This was the dramatic rendition of
Carl Orff's most famous piece of music, how he wanted it to look but seldom performed as such nowadays. It was finally filmed by
West German TV in
1975 with the close co-operation of
Orff in honour of his 80th birthday. The various stories of young lust and gluttony are playfully and skillfully brought to life. This version of Orff's masterpiece of the sacred and profane was hard to find in
Germany. Not so strange, it was banned there for decades, most likely because of its almost literal interpretation of the texts Orff put music to. I first saw this when I was 12-13 years old at the
Goethe Institute in
Bergen, Norway, with my father, sister and mother.
Someone had managed to get hold of an 8mm film roll with it and had a secret screening. This was in the
1980s and, believe it or not, there were strong forces opposed to what they considered blasphemous content in films. The mixture of
Christian and pagan imagery is completely consistent with the lyrics, which were found in a monastery, and are a mixture of sacred and profane songs, but were obviously too tough to swallow. Copies of the film were destroyed, but luckily, art prevailed.
Cantata:
Carmina Burana
"Canciones de Beuern" (
Codex Buranus)
Música: Carl Orff
Texto: Manuscrito anónimo encontrado en el
monasterio bávaro de Benediktbeuern
Estreno: el 8 de junio de
1937 en la
Alte Oper de
Fráncfort del
Meno
In trutina
(
Entre los dos)
Parte 3ª
III "Cour d'amours" Número 21
Soprano...Lucia Popp
Director de Orquesta..........
Kurt Eichhorn
Pelicula dirigida por.........
..Jean Pierre Ponnelle
Chor des
Bayerischen Rundfunks
Tölzer Knabenchor
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Bavaria Film GmbH,
Munich, 1975
Song List:
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
1.
O Fortuna
2.
Fortune plango vulnera
I --
Primo vere
3. Veris leta facies
4.
Omnia sol temperat
5. Ecce gratum
Uf dem
Anger
6.
Tanz
7. Floret silva
8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir
9. a) Reie
9. b) Swaz hie gat umbe
9. c) Chume, chum, geselle min
9. d) Swaz hie gat umbe
10. Were diu werlt alle min
II -- In Taberna
11.
Estuans interius
12. Olim lacus colueram
13. Ego sum abbas
14. In taberna quando sumus
III -- Cour d'amours
15.
Amor volat undique
16.
Dies, nox et omnia
17. Stetit puella
18.
Circa mea pectora
19. Si puer cum puellula
20. Veni, veni, venias
21. In trutina
22. Tempus est iocundum
23. Dulcissime
Blanziflor et
Helena
24. Ave formosissima
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
25. O Fortuna (reprise)
Lucia Popp (soprano)
John van Kesteren (tenor)
Hermann Prey (baritone)
Bavarian
Radio Chorus
Tolz
Children's Choir
Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Kurt Eichhorn
Film Directed by Jean Pierre Ponnelle
"Kurt Eichhorn-Carmina Burana/Veris leta facies", sound recording administered by:
SME
- published: 21 Jan 2012
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