DESCRIPTION:
Carmina Burana - Ego sum abbas
Composed by Carl Orff

Recorded live - October 18, 2002, 8pm
Grace Church, NYC

Jason Robinette - www.tenorjasonrobinette.com
The Choral Society of Grace Church
John Maclay, conductor

Simon Yates & Timothy Mueller, accompanists

I am the abbot of Cucany
and I like to drink with my friends.
I belong from choice to the sect of Decius,
and whoever meets me in the morning at the tavern

by evening has lost his clothes,
and thus stripped of his clothes cries out:
Wafna! Wafna!
What has thou done, O wicked fate?
All the pleasures of this life
thus to take away!

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