Carmina Burana - Carl Orff (DVD)

Songs from Medieval Bavaria

Advantages: A fine mixture of gothic, medieval and modern music and words. You will know some of the themes - it will repay study. This is a superb rendition.
Disadvantages: None

?Si puer cum puellula moraretur in cellula, felix coniunctio. Amore suscrescente, partier e medio avulso procul tedio, fit ludus ineffabilis membris lacertis labiis? I decided to try my hand at a review of a piece of classical music. My CD library has a fair smattering of conventional pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikowsy and Brahms. Of course you will have known by now my interest in Gilbert and Sullivan, but I have chosen instead to look at this sensational work from the 1930s by Carl Orff ?Carmina Burana? (Songs, secular and profane). It is one of those works that has been subject to ?borrowing? from the mass media and its main theme will be extremely well known. However, the whole work does repay some study and is well worth a listen. It has a curious history with shades of dissolute monks, lusty wenches, inns filled ...

Newfloridian 16.05.2003 · Read full review
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Dishwater or British pride? (Carling Lager)

Advantages: Cheap.
Disadvantages: Weak watery taste.

I like beer, as do many of us, but after a recent holiday in Belgium I have come back a bit of a beer snob. The beer in Belgium (mainstream beer too) is wonderful, full of rich flavours and has a decent kick to it which is different to many mainstream beers found in the UK. I know you can get good Real Ales in the UK but I thought I would look at a selection of the more popular beers you can get easily throughout the UK starting with Carling. The tin of carling I have chilling in my fridge contains 440ml of 4% vol beer and cost me £1.09. The tin is black and white and boasts that Carling is made with British barley and has been for over 30 years, the beer is made from 100% British barley and that the beer offers a complete flavour and refreshment for all. I will put the latter to the test shortly. The tin also contains nutritional ...

StephenPhillips123 20.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Carling Black Label Lager

Carling! MMMMMMMMMMM!

Advantages: It tastes great
Disadvantages: It gets you drunk

The official sponsor of The Leeds Festival 2007. The Carling story dates back to 1818 when Thomas Carling, a farmer in England's Yorkshire district, took his family to the rich farmlands of eastern Canada settling at what is now the city of London, Ontario. During his first year there Tom Carling cleared a small area. Then,in accordance with the custom of the day, he called on his neighbors to help at a "stumping bee", a cooperative effort in which each man brought his own oxen and tools and the land was cleared of tree stumps. All that these helpful neighbors asked was that they be refreshed and fed Thomas Carling's refreshment, a home-brewed ale, was of such quality that soon he was brewing it for other stumping bees. In time, it grew so popular that he abandoned farming for full-time brewing. The first Carling ...

damob123 29.08.2007 · Read full review
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