Next Sunday, April 28th at 19.30 at the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, Filarmonía de Madrid offers one of the most acclaimed concerts of its season: Carl Orff‘s Carmina Burana.
For this occasion, the artistic director of Filarmonía de Madrid, Pascual Osa, has designed a programme in two parts. In the first part, the Concerto for horn and orchestra in B flat major, op. 91 composed by Reinhold Glière and performed on this occasion by the soloist of the Munich Philharmonic, Matías Piñeira.
In the second part of the concert, the Orquesta Filarmonía will be joined by the more than 400 choristers who make up the Coro Filarmonía, the Coro Participativo and the Coro del Colegio Sámer Calasanz. The first two will be conducted by the conductor of the Coro Filarmonía, Rafael Albiñana, and the latter by conductor Antonio Ramírez. Together with the soloists Bianca Tognocchi (soprano), Christian Gil-Borrelli (countertenor) and Antonio Torres (baritone), they will perform the scenic cantata which brings together a collection of medieval poems from the 12th and 13th centuries, whose authors were students and clerics.
The Carmina Burana is made up of this collection of medieval poems, gathered in a manuscript found in Germany. In it, earthly pleasures and carnal love are extolled, thus criticising the social and ecclesiastical elements of the time.
Carl Orff, a German composer of the early 20th century, orchestrated this series of pieces, making them still popular today and popular even among those who do not know much about classical music, a real achievement. Tickets for the concert can be purchased here.
