Carl Orff: Die Kluge/Der Mond
Carl Orff: Die Kluge/Der Mond
Classical | 2CD | APE+CUE 686 MB | Booklet
Carmina Burana is Karl Orff's Pyrric victory. Its tremendous success, particularly in the USA, has consigned his other work to obscurity. But Orff is much more than the composer of one great popular piece of music and children's music. Orff had an original operatic vision and a theatrical gift that is inexplicably forgotten today. This is hard to understand, given the two thoroughly enjoyable works on this CD. ~Christopher Forbes
CD1 Die Kluge, opera
Composed by Carl Orff
Performed by London Philharmonia Orchestra
with Gottlob Frick, Marcel Cordes, Paul Kuen, Benno Kusche, Rudolf Christ, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Georg Wieter, Hermann Prey, Gustav Neidlinger
Conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch
CD2 Der Mond, opera
Composed by Carl Orff
Performed by Philharmonia Chorus (Children's Chorus), London Philharmonia Orchestra
with Karl Schmitt-Walter, Paul Kuen, Albrecht Peter, Hans Hotter, Rudolf Christ, Peter Lagger, Willy Rosner, Helmut Graml, Teresa Holloway
Conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, Wilhelm Pitz