Sarasota Orchestra – Carmina Burana

Chicago's Grant Park Chorus, the 60-voice ensemble of the Grant Park Music Festival under chorus director Christopher Bell, comes south to join Giancarlo Guerrero and the Sarasota Orchestra at the Van Wezel for Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, the 1930s cantata on medieval Latin and German verse whose "O Fortuna" has turned up in films, television and video games. Soprano Jana McIntyre and baritone Troy Cook share the solos with countertenor Logan Tanner, who takes the lament of the roasting swan. Before intermission the orchestra has the stage to itself in Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra, a 1950s showpiece built on Polish folk tunes that gives every section a turn in the spotlight.