Carmina Burana | Colston Hall

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

Concert for St Peter's Hospice

Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra,City of Bristol Choir and other singers for a stunning full-scale performance of Carl Orff's bawdy Carmina Burana. With lyrics from the Middle Ages expressing a lusty enjoyment of early desires,Carmina Burana is a passionate and highly dramatic work written for massive choral and orchestral forces. The brass fanfare of Shostakovich's Festive Overture opens the concert followed by Dvořák's ever-popularSymphony from the New World.

Conductors William Goodchild andDavid Ogden

Soprano Lorna James

Tenor Alun Rhys-Jenkins

Bass Leigh Melrose

Shostakovich Festive Overture

Dvořák Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’

Orff Carmina Burana

Saturday 15 November 2014 at Colston Hall Bristol