Carmina Burana (album) Carmina Burana (album) Carmina Burana is the third solo album by Ray Manzarek released in 1983. It is a recording of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana". Music composed by Carl Orff. Original Latin lyrics adopted to English (C) B. Schott's Söhne by permission of European American Music Cover art features photo-montage of illustrations by Hieronymus Bosch (spelled on original release as Hieronymus Beach) and Jan van Eyck ("Arnolfini Portrait") and modern items like guitar, drums, reel-to-reel and keyboards. Cover design by Lynn Robb. Photography by Larry Williams. Principal Singers In 1983 Ray Manzarek, long attracted to the spiritual power of "Carmina
Carmina Burana example of the religious rites of this order, the "Officium lusorum", the "Service", or "Mass", "of the Gamblers". In this parody world, the rules of priesthood include sleeping in, eating heavy food and drinking rich wine, and regularly playing dice games. These rules were described in such detail that older research on the "Carmina Burana" took these descriptions literally and assumed there actually existed such a lazy order of priests. In fact, though, this outspoken reverie of living delights and freedom from moral obligations shows "an attitude towards life and the world that stands in stark contrast to the firmly