In Taberna Quando Sumus - Carmina Burana (14) - Carl Orff

[Atma505]

... IO!

[mostlyharmless11]

god, this one's a tongue twister

[darkprose]

@livert6740h Uh, music?

[HomelyCooking]

Ah, drink: the great equalizer. The boy, the priest, the old woman, the white man, the black man; we are all one people when we're stinking drunk.

[TheSacredSound6]

@HomelyCooking I hope you're not encouraging underage drinking with that comment!

[HomelyCooking]

@TheSacredSound6 Not any more than the song already does.

[BizCasFri]

This bit always reminds of the main theme from Chrono Trigger. Love it!

[power7154]

EXCELLENT

[DooDLar2231]

Sooo... the other day me and like 6 of my friends broke into this one at my school's courtyard :D it was kinda awesome haha we totally drew a crowd

[blabla10291]

man, it's so awesome to see this live! I've been to a outside concert, unfortunately it started to thunder and rain. (the thunder made a nice atmosphere, i must say) At the end of this song ( around 3:04), there was a hugh thunderclap behind the stage. it was a perfect timing! hopefully someone filmed it..

[sbutler0727]

I guess you would say this piece is sort of the classical equivalent of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"! It is an absolute musical tour de force! This piece, if not played with absolute skill and precision, can become almost a parody of itself. In the hands of Mr. Ozawa, that certainly is not true. Brilliantly done! Thank you.

[darkprose]

@sbutler0727 You are most welcome. If you want the complete recording of this Burana, in higher quality mp3 than here, please just send me a message and your email address to my YouTube inbox.

[Shaggysan]

@darkprose I want it!

[TheEmperorChing23]

What is the orchestration for this piece?

[darkprose]

@TheEmperorChing23 What do you mean? The composers orchestration? I don't have a score available, I'm afraid...

[valmikib]

bad pronunciation, i mean, if someone has actually produced that, why not take care of something so easy to manage and yet so absolutly important in singing as it is fonetics 

[valmikib]

bad pronunciation, i mean, if someone has actually produced that, why not take care of something so easy to manage and yet so absolutly important in singing as it is fonetics

[seyin800]

if you think about it, ... this is sooo dramatically sung. After all as far as i learned this was just a song performed by drunks in bars -_-' they just sang it to mock the higher ups.

[agent885]

Orff was never a member of the Nazi Party. Thus, he was not a Nazi. In fact, he claimed to be a member of the White Rose resistance (this is disputed) and much of the research that has cast Orff as compliant with the Hitler regime has now been recanted. Anyone who claims Orff was a Nazi or that his behavior (exactly what behavior?) relegates him a sympathizer simply doesn't know the facts.

[Gheorgyi]

I wonder why Youtube eliminated the video with Giuseppe Sinopoli conducting the Dresden Staatskapelle. THAT was good.

[hullaballoo84]

@Errenton We'll have to agree to differ on that. My historical readings indicate that he prolifically believed in Nazism. I can only say that his recorded behaviour during and after the Nazi reign would have put him as a Nazi.

It's not hugely important given the fact that you have to acknowledge this great piece of music for what it is, but it's important to point out the polity behind it.

[darkprose]

@hullaballoo84 I think that politics is one question, music another. I don't think it is important to know one jot about the historical circumstances about this piece of music to appreciate it qua music. In fact, if the entire recorded history of its composition were to disappear, the music would still be entirely what it is: magnificent. A thing is entirely separate from its causal genesis.

[Gheorgyi]

@hullaballoo84What makes you think from this piece "he believed in Nazism"?? "Prolifically"??!!! "Polity"??!!! WHAT does that mean HERE??!!! For Pete's sake... Gheorghij

[Bluehawk2008]

It's not really clear if Orff was a national socialist through and through, but he made no effort to protest anything going on around him. He even refused to help a friend during his arrest because it would ruin his career.

[dotdashslashslash]

I had the honor of getting to sing Carmina Burana at Carnegie Hall with my choir and a couple other's! = best moment of my life so far. Especially since the bass section went right behind the timpani drums.:D But we didn't have brass.D: just two pianos. Great pianists though.xD

[darkprose]

@dotdashslashslash Sounds like quite an event!

[rafaelpereira87]

@dotdashslashslash I've heard that the original Carmina Burana was composed for just two pianos and percussion, the orchestra was added later on. But wow, it sounds like the event of a lifetime indeed! I'll have the honor of singing it next week with a couple of choirs, and a full-featured orchestra :)

[fantasy2author]

I think that this may be the ultimate song for the male choir except for maybe "O welche Lust" by Beethoven.

[darkprose]

@pokemonmariofan98 Good luck! Hope it goes well.

[hullaballoo84]

Carl Orff was a staunch Nazi, for anyone who cares.

[darkprose]

@hullaballoo84 That is a shame.

[Errenton]

@hullaballoo84 No, he was not. He was commissioned by the Nazis to create this version of the Carmina Burana as part of the plan to show Germany's supremacy over all other peoples. The mistake is easy to make.

[warrat300]

What are the lyrics to that?

[darkprose]

@warrat300 I would just type in "In Taberna..." in Google or Bing along with "lyrics." There will be many hits worth looking at.

