SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, conducts Rupert Huber

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Carmina Burana was conceived as part of Orff's musical trilogy, the Trionfi, a musical triptych that also includes the cantata Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite.
Carmina Burana was first performed by the Frankfurt Opera on June 8, 1937. Shortly after the highly successful premiere, Orff wrote his publisher, Schott Music: "Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin." The version performed here, for soloists, mixed choir, children's choir, 2 pianos and 6 percussionists was prepared by Orff's disciple Wilhelm Killmayer in 1956 and authorized by Orff himself.

Giuseppe Paolo Cecere, symphonia/vielle/psaltery/lute
Wolfgang Reithofer, percussion
Norbert Rodenkirchen, medieval transverse flutes

The figure of the mysterious flautist who according to legend enticed the children away from the town of
Hamelin with his music in the year 1284 has retained its fascination up to the present day. What sort of music could the Pied Piper have played?
Norbert Rodenkirchen, a specialist in medieval flute music, has evaluated contemporary sources - based on recent research findings - and produced a musical compilation forming a tonal portrait. The melodies of Prince Wizlaw III of Rügen and ancient Slavonic dances provide the focus of this CD alongside numerous sources of other minnesingers and are utilised by the musician to recreate the enchanting melodies of the Pied Piper.

Both of these recordings of Mozart Piano Concertos by Ivan Moravec and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Sir Neville Marriner received global acclaim, and remain among the most perfect interpretations of Mozart's Piano Concertos committed to disc!

"Ivan Moravec is a pianist of uncommon gifts and one of the most sympathetic interpreters of Mozart's music ever to sit at a keyboard. His accounts of these concertos, blend strength and gentleness, spontaneity and calculation, the playful and the serious, in a unique way - stirring in the listener that feeling of elevation that is the hallmark of the very greatest Mozart performances. Marriner and the ASMF attain the same high level of excellence, and the sound is superb." - Ted Libby, NPR