
Date of issue: 14.07.2012
Song language: English
O Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana |
O Fortuna |
velut luna |
statu variabilis, |
semper crescis |
aut decrescis; |
vita detestabilis |
nunc obdurat |
et tunc curat |
ludo mentis aciem, |
egestatem, |
potestatem |
dissolvit ut glaciem. |
Sors immanis |
et inanis, |
rota tu volubilis, |
status malus, |
vana salus |
semper dissolubilis, |
obumbrata |
et velata |
michi quoque niteris; |
nunc per ludum |
dorsum nudum |
fero tui sceleris. |
Sors salutis |
et virtutis |
michi nunc contraria, |
est affectus |
et defectus |
semper in angaria. |
Hac in hora |
sine mora |
corde pulsum tangite; |
quod per sortem |
sternit fortem, |
mecum omnes plangite! |
O Fortune, |
like the moon |
you are constantly changing, |
ever waxing |
and waning; |
hateful life |
now oppresses |
and then soothes |
as fancy takes it; |
poverty |
and power |
it melts them like ice. |
Fate — monstrous |
and empty, |
you whirling wheel, |
you are malevolent, |
well-being is vain |
and always fades to nothing, |
shadowed |
and veiled |
you plague me too; |
now through the game |
I bring my bare back |
to your villainy. |
Fate, in health |
and virtue, |
is against me |
driven on |
and weighted down, |
always enslaved. |
So at this hour |
without delay |
pluck the vibrating strings; |
since Fate |
strikes down the strong man, |
everyone weep with me! |
Name | Year |
---|---|
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi / O Fortuna | 1967 |
Carmina Burana ft. Serge Tchaikov, Russian State Symphony Chorus | 2010 |
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi / O Fortuna I | 1967 |
Primo Vere / Omnia Sol Temperat | 1967 |