Carmina Burana with Barts Choir
Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, SE1 8XX , [Venue Details]Hear Carl Orff’s ever-popular work, which sets medieval songs to music of barbaric splendour, together with two Vaughan Williams pieces.
Barts Choir presents three 20th-century classics.
Carl Orff’s most popular work was inspired by the composer’s discovery of a collection of medieval songs in Latin and Old German.
As he wrote later, ‘The goddess Fortuna must have been smiling on me when, as if by chance, she put a copy of a catalogue in my hands’. That catalogue contained the Carmina Burana (Songs of Beuren) texts.
Setting these revolutionised Orff’s own musical style, with simple tunes, driving rhythms, repeated bass figures and brilliant and percussive orchestrations, which influenced much later music, particularly for film and television.
The concert opens with Toward the Unknown Region, setting words by Vaughan Williams’ favourite poet, Walt Whitman, and concluding triumphantly with a blaze of choral and instrumental sound.
This is followed by his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, where the composer takes the original Tudor hymn tune and transforms it into music of transcendent beauty and power.
Repertoire
Vaughan Williams: Toward the unknown region for chorus & orchestra; Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Interval
Orff: Carmina Burana
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Admission: £18.50
Performer name: Trafalgar Sinfonia, Ivor Setterfield - conductor, Barts Choir
Other key names: Soloists to be announced, Children's choir to be announced
Age restriction: For ages 7+
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Carmina Burana with Barts Choir
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 @7.30pm
Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, SE1 8XXMore Information
Hear Carl Orff’s ever-popular work, which sets medieval songs to music of barbaric splendour, together with two Vaughan Williams pieces.
Barts Choir presents three 20th-century classics.
Carl Orff’s most popular work was inspired by the composer’s discovery of a collection of medieval songs in Latin and Old German.
As he wrote later, ‘The goddess Fortuna must have been smiling on me when, as if by chance, she put a copy of a catalogue in my hands’. That catalogue contained the Carmina Burana (Songs of Beuren) texts.
Setting these revolutionised Orff’s own musical style, with simple tunes, driving rhythms, repeated bass figures and brilliant and percussive orchestrations, which influenced much later music, particularly for film and television.
The concert opens with Toward the Unknown Region, setting words by Vaughan Williams’ favourite poet, Walt Whitman, and concluding triumphantly with a blaze of choral and instrumental sound.
This is followed by his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, where the composer takes the original Tudor hymn tune and transforms it into music of transcendent beauty and power.
Repertoire
Vaughan Williams: Toward the unknown region for chorus & orchestra; Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Interval
Orff: Carmina Burana
Admission: £18.50
Performer name: Trafalgar Sinfonia, Ivor Setterfield - conductor, Barts Choir
Other key names: Soloists to be announced, Children's choir to be announced
Age restriction: For ages 7+
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