1983,
United States
00:39:58;
73M;
256S;
335;
-
The Wheel of Fortune
- 3:05
-
The Wounds of Fate
- 3:45
-
The Face of Spring
- 4:15
-
Sunrise
- 2:14
-
Welcome
- 2:45
-
The Dance
- 2:26
-
Sweetest Boy
- 0:33
-
If the Whole World Was Mine
- 0:53
-
Boiling Rage
- 3:15
-
The Roasted Swan
- 2:11
-
In the Tavern
- 2:35
-
Love Flies Everywhere
- 2:08
-
A Young Girl
- 2:53
-
Come, My Beauty
- 2:36
-
The Lovers
- 1:16
-
The Wheel of Fortune
- 3:08
Catherine Aks - vocals [principal singers]
Ma Premm Alimo - vocals [principal singers]
David Anderle - a&r [a&r guidance & direction]
Larry Anderson - drums
Hieronymus Bosch - artwork by [illustration]
Joe Chiccarelli - mixed by
Bruce Fifer - vocals [principal singers]
Philip Glass - producer
Ted Hall - guitar
Maryann Hart - vocals [principal singers]
Cindy Heuues - vocals [principal singers]
Doug Hodges - bass
Adam Holzman - synthesizer
Michael Hume - vocals [principal singers]
John Beverly Jones - recorded by
Jack Kripl - saxophone, flute
Elliot Levine - vocals [principal singers]
Ray Manzarek - arranged by, piano, organ, keyboards [misc.]
Kurt Munkacsi - producer
Dora Ohrenstein - vocals [principal singers]
Carl Orff - composed by
Michael Riesman - arranged by [orchestrations], conductor, synthesizer
Lynn Robb - design
Patrick Romano - vocals [principal singers]
Clay Rose - engineer [2nd]
Imball Wheeler - vocals [principal singers]
Larry Williams - photography
Gene Wooley - engineer [2nd]
From liner notes:
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 medieval 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 with their meaning and rythm he composed a cantata utilizing the centuries old verses. He transformed the writings into invocations and profane chants accompanied by numerous instruments and magical representations.
These songs ("CARMINA") were devided into three primary 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 existance.
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 ecstasy expressed by the lyrics, an enhanced intense feeling for life akin to the passions and revelry of the wandering poets of so long ago.
Latin Lyrics: © 1937 by B. Schott's Soehne, copyright renewed.
English Adaptation: © 1938 B. Schott's Soehne by Permission Of European American Music Distributors Corp. Sole U.S. agent for B. Schott's Soehne.
All songs published by B. Schott's Soehne-EAM (BMI)
Audio Master Plus series
A&M Records, 394 945-2
