Bantock: Omar Khayyam

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Release Date: 1st Sep 2007
Catalogue No: CHAN5051W
Label: Chandos
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Chandos - Downloads at MP3 Prices

Special offer ends: 22/05/2024

Bantock: Omar Khayyam, Part I

Work length1:31:09

$35.70

$44.20

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Toby Spence, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Chorus

Prelude

Track length5:55

$1.05

$1.30

Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus)

Track length2:08

$1.05

$1.30

Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus)

Track length2:28

$1.05

$1.30

And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet)

Track length2:20

$1.05

$1.30

Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet)

Track length1:45

$1.05

$1.30

Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet)

Track length2:25

$1.05

$1.30

Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon (Chorus)

Track length2:14

$1.05

$1.30

Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved)

Track length1:34

$1.05

$1.30

With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet)

Track length6:49

$1.05

$1.30

Some for the glories of this world (Chorus)

Track length2:06

$1.05

$1.30

Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved)

Track length1:32

$1.05

$1.30

Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus)

Track length2:09

$1.05

$1.30

I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet)

Track length1:59

$1.05

$1.30

Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet)

Track length1:55

$1.05

$1.30

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus)

Track length2:57

$1.05

$1.30

Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved)

Track length2:46

$1.05

$1.30

Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher)

Track length2:33

$1.05

$1.30

What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus)

Track length1:21

$1.05

$1.30

Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet)

Track length2:51

$1.05

$1.30

Earth could not answer. nor the seas that mourn (Chorus)

Track length2:25

$1.05

$1.30

Then of Thee in Me who works behind (Poet)

Track length0:52

$1.05

$1.30

Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn (Poet)

Track length2:34

$1.05

$1.30

I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher)

Track length2:25

$1.05

$1.30

As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved)

Track length3:39

$1.05

$1.30

So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved)

Track length2:18

$1.05

$1.30

Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus)

Track length2:32

$1.05

$1.30

When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet)

Track length4:01

$1.05

$1.30

Interlude. The Desert

Track length1:35

$1.05

$1.30

The Caravan

Track length2:58

$1.05

$1.30

A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus)

Track length3:35

$1.05

$1.30

Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher)

Track length2:37

$1.05

$1.30

A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher)

Track length2:34

$1.05

$1.30

Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit (Chorus)

Track length4:09

$1.05

$1.30

Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus)

Track length3:08

$1.05

$1.30

Bantock: Omar Khayyam, Part II

Work length39:48

$16.80

$20.80

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Roderick Williams, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, BBC Symphony Chorus, Toby Spence

You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher)

Track length2:11

$1.05

$1.30

Ah, but my computations, people say (Philosopher)

Track length1:40

$1.05

$1.30

and 'twas - the Grape! - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Philosopher, Chorus)

Track length2:42

$1.05

$1.30

The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus)

Track length3:38

$1.05

$1.30

Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher)

Track length1:29

$1.05

$1.30

I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher)

Track length1:42

$1.05

$1.30

Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus)

Track length3:17

$1.05

$1.30

The Revelation of devout and learn'd (Chorus)

Track length1:47

$1.05

$1.30

We are no other than a moving row (Chorus)

Track length3:19

$1.05

$1.30

The Moving finger writes. and, having writ (Beloved)

Track length1:41

$1.05

$1.30

And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet)

Track length1:36

$1.05

$1.30

With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet)

Track length2:10

$1.05

$1.30

I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher)

Track length3:30

$1.05

$1.30

What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)

Track length4:41

$1.05

$1.30

Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

Track length1:46

$1.05

$1.30

Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

Track length2:39

$1.05

$1.30

Bantock: Omar Khayyam, Part III

Work length40:02

$13.65

$16.90

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Chorus, Olivia Robinson, Toby Spence, Catherine Wyn-Rogers

Introduction The Fast of Ramazán

Track length2:47

$1.05

$1.30

Worshippers in the Mosque

Track length4:10

$1.05

$1.30

As under cover of departing day (Philosopher)

Track length1:00

$1.05

$1.30

Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small (Chorus)

Track length2:07

$1.05

$1.30

Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot)

Track length6:36

$1.05

$1.30

So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus)

Track length1:55

$1.05

$1.30

Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher)

Track length2:26

$1.05

$1.30

Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher)

Track length1:48

$1.05

$1.30

And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher)

Track length2:14

$1.05

$1.30

Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet)

Track length2:35

$1.05

$1.30

Would but the desert of the fountain yield (Poet)

Track length6:34

$1.05

$1.30

Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

Track length1:33

$1.05

$1.30

And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

Track length4:17

$1.05

$1.30

Offer,Bantock: Omar Khayyam

Downloads

Contents

Download queue