Olim lacus colueram (II. In Taberna)
Carl Orff * Track #12 On Carmina Burana
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Album Carmina Burana
- #1O Fortuna (Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi)
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- #2Fortune plango vulnera (Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi)
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- #3Veris leta facies (I. Primo vere)
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- #4Omnia Sol temperat (I. Primo vere)
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- #5Ecce gratum (I. Primo vere)
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- #6Tanz (Uf dem anger)
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- #7Floret silva (Uf dem anger)
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- #8Chramer, gip die varwe mir (Uf dem anger)
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- #9Reie (Uf dem anger)
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- #10Were diu werlt alle min (Uf dem anger)
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- #11Estuans interius (II. In Taberna)
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- #12Olim lacus colueram (II. In Taberna)
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- #13Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis (II. In Taberna)
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- #14In taberna quando sumus (II. In Taberna)
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- #15Amor volat undique (III. Cour d’Amours)
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- #16Dies, nox et omnia (III. Cour d’Amours)
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- #17Stetit puella (III. Cour d’Amours)
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- #18Circa mea pectora (III. Cour d’Amours)
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- #19Si puer cum puellula (III. Cour d’Amours)
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- #20Veni, veni, venias (III. Cour d’Amours)
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- #21In trutina (III. Cour d’Amours)
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- #22Tempus est iocundum (III. Cour d’Amours)
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- #23Dulcissime (III. Cour d’Amours)
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- #24Ave formosissima (Blanziflor et Helena)
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- #25O Fortuna (reprise, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi)
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Olim lacus colueram (II. In Taberna) by Carl Orff
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This movement of Orff’s Carmina Burana speaks of the pain of a roasted swan, a once majestic bird which has been served up to sate man’s greed. It plays on the idea of the swan song, the beautiful melody such birds were supposed to voice right before their death. Although the mediæval monks who wrot...
Olim lacus colueram (II. In Taberna) Annotated
Latina
[Solo per Tenore e Coro (Tenori e Bassi)]
Cignus ustus cantat:
Olim lacus colueram,
olim pulcher exiteram,
dum cignus ego fueram.
Miser, miser!
modo niger
et ustus fortiter!
Girat, regirat garcifer;
me rogus urit fortiter:
propinat me nunc dapifer.
Miser, miser! etc.
Nunc in scutella iaceo,
et volitare nequeo,
dentes frendentes video:
Miser, miser! etc.
English
[Tenor soloist and male Chorus]
The roasted swan sings:
Once I lived on lakes,
once I looked beautiful,
when I was a swan.
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!
The servant is turning me on the spit;
I am burning fiercely on the pyre:
the steward now serves me up.
Misery me! etc.
Now I lie on a plate,
and cannot fly anymore,
I see bared teeth:
Misery me! etc.
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Olim lacus colueram (II. In Taberna) was written by Carl Orff.
When did Carl Orff release Olim lacus colueram (II. In Taberna)?
Carl Orff released Olim lacus colueram (II. In Taberna) on Tue Jun 08 1937.