Carmina burana

If ever there was music meant to mimic the rush of blood through the veins of youth, this is it: Lusty love songs, drinking anthems, pagan celebrations, and odes to the moon, mined from medieval texts, have made this choral thriller a favorite since its creation nearly a century ago. This headlong rush to passion is the climax of a trio of thrilling works, from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s wild orchestral ride to Gabriela Ortiz’s beguiling imaginings of the love story between Clara and Robert Schumann.