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| Released | 1983 | |||
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| Length | 39:57 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Philip Glass, Kurt Munkacsi | |||
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Carmina Burana is the third solo album by Ray Manzarek released in 1983. It is a recording of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana . [1]
Cover art features photo-montage of illustrations by Hieronymus Bosch (spelled on original release as Hieronymus Beach) and Jan van Eyck ( Arnolfini Portrait ) and modern items like guitar, drums, reel-to-reel and keyboards. Cover design by Lynn Robb. Photography by Larry Williams.
Music composed by Carl Orff. Original Latin lyrics adopted to English (C) B. Schott's Söhne by permission of European American Music
Principal Singers
In 1983 Ray Manzarek, long attracted to the spiritual power of Carmina Burana , chose to interpret the piece in a contemporary framework. This presentation intends to create enchanted pictures; to conjure up the ecstasy expressed by the lyrics, an enhanced intense feeling for life akin to the passions and revelry of the wandering poets of so long ago. [2]
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