Hungarian atmospheric black metal tandem WitcheR has served a special cover song and music video of "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's well-known composition Carmina Burana.
The song is a taste from WitcheR's upcoming EP, Boszorkányszimfóniák, which contains cover songs of many classical compositions from composers such as Tchaikovsky, Handel, Grieg, Chopin, Williams and Orff. The EP will be out on 8 May through Filosofem Records on CD, tape and digitally. Link
Boszorkányszimfóniák tracklist:
1. Hymn of the Cherubim - Op. 41, No. 6. (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky cover)
2. Sarabande - Suite No. 4 in D Minor, HWV 437 (Georg Friedrich Händel cover)
3. Åses død (The Death of Ase) - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, No. 2. (Edvard Grieg cover)
4. Spring Waltz (Mariage d'Amour) - (Frédéric Chopin cover)
5. Three Shakespeare Songs: The Cloud-Capp’d Towers - No. 2 (Ralph Vaughan Williams cover)
6. Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi - 1. O Fortuna (Carl Orff cover) 03:05
7. Summernight Melancholy (bonus track)
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