Whether you know it as the great choral number from Carmina Burana or simply as The X Factor song, most of us have heard the magnificent ‘O Fortuna’. But what is the choir actually singing about? ‘O ...

Music from Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana,' featuring Marin Alsop conducting the Bournemouth Symphony, from a recording which will be released on the Naxos label in January 2007: If I could only take one ...

It is one of the most recognisable and, thus, one of the most played pieces of classical music – Carmina Burana. It’s a cantana by German composer Carl Orloff. The music was written in 1935. However, ...

Carmina Burana was the title of a collection of medieval Latin and German lyrics published in 1847, taken from a 13th century manuscript then in the possession of a Benedictine abbey near Munich. To ...