Hartford Symphony Orchestra of Carl Orff’s "Carmina Burana". After hearing the piece for the first time, audiences jumped to their feet with standing ovations and the local papers overflowed with excellent reviews. On March 27, 1957 the Symphony recorded "Carmina Burana" on the Vanguard record label. Fritz Mahler continued the Hartford Symphony’s recording project with the Vanguard label, recording three new albums: Berlioz’s Requiem, Gustav Mahler’s Das Klagende Lied, and Bloch’s Three Jewish Poems for Orchestra and Copland’s Variations for Orchestra & Fanfare for the Common Man. The sixties opened with a general sense of uneasiness amongst the Hartford Symphony administration over the
Carl Orff Orff was buried in the Baroque church of the beer-brewing Benedictine priory of Andechs, south of Munich. His tombstone bears his name, his dates of birth and death, and the Latin inscription (the Ultimate End), which is taken from the end of . Orff is best known for "Carmina Burana" (1936), a "scenic cantata". It is the first part of a trilogy that also includes "Catulli Carmina" and "Trionfo di Afrodite". "Carmina Burana" reflected his interest in medieval German poetry. The trilogy as a whole is called "Trionfi", or "Triumphs". The composer described it as the celebration of the triumph