Adagietto | Carl Orff - Carmina Burana | O Fortuna @Adagietto | Uploaded February 2012 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
"Everything I have written to date can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana my collected works begin." Carl Orff writting to his publishers, Schott

"O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

The text for Carmina Burana is drawn from the collection of sometimes bawdy twelfth-century Latin and German Poems written by the monks of Benediktbeuem.

Carl Orff repudiated its conservative trainning through an early infactuation with the music of Debussy and Schoenberg. In the 1920s, he began to immerse himself in the works of Monteverdi and other seventeenth-century masters.

Coro Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
Orchestra Camera Fiorentina
Pianist: Francesco Romano
Conducted by Ennio Clari
20.XII.11
(www.corocarifirenze.it)