Quote Originally Posted by CBM View Post
It is "O Fortuna" which is the opening and closing piece in Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana".





"Carmina Burana" is Latin for "Songs of Buern"; a manuscript of hundreds of Medieval Latin poems and drinking songs was found in the abbey of Buern in 1803 and Carl Orff set 24 of them to music in 1935.

Wikipedia article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana_(Orff)

and the words, in Medieval Latin and in translation, are here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna

It's good stuff.
Nice one, thanks for that. I must say there are quite a few cultured folk about isn't there.

I've thought about spotfiy but I prefer to buy CD's, mainly due to owning a reasonable hi-fi separates system.