This is evening, I took out Orff Carmina Burana. It was very musical and for those who are not familiar with the classical music, you would often find the usic very familiar as many part of this music have been often "extracted" out to be used in the various TV commercials sound track! Perhaps that is the power of classical music?!Som background information from the net:
Orff is most known for Carmina Burana (1937), a "scenic cantata". It is the first of a trilogy that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. Carmina Burana reflected his interest in medieval German poetry. Together the trilogy is called Trionfi, or "triumphs". The composer described it as the celebration of the triumph of the human spirit through sexual and holistic balance. The work was based on thirteenth-century poetry found in a manuscript dubbed the Codex latinus monacensis found in a Bavarian monastery in 1803 and written by the Goliards; this collection is also known as Carmina Burana. While "modern" in some of his compositional techniques, Orff was able to capture the spirit of the medieval period in this trilogy, with infectious rhythms and easy tonalities. The medieval poems, written in an early form of German and Latin, are often racy, but without descending into smut.
Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Orff
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