CARMINA BURANA (Ensemble Unicorn · Oni Wytars Ensemble) Early Music · Alte Nusik Collection Series (2002) Two Version | APE + FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Carmina Burana literally means songs of Beuern. It is a collection of poems and songs in medieval Latin and Middle High German, found in the Benedictine abbey of Benediktbeuern in Upper Bavaria. The manuscript dates from about 1230, with additions from later in the century. The majority of the texts are of French origin, by writers who are mainly anonymous. The 200 or so poems in the collection fall into four groups: songs that have a moral or satirical intention, songs of spring and love, songs of drinking and gambling, and songs with a spiritual content. For the reconstruction of melodies in this recording, reference has been made to the contemporary notation of musicians active in France, to secular German settings derived from surviving works of the German troubadours, and to parallel manuscripts, whereby a new poem is coupled with a known melody. Medieval musicians were past masters at this practice. Some of the texts of Carmina Burana have become widely known through their use by Carl Orff. In their original poetic form and in the music associated with them, the songs have all the exuberance and bawdiness associated with Chaucer. naxos
Tracklist :
1.    Bache, Bene Venies    5:55
2.    Axe Phebus Aureo    5:47
3.    Clauso Cronos    3:07
4.    Katerine Collaudemus    3:27
5.    Fas Et Nefas    3:36
6.    Tempus Transit Gelidum    5:05
7.    Ich Was Ein Chint So Wolgetan    3:14
8.    Ecce Torpet Probitas    6:03
9.    Exiit Diluculo    2:45
10.    Vite Perdite    5:39
11.    Procurans Odium    5:30
12.    Celum, Non Animum    2:58
13.    Tempus Est Iocundum    6:01
Credits :
Ensemble Unicorn ● Michael Posch ● Ensemble Oni Wytars* ● Marco Ambrosini 
Nota :
Cover image: "Farmer's celebration: The nose dance in Gimpelsbrunn" printed at Nikolaus Meldemann (Nuremberg, c. 1530) AKG London