Marcel Cordes (1920-1992) was a German baritone, active in opera and concert repertory. He became associated with German stage and broadcast performance after the Second World War.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Wolfgang Sawallisch’s 1956 recording of Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Cordes’s singing brought firm baritone presence to Orff’s theatrical choral world, where rhythm, declamation and colour matter as much as conventional lyric beauty.

His page is justified by secure identity and repertory context. Cordes gives the Orff shelf a strong baritone stamp.