svg]:overflow-visible">Listen to article • 0:00 minO cruel fortune! So much gambling! Poverty! This hateful life!Such is the exclamatory chorus, sung in Medieval Latin, that opens Carmina Burana, the Carl Orff choral work reminding us that raging against the wheel of life — plus the joys that come with it — remains timeless.This life-and-death panorama echoing the 13th century, heard in numerous film soundtracks, ignited the Philadelphia Orchestra Friday and is likely to be one of the most popular concerts this season.Pungent, lyrical, sexy, intoxicated, and with a constantly racing pulse, the 1937 Carmina Burana has composer Orff (1895-1982) seizing upon poems...