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Carl Orff - Der Mond (“The Moon”)
opera in one act (1939)

Nº. 2 “Was ist das? Was ist das für ein Licht?”
(“What’s that? What kind of light is that?”)

Münchener Rundfunkorchester
Kurt Eichhorn, cond.

Carl Orff’s first opera occupied his efforts during the time when his famed Carmina Burana was being premiered. It recounts a Grimm fairy tale in which four brothers who live in a country where it is pitch black at night visit a neighboring land to discover that a mysterious light fastened to the top of the tree illuminates the darkness there. They decide to steal it for their own country—to disastrous consequences, of course. Fans of Orff’s well-known cantata may recognize strong similarities with the instrumental dance which opens the Uf dem Anger section of that work.