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Songs of everyday life and love!

Carl Orff's dramatic and powerful work Carmina Burana is performed here by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and features soprano Janice Harsanyi, tenor Rudolf Petrak, baritone Harve Presnell, and the Rutgers University Choir. The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and Cassettes called this performance "quite splendid, one of Ormandy's most inspired recordings."

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