Afternoon delight? An afternoon programme by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra featuring Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Brahms' Third and shorter pieces by Schreker and Harry Sdraulig offers pleasant but somewhat underwhelming impressions.
Mahler and Schubert: masters of both song and symphony. Read reviews of. Related articles. More by Alan Yu. Alan Yu. For 7 years he presented classical music programmes for Radio Television Hong Kong, partly to pay his way through university. He attends concerts whenever he can and believes there is no substitute for the thrill of live performances. But following World War I, he became less interested in experimental tonality than in the rhythmic foundations of musical expression.
This turn in his career took Orff down two parallel paths. He was especially drawn to the works of Claudio Monteverdi, mainly because they featured an archaic form of declamation with strong rhythmic stresses that appealed to Orff and remained a hallmark of all his own later compositions. For example, between and he arranged and produced the St. The songs over of them were written in a mix of Latin, German and medieval French by the Goliards, a band of poet-musicians comprising scholars and clerical students, who celebrated with earthy humour the joys of the tavern, nature, love and lust.
Although Orff set the original texts, he chose not to use the primitive musical notation that accompanied some of the songs. Written between and for soloists, choruses and orchestra, it was originally conceived as a choreographed stage work. Why is Carmina Burana so popular? Perhaps it is the simple, repeated melodies, and the insistent rhythms.
It is also the connection between past and present, the yanking of early medieval poetry into the present day and the universality of the human experience that we discovered in the process. Carl Orff was a German composer known mainly for his cantata Carmina Burana and his large contribution to music education.
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