Carmina Burana

Orff - Wagner - Whitacre

Wagner's Siegfried Idyll radiates tenderness through wonderfully expressive orchestration, while Whitacre's delicate and haunting songs for voices, piano and violin capture all the magic of falling in love. By complete contrast, in Orff's colourful and exciting Carmina Burana, the arrival of spring and summer warms the blood - chorus, orchestra and soloists bring you everything from pagan rhythms to glowing lyricism as they conjure up lustful medieval high-jinks and timeless desires!