‘Over the years, Carmina Burana has had most of its finest moments cherry-picked and bowdlerised for use in adverts and films. But heard live, Carl Orff’s cantata, first staged in 1937, is a roaring beast of a score, its massed voices, pagan rhythms and uninhibited extremes holding you captive for its full 65-minute duration…

‘the fantastic Ex Cathedra’

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