Orff: Carmina Burana

Carl Orff became famous overnight in 1937 with his large-scale Carmina Burana. Contemporary harmonies and expressive melodies are combined here with elements of medieval music, powerful rhythms and an artful simplicity. Orff composed this work to Latin, Middle and Old High German songs that were found in 1803 in the Benediktbeuren monastery in Bavaria and are today among the most important literary testimonies of the Middle Ages. In three parts, the songs of Carmina Burana tell of love and courtship, of romance and mysticism, but above all of the cycle of life. To this day, the work is one of the most popular pieces of serious music of the 20th century. At this concert, it will be performed by the Festival Sinfonieorchester Berlin and the Junges Ensemble Berlin choir under the direction of Knut Andreas.