Renato Vinicius asks:

>Which are the "best" recordings of Carmina Burana available?

My two favorites:  Fruebeck de Burgos on EMI.  Best choral work, with the
choir trained by choral legend Wilhelm Pitz.  Kegel on Berlin Classics -
the only recording to play Orff's work in the orchestration Orff specifies.

I do like the Shaw on Telarc and also Michael Tilson Thomas on Sony, but
not as much.

Steve Schwartz