Carmina Burana (Orff )

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff and is based on 24 poems from the medieval collection 'Carmina Burana'. The original text dates mostly from the 11th or 12th century and covers a wide range of topics, as familiar in those centuries as they are in the 21st century: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling and lust. 

Carmina Burana is structured into five major sections, containing 25 movements in total.

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi Fortune, Empress of the World 
1. O Fortuna 'O Fortune' - choir 
2. Fortune plango vulnera 'I lament the wounds that Fortune deals' - choir 
I – Primo vere 'In Spring' 
3. Veris leta facies 'The joyous face of Spring' - small choir 
4. Omnia Sol temperat 'All things are tempered by the Sun' -baritone 
5. Ecce gratum 'Behold the welcome ' - choir 
Uf dem anger 'In the Meadow' 
6. Tanz 'Dance' - instrumental 
7. Floret silva 'The forest flowers' - choir 
8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir 'Monger, give me coloured paint' - choir (small and large) 
9. a) Reie 'round dance' - instrumental 
b) Swaz hie gat umbe 'They who here go dancing around' - choir 
c) Chume, chum, geselle min 'Come, come, my dear companion' - small choir 
d) Swaz hie gat umbe (reprise) 'They who here go dancing around' - choir 
10. Were diu werlt alle min 'If the whole world were but mine' - choir 
II – In Taberna 'In the Tavern' 
11. Estuans interius 'Seething inside' - baritone 
12. Olim lacus colueram 'Once I swam in lakes' -tenor, choir (male) 
13. Ego sum abbas 'I am the abbot of Cockaigne' - baritone, choir (male) 
14. In taberna quando sumus 'When we are in the tavern' - choir (male) 
III – Cour d'amours 'Court of Love' 
15. Amor volat undique 'Love flies everywhere' - soprano, boys' choir 
16. Dies, nox et omnia 'Day, night and everything' - baritone 
17. Stetit puella 'There stood a girl' -soprano 
18. Circa mea pectora 'In my breast' - baritone, choir 
19. Si puer cum puellula 'If a boy with a girl' - 3 tenors, baritone, 2 basses 
20. Veni, veni, venias 'Come, come, pray come' - double choir 
21. In trutina 'On the scales' - soprano 
22. Tempus est iocundum 'Time to jest' soprano, baritone, boys' choir 
23. Dulcissime 'Sweetest boy' - soprano 
Blanziflor et Helena Blancheflour and Helen 
24. Ave formosissima 'Hail to the most lovely' - choir 
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 'Fortune, Empress of the World' 
25. O Fortuna (reprise) 'O Fortune' - choir