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Led by Borja Quintas and Angel Luis Carrillo, the Symphony Orchestra of the UCAM and interpret Discantus Coral Friday, June 6 Cármina Burana, by Carl Orff.
Carmina Burana is a collection of songs goliards the twelfth and thirteenth meeting in manuscript found Benediktbeuern (Germany) in the nineteenth century.
The twentieth century scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff German between 1935 and 1936, used as a text some of these medieval poems.
It premiered on June 8, 1937 at the Alte Oper Frankfurt directed by Oskar Wälterlin.
Carmina Burana means, in Latin, Beuern songs.
Carmen's poem, song or chant and burana is the adjective adjective indicating origin: Bura (the Latin name of the German people Benediktbeuern).
The poems were written about the year 1230, possibly at the Benedictine Abbey of Seckau or monastery Neustift, both in Austria.
They live gala joy and interest in earthly pleasures, by the carnal love and enjoyment of nature and with his satirical social and ecclesiastical estates becomes critical.
In Carmina Burana was satirize and criticize all social classes in general, especially those who held power in the crown and especially the clergy.
The compositions are more features that mimic Kontrafakturen pace with the Litany of the ancient Gospel to satirize the decline of the Roman curia, or to build praise of love, play or especially wine, in the tradition of carmina potoria .
Moreover, narrate events of the Crusades and the abduction of maidens knights.
Carmina Burana forms the first part of the trilogy of cantatas represented Orff calls Triumphs (wins), based on Latin texts.
The other two parts are Carmina and Trionfo di Catulli Afrodite.
The first performance in 1937 was a major stylistic breakthrough that quickly brought fame to Orff.
Furthermore, Orff himself took his most famous work, Carmina Burana, as the real beginning of his career and his editor ordered to destroy all his previous work, an order which, fortunately, was ignored.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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