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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In 13th century Bavaria, a song-loving crew of university and monastery dropouts put together what might be considered the first boxed set: a collection of lyrics that celebrated religion, love, and a ...

This Sunday, the Los Angeles Master Chorale will fill the sails of Walt Disney Concert Hall with that stormy, earwormy cantata by Carl Orff: “Carmina Burana.” The chorale will be joined by an ...

Composer Carl Orff included a children's chorus in "Carmina Burana" to convey a sense of innocence in an otherwise tumultuous and tainted world. The Pennsylvania Academy of Music Children's Chorus ...

David Shaler remembers reading that "Carmina Burana" is performed by someone in some part of the world on a daily basis. Sure, it's a vague reference, but the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra's ...