Following up on Zaku’s thinking, I would suggest Carmina Burana, a cantata based on Medieval poems in Latin, Middle High German and old French, so there is no worry about understanding the text. Carl Orff set these to music in an eerie and compelling cantata in 1936. Music is rhythmic, raucous, tender, funny, haunting and memorable. (Satire, love songs, parodies, drinking songs…)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana