Two worlds collide

There are times when I wonder how some of my customers can get so muddled about the music they are looking for. I daresay we've all been there - in my case, I got confused between Handel and Haydn as a child - but there are some pieces you just couldn't mistake for each other.

A customer came in today looking for what he thought was Handel's Messiah, only it turned out to be Orff's Carmina burana. One's about Christian redemption, the other depicts medieval monks drinking and fornicating. Besides their both being large-scale works for voices and orchestra, I'm struggling to find anything they have in common.

Over to you.