Carmina Burana
- Carmina Burana
- Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 335 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" HMA 195 335
[CD]
Contents:
- Bacche, bene venies (CB 200)
- Virent prata hiemata (CB 151)
- Nonem a sollempnibus (CB 52)
- Alte clamat Epicurus / Nu lebe ich (CB 211 / 211a)
- Vite perdite II (CB 31)
- Vacillantis trutine (CB 108)
- In taberna quando sumus (CB 196)
- Iste mundus (CB 24)
- Axe Phebus aureo (CB 71)
- Dulce solum natalis patrie (CB 119)
- Procurans odium (CB 12)
- Vite perdite I (CB 31)
- Sic mea fata canendo (CB 116)
- Ich was ein chint so wolgeran (CB 185)
- Deduc Syon, uberrimas (CB 34)
- Ecce torpet probitas (CB 3)
- In terra summus rex (CB 11)
- Fas et nefas ambulant (CB 19)
- Flete flenda (CB 5)
- Homo qui vigeas (CB 22)
Performers: Zeger Vandersteene (countertenor, percussion), Hans
Breitschopf (countertenor), Pedro Liendo (baritone), René
Zosso (hurdy-gurdy, chant), René Clemencic (recorders, flute,
cornet, shepherd's flute, organ), Andràs Kécskès
(lute, rubebe, psaltery), Frantisek Pik (cornet, courbe, mandolin),
Anne Osnowycz (buche), Spiros Rantos (vielles, rabab), Richard Erig
(shawm, bombarde), Walter Schiefer (percussion)
Playing time: 61'
Recording date: February, 1974
Carmina Burana is a large German student manuscript from which
Orff drew his famous 20th century setting. The current disc is
the original 13th century version.
Although the manuscript, discovered in a Benedictine monastery
in the mid-19th century and subsequently named Carmina Burana,
is very extensive, the majority of the texts do not include melodies.
These are to be inferred by the structure of texts or other cues
which allude to well-known medieval melodies from other sources.
German medieval music of this sort is generally known as Vagantenlieder,
the poetry of the Goliards.
The lag between the technical & artistic developments in
this source and those of Western Europe is substantial. Although
the Carmina Burana dates from c.1220, it is actually grouped
technically with analogous songs and notations in the Cambridge
Songbook of c.1000. This is of course part of its interest, as it
reflects an earlier practice which did not survive in quantity.
This is a classic performance, often raucous in tone. There
are many other recordings to choose from, often with rather different
performance decisions.
Some other renditions:
- Carmina Burana
- Codex Buranus - Original version
Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Oehms Classics 635
- Carmina Burana
- Boston Camerata - Joel Cohen
Erato 14987
- Carmina Burana: Medieval Songs
- Ensemble Unicorn - Michael Posch / Oni Wytars - Marco Ambrosini
Naxos 8.554837
- Carmina Burana
- Obsidienne - Emmanuel Bonnardot
Eloquentia 1127
- Carmina Burana: Tempus transit
- Millenarium
Ricercar 238
- Carmina Burana: Sacri Sarcasmi
- La Reverdie
Arcana 353
- Satires, Desires, and Excesses
- Music from the Carmina Burana
New Orleans Musica da Camera
Centaur 2145
- Carmina Burana
- Studio der Frühen Musik - Thomas Binkley
Teldec (Das Alte Werk) 95521 (2
CDs)
- Carmina Burana
- Capella Antiqua München - Konrad Ruhland
Christophorus Entrée 0016
- Carmina Burana
- Carmina Moralia, Carmina Veris et Amoris, Carmina Lusorum et
Potatorum, Carmina Divina
Theatrum Instrumentorum
Arts 47511
- Carmina Burana
- Version médiévale
Le Concert dans l'Oeuf & l'Atelier Polyphonique de Bourgogne
Collection Romane 105
- Carmina Burana
- Modo Antiquo - Bettina Hoffmann
Amadeus "Speciale" 056-57
(2 CDs)
- Carmina Burana XII
- Ensemble Alegria
Pierre Vérany 791092
- In Taberna
- Carmina Burana - Original version
Collegium Arniense
Well Music "International"
99901
- Carmina Burana
- Le Grand Mystère de la Passion
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi 901323.24 (2
CDs)
The last citation above is a reconstruction of the dramatic play
which concludes the manuscript, and which is basically distinct
from much of the other contents.
And two more extensive programs, including the one from which
the present compilation is drawn:
- Carmina Burana
- New London Consort - Philip Pickett
L'Oiseau Lyre 443 143
(4 CDs; mid-price)
- Carmina Burana
- Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord
190336.38 (3 CDs)
Although they may be "complete" in some sense, it is
not worthwhile to talk about completeness for this manuscript, as
precisely which lyrics have performable music is a matter of some
inference.
A other few recordings by Clemencic of similar material:
- La Fête de l'Âne
- Traditions du Moyen-Âge
Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Harmonia Mundi 901036
- Mysterium Passionis et resurrectionis
- Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Nuova Era 7054
- Anonymous from Beauvais - Ludus Danielis
- Liturgical Drama of the XII Century
Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Aura Classics 184
For more recordings by Clemencic, see
his discography.
Finally, a later collection of Gothic music from the German-speaking
world, representing a similar cross-section of genres:
- Codex Engelberg 314
- Music of the Late Middle Ages
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Dominique Vellard / Wulf Arlt
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77185
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