Xian Conducts Carmina Burana

Kodály’s love for his native Hungary is evident in this sparkling and tuneful dance suite, inspired by the folk songs he heard in the small market town where he spent part of his childhood.

Your first time to hear the oboe d’amore? This duskier cousin of the modern oboe has a soulful, sweet sound that Bach adored and placed at the center of this piece of reverence and reflection.

Medieval monks had more on their minds than scripture–women, beer and the ever-turning wheel of fate most prominent. Orff set their words to dramatically colorful music in his iconic Carmina Burana.