CARMINA BURANA by Carl Orf

Just been watching You Tube videos and came across Carl Orf's Carmina Burana performed by the BBC orchestra at the Proms 1994.

I knew the words (in Latin I think) were quite bawdy but I did not imagine there were elements of spanking in them!

In the fourth part (I believe) the women sang, "Shopkeeper, give me something to redden my cheeks so that I can catch young men for love-making." !!

Ok, he probably meant facial cheeks! But I can hope!

(Anyone interested in listening to the clip its at 24 minutes in).

I recall asking a friend if he liked Carl Orff's work and he replied F*** Orff. So I left.

Looking at this picture of Sir Simon Rattle and Barbara Hannigan there should have been a spanking in this orchestral performance.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalconcertreviews/11347283/Simon-Rattl e-with-Barbara-Hannigan-and-London-Symphony-Orchestra-Barbican-review-in-his-element. html

Try this from Handel's "Alcina": you have to wait through quite a lengthy build-up before Bradamante finally gets what s/he is expected to do to Morgana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=288&v=8Uv5YbetNOs

Here's another link to the background to this clip: quite interesting.

https://mainstreamspanking.wordpress.com/category/opera/

It's actually middle German:

Chramer, gip die varwe mir
die min wengel roete,
damit ich die jungen man
an ir dank der minnenliebe noete.
Seht mich an, jungen man!
Lat mich iu gevallen!

Much shorter clip (3:24) with subtitles, since thepreacher's wife didn't translate the above:

Thanks for sending me off to sleep with a big smile on my face!😁