That old warhorse, Carmina Burana, may well have you sitting up in your seat, too. The very first bars come as a shock with the `a' of `Fortuna' cut off extremely short by the choir. The crispness and clarity in the singing are characteristic of the whole performance: there are many caesuras used to great effect throughout and the tempi are often markedly different from what we've become used to. The rich upholstery of the strings under the soprano's In trutina is almost worth the price of the discs alone. But it seems to me all absolutely honest to the faux naivete of Orff's writing with the emphasis on clarity at all times.
