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Orff: Carmina Burana
Yeree Suh (soprano), Yves Saelens (tenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone)
Anima Eterna Brugge, Collegium vocale gent & Cantate Domino, Jos van Immerseel
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th November 2014
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Choral & Song Choice
Immerseel plus Anima Eterna spells revisionism, and that is what you get here: a Carmina Burana retooled with instruments of its period, and stripped of back-projected late-Romantic cushiness...The...
Orff: Carmina Burana
Yeree Suh (soprano), Yves Saelens (tenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone)
Anima Eterna Brugge, Collegium vocale gent & Cantate Domino, Jos van Immerseel
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th November 2014
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Choral & Song Choice
Immerseel plus Anima Eterna spells revisionism, and that is what you get here: a Carmina Burana retooled with instruments of its period, and stripped of back-projected late-Romantic cushiness...The...
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Surprise: Anima Eterna tackles Carmina Burana!
Often described as ‘music for amateurs’, sometimes used (or misused) towards purely commercial ends, Orff’s Carmina Burana was clearly ready for a new approach, a sort of revivifying, thorough rethinking. This has now been done, thanks to Jos van Immerseel and the absolutely exceptional musical team that he assembled.
Faithful to what accounts for the force of his musical approach, Jos van Immerseel profoundly revolutionizes the sound image and interpretation of this score, thanks both to the very high quality of the chosen performers and to the singularity of the instruments and timbres of his orchestra.
So it is a very new way of approaching this work that Jos van Immerseel proposes, open-minded, without concession but with the great pleasure and joy of simply making music.
Contents and tracklist
- Yeree Suh, Cantate Domino, Thomas Bauer, Collegium Vocale Gent, Yves Saelens, Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel
- Recorded: 19-20 February 2014
- Recording Venue: Concertgebouw Brugge, Belgium
Spotlight on this release
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Jos van Immerseel conducts Carmina Burana
10th Nov 2014
James listens to Jos van Immerseel's new recording of the chamber version of Carl Orff's famous Carmina Burana.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week10th November 2014
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BBC Music MagazineFebruary 2015Choral & Song Choice
February 2015
Immerseel plus Anima Eterna spells revisionism, and that is what you get here: a Carmina Burana retooled with instruments of its period, and stripped of back-projected late-Romantic cushiness...The scaled-down vocal forces also bring the work's monastic origins into sharper focus...For its palate-tingling revelations and suffusing musicality, this would now be my Carmina of first reference.
14th December 2014
One of the most popular and at the same time one of the most reviled choral works of all time comes up startlingly fresh in Jos van Immerseel’s totally rethought approach...The results are razor-sharp, emphasising the Stravinsky-like crystalline edginess of the textures, and the brilliant if brutal imagination behind them.
28th November 2014
Brushing off the dust, applying a new coat of paint: the warhorses of the repertoire regularly need this kind of attention...Their goal, [Immerseel] says, was to reach an interpretation that came “as close as possible to Orff’s artistic DNA”. The stamping rhythms still stamp away, but they do so with dappled colours and an unusually light, lithe gait.
