Omar Khayyam

Album by Sir Granville Bantock & Catherine Wyn-Rogers & Toby Spence & Roderick Williams & BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra & Vernon Handley

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Prelude
    5:55
  2. 2.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus)
    2:08
  3. 3.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus)
    2:28
  4. 4.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet)
    2:20
  5. 5.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet)
    1:45
  6. 6.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet)
    2:25
  7. 7.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon (Chorus)
    2:14
  8. 8.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved)
    1:34
  9. 9.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet)
    6:49
  10. 10.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Some for the glories of this world (Chorus)
    2:06
  11. 11.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved)
    1:32
  12. 12.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus)
    2:09
  13. 13.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet)
    1:59
  14. 14.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet)
    1:55
  15. 15.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus)
    2:57
  16. 16.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved)
    2:46
  17. 17.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher)
    2:33
  18. 18.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus)
    1:21
  19. 19.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet)
    2:51
  20. 20.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Earth could not answer. nor the seas that mourn (Chorus)
    2:25
  21. 21.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then of Thee in Me who works behind (Poet)
    0:52
  22. 22.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn (Poet)
    2:34
  23. 23.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher)
    2:25

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved)
    3:39
  2. 3.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved)
    2:18
  3. 4.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus)
    2:32
  4. 5.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet)
    4:01
  5. 6.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Interlude. The Desert
    1:35
  6. 7.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: The Caravan
    2:58
  7. 8.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus)
    3:35
  8. 9.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher)
    2:37
  9. 10.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher)
    2:34
  10. 11.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit (Chorus)
    4:09
  11. 12.
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus)
    3:08
  12. 13.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher)
    2:11
  13. 14.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say (Philosopher)
    1:40
  14. 15.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: and 'twas - the Grape! - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Philosopher, Chorus)
    2:42
  15. 16.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus)
    3:38
  16. 17.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher)
    1:29
  17. 18.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher)
    1:42
  18. 19.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus)
    3:17
  19. 20.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Revelation of devout and learn'd (Chorus)
    1:47
  20. 21.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: We are no other than a moving row (Chorus)
    3:19
  21. 22.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Moving finger writes. and, having writ (Beloved)
    1:41
  22. 23.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet)
    1:36
  23. 24.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet)
    2:10
  24. 25.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher)
    3:30
  25. 26.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)
    4:41
  26. 27.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
    1:46
  27. 28.
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
    2:39

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Introduction The Fast of Ramazán
    2:47
  2. 4.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Worshippers in the Mosque
    4:10
  3. 5.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher)
    1:00
  4. 6.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small (Chorus)
    2:07
  5. 7.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot)
    6:36
  6. 8.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus)
    1:55
  7. 9.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher)
    2:26
  8. 10.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher)
    1:48
  9. 11.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher)
    2:14
  10. 12.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet)
    2:35
  11. 13.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Would but the desert of the fountain yield (Poet)
    6:34
  12. 14.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
    1:33
  13. 15.
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
    4:17

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