Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff and is based on 24 poems from the medieval collection 'Carmina Burana'. The original text dates mostly from the 11th or 12th century and covers a wide range of topics, as familiar in those centuries as they are in the 21st century: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling and lust.
Carmina Burana is structured into five major sections, containing 25 movements in total.
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: 1. O Fortuna
2. Fortune plango vulnera
I Primo vere: 3. Veris leta facies
4. Omnia sol temperat
5. Ecce gratum
Uf dem anger: 6. Tanz
7. Floret silva
8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir
9. Reie
Swaz hie gat umbe
Chume, chum, geselle min
Swaz hie gat umbe
10. Were diu werlt alle min
II In Taberna: 11. Estuans interius
12. Olim lacus colueram
13. Ego sum abbas
14. In taberna quando sumus
III Cour d'amours: 15. Amor volat undique
16. Dies, nox et omnia
17. Stetit puella
18. Circa mea pectora
19. Si puer cum puellula
20. Veni, veni, venias
21. In trutina
22. Tempus et iocundum
34. Dulcissime
Blanziflor et Helena: 24. Ave formosissima
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: 25. O Fortuna
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