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Omar Khayyam Bantock; Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Release: Sep 2007 United Kingdom, Language: , Status: Official
Format: SACD + SACD + SACD, Tracks: 63, Length: 2:51:27, Barcode: 095115505120
Release type: Album

Contents

SACD #1
1 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Prelude 5:55
2 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus) 2:08
3 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus) 2:28
4 Omar Khayyam, Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet) 2:20
5 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet) 1:45
6 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet) 2:25
7 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon (Chorus) 2:14
8 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved) 1:34
9 Omar Khayyam, Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet) 6:49
10 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Some for the glories of this world (Chorus) 2:06
11 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved) 1:32
12 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus) 2:09
13 Omar Khayyam, Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet) 1:59
14 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet) 1:55
15 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus) 2:57
16 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved) 2:46
17 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher) 2:33
18 Omar Khayyam, Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus) 1:21
19 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet) 2:51
20 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Earth could not answer. nor the seas that mourn (Chorus) 2:25
21 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then of Thee in Me who works behind (Poet) 0:52
22 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn (Poet) 2:34
23 Omar Khayyam, Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher) 2:25
SACD #2
1 Omar Khayyam, Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved) 3:39
2 Omar Khayyam, Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved) 2:18
3 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus) 2:32
4 Omar Khayyam, Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet) 4:01
5 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Interlude. The Desert 1:35
6 Omar Khayyam, Part I: The Caravan 2:58
7 Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus) 3:35
8 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher) 2:37
9 Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher) 2:34
10 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit (Chorus) 4:09
11 Omar Khayyam, Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus) 3:08
12 Omar Khayyam, Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher) 2:11
13 Omar Khayyam, Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say (Philosopher) 1:40
14 Omar Khayyam, Part II: and 'twas - the Grape! - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Philosopher, Chorus) 2:42
15 Omar Khayyam, Part II: The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus) 3:38
16 Omar Khayyam, Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher) 1:29
17 Omar Khayyam, Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher) 1:42
18 Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus) 3:17
19 Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Revelation of devout and learn'd (Chorus) 1:47
20 Omar Khayyam, Part II: We are no other than a moving row (Chorus) 3:19
21 Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Moving finger writes. and, having writ (Beloved) 1:41
22 Omar Khayyam, Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet) 1:36
23 Omar Khayyam, Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet) 2:10
24 Omar Khayyam, Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher) 3:30
25 Omar Khayyam, Part II: What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) 4:41
26 Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus) 1:46
27 Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus) 2:39
SACD #3
1 Omar Khayyam, Part III: Introduction The Fast of Ramazán 2:47
2 Omar Khayyam, Part III: Worshippers in the Mosque 4:10
3 Omar Khayyam, Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher) 1:00
4 Omar Khayyam, Part III: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small (Chorus) 2:07
5 Omar Khayyam, Part III: Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot) 6:36
6 Omar Khayyam, Part III: So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus) 1:55
7 Omar Khayyam, Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher) 2:26
8 Omar Khayyam, Part III: Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher) 1:48
9 Omar Khayyam, Part III: And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher) 2:14
10 Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet) 2:35
11 Omar Khayyam, Part III: Would but the desert of the fountain yield (Poet) 6:34
12 Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus) 1:33
13 Omar Khayyam, Part III: And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus) 4:17

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