Welsh Carmina Burana

[greenilex]

Hope lots of people will listen tonight and post pro and anti impressions...

[Cellini]

I'm afraid I'm out playing quartets but Carmini Burana is a piece I hated when on the odd occasion I had to play it, so I probably would have deliberately missed it anyway. Sorry!! (It probably sounds just as bad in Welsh anyway)

[Bryn]

I'll post my anti- now. It's bloody Orfful!

[Cellini]

[Bryn]

famously used in the trailer for Scoobie-Doo on Zombie Island

And even more so to sell revolting aftershave.

[mercia]

not to mention as one matriculates from Oslo University

[doversoul1]

But all that is not its own fault, is it?

[mercia]

But all that is not its own fault, is it?

no, quite so, more to its credit

[MrGongGong]

The rice is included though and you get the little dish of curry sauce on the side

[Frances_iom]

The rice is included though and you get the little dish of curry sauce on the side

would that be Nasi Goreng ?

[MrGongGong]

would that be Nasi Goreng ?

I dont know anything about Orffs (alleged !) tryst with Goering
but I do like a nice biryani

[greenilex]

Well, the kiddy choir reduced me to tears as usual and I sang along to most of the rest. So there's one happy punter outside the principality.

I think the massed youth choirs had a good party...

[Bert Coules]

Has the piece ever been performed in English?

[greenilex]

I'm not sure if a translation would really be possible - it's in various mediaeval European languages and the meanings are risque in the extreme.

Young people's student junk, basically. But poetry which is the tap-root of western culture, imo. And the music does it justice, Kraut or not.

[Bert Coules]

...the meanings are risque in the extreme.

Well, this is often said, but is it actually the case? There's a (non-singing) translation here, for example, which contains nothing particularly objectionable, and here is a version specially written to fit Orff's setting, of which the same is true: I see nothing there likely to shock any audience today.