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Ray Manzarek: Carl Orff - Carmina Burana

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Label: A&M Records
Released: 1983
Time:
 40:06
Category: Classical
Producer(s): Philip Glas, Kurt Munkacsi
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.raymanzarek.us
Appears with: The Doors
Purchase date: 2000.02.24
Price in €: 10,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


Density: Ruler of the World:
[1] The Wheel Of Fortune
[2] The Wounds Of Fate

Springtime:
[3] The Face Of Spring
[4] Sunrise
[5] Welcome
[6] The Dance
[7] Sweetest Boy
[8] If The Whole World Was Mine

In the Tavern:
[9] Boiling Rage
[10] The Roasted Swan
[11] In The Tavern

The Court Of Love:
[12] Love Flies Everywhere
[13] A Young Girl
[14] Come, My Beauty
[15] The Lovers

Destiny: Ruler Of The World
[16] The Wheel Of Fortune

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Ray Manzarek - Keyboards, Organs, Arrangement, Piano, Vocals
Adam Holzman - Synthesizer
Larry Anderson - Drums
Ted Hall - Guitar
Doug Hodges - Bass
Jack Kripl - Saxophone, Flute
Michael Riesman - Synthesizer

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In 1803 a scroll of medieval poems was discovered in the German province of Bavaria among the debris of the secularized monastery of Benedikt-Beuren ("BURANA").

These lyrics, written primarily in Latin, were determined to be the work of renegade monks and wandering poets of the 13th Century. Their words captured a lost world of rebels and dropouts of the medievil clergy: hard lovers, drinkers, on the move, celebrating existence rather than living the meditative, celibate, cloistered life of the monastery.

In 1935 German composer Carl Orff re-discovered the poems. Impressed withe their meaning and rhythm he composed a cantata utilizing the centuries old verses. He transformed the writings into invocations and profane chants accompanied by numerious instruments and magical representations.

These songs ("CARMINA") were divided into three sections: Springtime-the life force renewed; In the Tavern- drinking and gambling: The Court of Love- passion, sensuality. The sections are pervaded and framed by The Wheel of Fortune ("O Fortuna") perpetually turning, perpetually governing the course of man's existence.

In 1983 Ray Manzarek, long attracted to the spiritual power of CARMINA BURANA, chose to interpret the piece in a contemporary framework. This presentation intends to create enchanted pictures; to conjure up the ectasy expressed in the lyrics, an enhanced intense feeling for life akin to the passions and revelry of the wandering poets of so long ago.
 

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