Epic

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

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Silly, sometimes, but epic.

[Darlica]

I predict that Carl Orff is spinning in his grave when hearing this...


Which is a good thing IMHO.

Thank you for sharing!



If you like the sound of bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy and don't mind the lyrics being in a crazy  moon language you should check out the Swedish/Finnish group Hedningarna (trans. the pagans), you can always ask me to translate form Swedish for you...

http://www.last.fm/music/Hedningarna?setlang=en 

For good traditional mediaeval religious music (in Latin) try The Hilliard Ensemble, Codex Speciálník, music from a Prague manuscript c 1500. Absolutely beautiful! I usually play this album a lot around Christmas instead of listening to the ever present modern Christmas-carols. 

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I have that CD, and a bunch more of medieval music.

I can't listen to the first thing (I'm on my phone), but being someone who likes Orff, I'm already suspicious.

[Darlica]

It's fun!

It's a song from Carmina Burana but in a rather wild interpretation.
Orff was a National Romantic and his interpretations of mediaeval music tends to be more "mediaeval" than they probably was in the middle ages, if you catch my drift.

To a lot of people I've met who are really into mediaeval music saying Carl Orff is like waving a red banner in front of a bull. Orff's music for Carmina Burana is a lot of things but it's not mediaeval, it's a bit pompous for my taste but the choruses are magnificent in their own right.