Carmina Burana

by Ray Manzarek

Carmina Burana cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: A&M
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:56
  • Community rating: 3.21/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The former Doors keyboardist completely reimagines Carl Orff's iconic cantata through the lens of dense, synthesizer-heavy progressive rock. Featuring Philip Glass as a co-producer, the audacious classical crossover heavily relies on complex analog keyboard orchestrations.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. The Wheel Of Fortune (O Fortuna) (3:06)
  2. The Wounds Of Fate (Fortune Plango) (3:44)
  3. The Face Of Spring (Veris Leta Facies) (4:16)
  4. Sunrise (Omnia Sol Temperat) (2:14)
  5. Welcome (Ecce Gratum) (2:46)
  6. The Dance (Tanz) (2:25)
  7. Sweetest Boy (Dulcissime) (0:34)
  8. If The Whole World Was Mine (Were Diu Werlt) (0:50)
  9. Boiling Rage (Estuans Interius) (3:14)
  10. The Roasted Swan (Olim Lacus) (2:11)
  11. In The Tavern (In Taberna) (2:33)
  12. Love Flies Everywhere (Amor Volat) (2:08)
  13. A Young Girl (Stetit Puella) (2:54)
  14. Come, My Beauty (Veni Veni Venias) (2:36)
  15. The Lovers (Blanziflor Et Helena) (1:16)
  16. The Wheel Of Fortune (O Fortuna) (3:09)

Credits

  • Ray Manzarek - primary artist, arranged by, piano, organ, keyboards [misc.], keyboard organ piano
  • Doug Hodges - bass, bass guitar
  • Carl Orff - composed by
  • Larry Anderson - drums, membranophone
  • Ted Hall - guitar
  • Hieronymus Beach - illustration [adapted from hieronymus bosch and jan van eyck paintings]
  • Bob Ludwig - lacquer cut by
  • Hieronymus Bosch - painting [semi-credited] [combination of various painting extracts]

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