Wednesday 28 April 2021

Energetic and powerful about human desires and vices.

Due to the corona situation, the concert programs can be changed in the very short term, which contributes to the fact that printed programs are not practical as the situation is now. We hope for your understanding of this.

Carl Orff's spectacular masterpiece, composed in 1935/36, is probably one of the most performed choral works from the last century, and brings enormous energy and raw power to human desires and vices, longing, despair, rebellion, love and intoxication.

The texts are taken from the manuscript Carmina Burana, which consists of over 300 texts of medieval poetry found in the monastery of Benediktbeuern in Germany. Orff selected 24 of these texts for his work.

The work does not have a concrete course of action, but follows the annual cycle. The work opens and rounds off with "O Fortuna", a complaint about the power of fate, and in the meantime we are in spring, out in the meadow, in the inn, and we get to hear songs about love.

Tonight's version of the work is arranged for soloists, choir, percussion and two pianos. Both the soprano Lina Johnson and the baritone Audun Iversen are well-known names to the public in Bergen, and the countertenor David Hansen is referred to as a vocal phenomenon without equal.