[theZer0Game]

@warrat300 In taberna quando sumus, noncuramus quid sit humus, sed ad ludum properamus, cui semper insudamus, Quid agatur in taberna ubi nummus est pincerna, hoc est opus ut queratur, sic quid loquar, audiatur, hoc est opus ut queratur, sic quid loquar, audiatur. Quidam ludunt, quidam bibunt, quidam indiscrete vivunt. Sed in ludo qui morantur, ex his quidam denudantur, quidam ibi vestiuntur, quidam saccis induuntur. Ibi nullus tement mortem, sed pro Baccho mittunt sortem.

[alfonso6191]

i remember singin this piece for TMEA. awesome experience :D ♥♫

[Lievcocijo]

why is the beggining so freakyn low in every version?, i have to turn the volume up and then suddenly OC EST OPUS UT QUERATUR SI QUID LOQUAR AUDIATUR!!!!!

[darkprose]

@Lievcocijo It's the extreme dynamics of the song.

[efhc12]

Qui nos rodunt confundantur

et cum iustis non scribantur.

Io!

[Fan666Maiden]

I must say, I still prefer the Corvus Corax version. It fits the "drinking song" thing much better.

[Blacksun388]

I did this peice in the TMEA competition once. Very fun and energetic peice.

[wimboddin]

@Blacksun388 piece* lol

[Blacksun388]

@wimboddin grammer nazi.

[wimboddin]

@Blacksun388 i know, i had an englisch exam yesterday and piece was on my voc list so,, :)

[Blacksun388]

@wimboddin Whats sad is that i'm a sophomore in college and I still can't spell that word right.

[marcusaureliooze]

What's up with all the pauses?

[peileii]

Good to hear a version of In Taberna performed very well. This is, in my opinion, the hardest movement in Carmina Burana to coordinate both the orchestra and choir. As a result, most of the recordings are harsh. Thanks for the posting.

[sartanko]

Damn, this is dark and heavy.

[doc365123]

lets just put our beer mugs in the air and drink to the best things in life. and as rodney king once said...."can't we all get along".... just enjoy the music.

[nasharussia89]

5 STARS!!!!!great!!!!dai troppo bello..

[jeanmolin55]

Ottima interpretazione !

BRAVI BRAVI BRAVI

5***** !!!

Grazie per il post e

grazie Fan !

[bkennedytx1]

Thanks for sharing this.

[minancoras]

It is nice and well done... why Youtube seem to be more and more a place for people to put their stingy anger and negative criticisms? We read so many unpleasant words over here... Than God we have a lot psting positive points of view too, why being so unpleasant? Let's make the world a better place starting from our desks!

[darkprose]

Hear, hear!

[galliumarsenide]

I don't agree completely, it has its good parts, but in this bit the choir is often rather imprecise (temporally) and unclean. But well, it's about the best we can get on youtube.. ;-)

and I really liked that one can listen to the entire thing here. (thx darkprose!)

On the other hand I also find it retarded to generally condemn any negative criticism. I think there should be room for that too, as long as it's justified. which is not the case mostly. ;)

[Blacksun388]

@minancoras The reason that youtube is a place for negative criticism is anonimity. You could be anyone online and therefore could say almost anything online without fear of reprisal.

[dolofonos]

@minancoras Truth does not have the convenience of being so pleasant as one would have it. But you are probably right in questioning it here . . . even the most valid of negative comments is often received in anger with its content utterly unacknowledged.

[BMWMarv]

@minancoras Because everywhere else we have to be civil, polite, and politically correct because either our boss will fire us, our client will not come back, our choir director will boot us, or some other crap. If I go to a comment board, I can say "you know, the tenors rush the end of EVERY SINGLE PHRASE IN THIS SONG" because I have performed it countless times and have wanted to say that to every director I have ever had. I can't get kicked out, fired, censured, or not re-hired for saying it

[azarimanka]

this is shite - a waste of a 13th century poem

[micanotengonick]

let me see u do better... lol

[azarimanka]

certainly - its not difficult: first one takes the shite music off it, second one pays ome attention to latin rythym and pronunciation and finally, if it is to be sung at all - which it is not entirely certain it was, one should apply a tune more suited to the time. This is shit, but mican, I doubt you understand the words, its just a pretty sound to you - you do not realise how badly it has been mangled

[darkprose]

Putting a poem to music does not destroy the integrity of the poem itself, the poem remains untouched, just as book that has been made into a film still remains the same book. If you don't like Orff's music, fine, but it hasn't wasted anything. The solution: don't listen to Orff's music.

[Deathrune456]

i wouldnt be to elitist in the affairs of a drinking song anyway, azarimanka!

[berlingoski]

@azarimanka It's thanks to Carl Orff that the whole world got to know a poem that would have otherwise remained forever unknown.

[azarimanka]

@berlingoski clearly they were not unknown otherwise they would not have been set to music, and, since most people are too ill educated to understand them they are still unknown...

[eitanmest]

Genial,ca me rappelle l'epoque ou j'ai appris le latin medieval a la fac de Poitiers.

[rockclimber21]

lol @ 1:44 tuba

[silverhawk151]

Man singing this is a real tongue twister

[jeanpiaget007]

It's the dynamics. Like this interpretation, thanks!

[alastaron48]

its not too loud :S

[milosbar]

Then i guess its my sound system, thanks anyway

[milosbar]

I love this whole work, thanks for uploading it, but it seems the volume is pretty low

[darkprose]

Hmmm, I just listened to it again, adjusted my controls so that they are at about 30% and it sounds normal to me. Granted, this particular song does start off quietly and does have dramatic dynamics.

[wimboddin]

@milosbar yes it is