Carmina Burana: Piano

(Schott). Carl Orff's famous work is expertly transcribed for piano by Eric Chumachenco. Carmina Burana , first performed in 1937, is based on an important collection of thirteenth-century poems found in the monastery of Benediktbeuren. Carl Orff made selections from this collection and in robust and delicate musical colors painted a manifold picture of life. "Everything I have written up to now, and which you have unfortunately printed, you can shred into pulp. My collected works begin wit...