could do a better job of it - but I find the piece sickly.

I listened to it this morning and had to listen to Lucia Popp singing the Song of the Moon afterwards to wash away the taste.

[mikealdren]

Sadly the Song to the moon has similarly been spoiled for me by over exposure, in this case ClassicFM's endless playing of Renée Fleming's sickly singing.