The best Carl Orff Carmina Burana?

And I think I was the only person to recommend the DeBurgos performance on EMI (SAN 162), and that's where I still sit notwithstanding the virtues of the other very worthy candidates that have been mentioned.

Another excellent recording is the Kegel on Philips 6768 070. It may be the most well recorded performance. But like ALL the of the various Orff Carmina Burana's on LP, it unfortunately is compromised by trying to fit too much music onto just two sides of a single LP. Too bad we never got a 3-sided LP version of any one of these excellent performances.

For something different, I still highly recommend the performances from the original Carmina Burana manuscripts by the Clemencic Consort on Harmonia Mundi.

As originals, all the ones mentioned are long out-of-print so you will have to find them used. At least two have been reissued and may still be available as reissues through the usual mail order sources. Speakers Corner reissued the Jochum/DGG recording (DGG SLPM 139362) and it still shows as in-print on their website (but they do not sell direct). I believe Testament once reissued the DeBurgos, but I don't know of any source for that new today. I've heard that the Kegel was once reissued, perhaps by Speakers Corner, but I've never found a source.

In the used market, the Jochum/DGG appears regularly for $10 or so.