"Everything I've written so far, you can now stamp on it. My collected works begin with Carmina Burana." These were Carl Orff's words to his publisher Ludwig Strecker in Frankfurt in 1937. He himself described the three-part work as secular songs for soloists and choir accompanied by instruments and magical images.

The Czech Symphony Orchestra gives the work a powerful musical performance. The Coro di Praga frames the play with a powerful chorus of homage to the goddess Fortuna, whose wheel of fortune stands for the ups and downs of human life.

The well-known opening of Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the text from Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy is a fitting accompaniment: "Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, daughter of Elysium."

Beethoven worked on this masterpiece for more than half a decade in a state of complete deafness. The triumphant farewell with which the Prague choir brings the two largest concert halls in Berlin to life has an impressive effect that exudes happiness.

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