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
Cantus Buranus live album and DVD: "Cantus Buranus - Live in Berlin". Cantus Buranus Cantus Buranus is an album by the German medieval revival band Corvus Corax that employs the medieval text "Carmina Burana". "Cantus Buranus" is a stage opera of eleven poems from "Carmina Burana" for orchestra, choir and medieval instruments, incorporating medieval, classical and modern musical idioms. It is not the first time Corvus Corax has worked with "Carmina Burana"; the band Tanzwut (which is another Corvus Corax project) used the poems "Fautue" and "Caupona" in their album "Ihr Wolltet Spass". The "Cantus Buranus" CD was released August 8, 2005