• A joyful celebration welcoming the New Year, this Gala from Berlin presents the world-renowned Berlin Philharmonic,
conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, in Carl Orff’s famous Carmina Burana, an intensely dramatic cantata that remains one
of the most widely performed works from the twentieth century

• With an exceptional vocal line-up – soprano Sally Matthews, tenor Lawrence Brownlee and baritone Christian
Gerhaher

• Featuring the Rundfunchor Berlin with Chorus Master Simon Halesey as well as the Knabenchor des Staats- und
Domchores Berlin

• Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is one of the most popular and exiting classical works

• Christian Gerhaher had received his second Echo-Klassik in the year of the recording of this performance

• This is the only Carmina Burana on Blu-ray Disc to date