Andre Previn - Orff: Carmina Burana

Epic, Brilliant, Stunning Sonics!
Audiophile XRCD24 Mastered from the Original Analogue EMI Master Tapes!
Can Be Enjoyed On Any CD Player!

This recording of Carmina Burana dates from the zenith of André Previn's golden era at the helm of the London Symphony Orchestra and has been newly mastered from the original stereo EMI Master Tapes.

Recorded November 25-27, 1975 at London's famous Kingsway Hall.

"The music is vivid and vibrant... There were two advantages of the 1998 and 2010 EMI discs over the company's very first CD mastering: Superior sonics and a cheaper price... Now, the sound is even better in Hi-Q's audiophile remastering, and it makes Previn's interpretation, full of love and lust and other sensual delights, an even greater delight... Hi-Q use the JVC XRCD K2 disc processing system... the process is about as precise and accurate as you can get in transferring an analogue tape signal to compact disc... As usual, I put the Hi-Q disc into one CD player and the latest EMI issue into another... [T]he biggest improvements I noticed were in the quieter moments of the music, the wider dynamic range and greater lucidity of the Hi-Q product effecting a better low-level response... Hi-Q Records package the disc in a very substantial and beautifully illustrated Digipak, with note pages fastened book-like inside. As always, it's a first-class presentation." - John J. Puccio, Classical Candor, November 13, 2012

Features:
• Mastered from the Original Analogue EMI Master Tapes!
• Superior Audiophile XRCD24
• XRCD24 is a standard "Red Book" CD and can be enjoyed on any CD player

Musicians:
Sheila Armstrong, soprano
Gerald English, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
London Symphony Orchestra Chorus
The Clement Danes Grammar School Boys Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn, conductor

Carl Orff (1895-1982)
Carmina Burana (Cantiones profanae)
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
1. O Fortuna
2. Fortune plango vulnera
I Primo Vere (Spring)
3. Veris leta facies
4. Omnia sol tempera
5. Ecce gratum
Uf Dem Anger (On the green)
6. Tanz
7. Floret silva
8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir
9. (a) Reie (b) Swaz hie gat umbe (c) Chume, chum, geselle min
10. Were diu werlt alle min
II In Taberna (In the tavern)
11. Estuans interius
12. Olim lacus colueram
13. Ego sum abbas
14. In taberna quando sumus
III Uf Dem Anger (On the green)
15. Amor volat undique
16. Dies, nox et omnia
17. Stetit puella
18. Circa mea pectora
19. Si puer cum puellula
20. Veni, veni, venias
21. In trutina
22. Tempus est iocundum
23. Dulcissimo
Blazinflor et Helena
24. Ave formosissima
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
25. O Fortuna