Rhythm is the driving force behind Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Whether loud and bombastic or sorrowful and gut-wrenching, this work is intensely dramatic. The musical setting of twenty-five poems is sung in medieval Latin and German. Conducted by choral master Robert Shaw, an excerpt of this powerful performance was chosen for the soundtrack of the movie, The Doors.

Track Listing
Introduction: Fortune, Empress of the World (Nos. 1, 2)
Part I: In Springtime (Nos. 3-5), On the Lawn (Nos. 6-10)
Part II: In the Tavern (Nos. 11-14)
Part III: The Court of Love (Nos. 153), Blanziflor and Helena (No. 24), Fortune, Empress of the World (No. 25)
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes