André Rieu - O Fortuna (Carl Orff - C a r m i n a B u r a n a )

André Rieu

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André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra performing O Fortuna from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. For tour dates visit: http://www.andrerieu.com

Recorded live in the Amsterdam ArenA where André Rieu builed the biggest stage ever: a replica of the Viennese palace 'Schönbrunn'.

L y r i c s :

O Fortuna

velut luna

statu variabilis,

semper crescis

vita detestabilis

aut decrescis; nunc obdurat

ludo mentis aciem,

et tunc curat egestatem, potestatem

et inanis,

dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis rota tu volubilis,

et velata

status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata

michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris.

semper in angaria.

Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus

mecum omnes plangite!

Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem,

and waning;

English translation:

O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing hateful life

Fate -- monstrous

first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; poverty and power it melts them like ice. and empty,

and veiled

you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain and always fades to nothing, shadowed you plague me too;

and weighted down,

now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy. Fate is against me in health and virtue, driven on always enslaved.

everyone weep with me!

So at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating strings; since Fate

strikes down the strong man,

everyone weep with me!

"ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΚΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΡΙΑΣ"