James Tobin wrote:

>Alberto Larzabal wonders if there is a recording of:
>
>>...kind of version of Monteverdi's Orfeo composed by Orff.  It's
>>something like a cantata with the musical ideas of Monteverdi and
>>the sonority of Carl Orff.
>
>There was a 1975 recording by a German label I don't know--Acanta,
>in Hamburg.  The work is an opera in three acts, adapted from
>Monteverdi, in German, but with an Italian title: L'Orfeo, Favola in
>Musica di Claudio Monteverdi.  ...

I reported a couple months ago that I had purchased this recording.  It
was reissued on Acanta as part of a Karl Orff series in 1992.  The copy
I got was in a record sale in HMV London.  I also purchased Promethius
and Catulli Carmina.  The last item is the only one I found remotely
attractive.

These discs are very cheap super budget and have surprisingly good sound
quality.

Promethius had no notes at all.  Orfeo had good notes about the work as
does Catulli Carmina.  But neither had an english translation.

Regarding the Orfeo, I'll stick with Monteverdi!

Bob Draper
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