London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Shostakovich & Orff
You may recognise Carl Orff’s endlessly hummable cantata, but you’ve never heard it quite like this.
In Medieval Bavaria, monks copied down a collection of mischievous songs by vagabond poets. In 1935, a German composer came across a second-hand book containing the songs and used it to create a blazingly exciting choral extravaganza. Pounding rhythms, catchy tunes, sonorous Latin verses about wine, women and song – Orff’s Carmina Burana might have been an idiosyncratic hit, but it remains absolutely irresistible.
It’s paired with Shostakovich’s Third Symphony, which appears on the surface as an energetic paean to Soviet ideals – until you catch a glimpse of the underlying irony. Gianandrea Noseda steers the powerful forces of the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a rousing climax to the season.
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Christina Poulitsi soprano
Sunnyboy Dladla tenor
Elliot Madore baritone
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Shostakovich & Orff
You may recognise Carl Orff’s endlessly hummable cantata, but you’ve never heard it quite like this.
In Medieval Bavaria, monks copied down a collection of mischievous songs by vagabond poets. In 1935, a German composer came across a second-hand book containing the songs and used it to create a blazingly exciting choral extravaganza. Pounding rhythms, catchy tunes, sonorous Latin verses about wine, women and song – Orff’s Carmina Burana might have been an idiosyncratic hit, but it remains absolutely irresistible.
It’s paired with Shostakovich’s Third Symphony, which appears on the surface as an energetic paean to Soviet ideals – until you catch a glimpse of the underlying irony. Gianandrea Noseda steers the powerful forces of the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a rousing climax to the season.
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Performers
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Christina Poulitsi soprano
Sunnyboy Dladla tenor
Elliot Madore baritone