Orff: Carmina Burana

"There is no question the tingling energy which informs Franz Welser-Most's performance of Carmina burana, which reaches its climax in the ''Cours d'amour'' sequence where both the Boys' and Men's Chorus get carried away by the exhilaration of the joys of physical love. ''Oh, oh, oh I am bursting out all over'' has seldom been sung with such vehemence on record, and the double chorus ''Veni veni, venias'' has even greater vigour. Earlier in the Tavern sequence, the baritone, Jeffrey Black, makes a formidably solemn Abbot and again the choral response is full of adrenalin. The new recording, made at Abbey Road, is brilliant and clear" Gramophone on the original release