New Carmina, No. 4
Dum iuventus floruit is No. 4 from the cycle New Carmina - a project initiated by the Vocalforum Graz and their director Franz M. Herzog. Twelve internationally renowned European composers accepted the invitation and have each composed a setting of one of the chosen texts of the Carmina Burana. In this way, there arose a complex, well-knit, full-length choral work – an impressive symbiosis between the witty text inserts, the medieval texts and the completely innovative, original ways in which the choral music, with its diversity of contemporary musical languages, treated these.
The text Javier Busto set in his composition - Dum iuventus floruit (In the bloom of youth) - tells about self-knowledge that takes effect: "In my youth, I lived out my passions. I hope I will be smarter and more sensible in my old age …"
