Omar Khayyam
Album by Bantock; Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Released September 2007
Tracklist
- SACD 1
- 1Omar Khayyam, Part I: PreludeSir Granville Bantock5:55
- 2Omar Khayyam, Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:08
- 3Omar Khayyam, Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:28
- 4Omar Khayyam, Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock2:20
- 5Omar Khayyam, Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock1:45
- 6Omar Khayyam, Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock2:25
- 7Omar Khayyam, Part I: Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:14
- 8Omar Khayyam, Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved)Sir Granville Bantock1:34
- 9Omar Khayyam, Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock6:49
- 10Omar Khayyam, Part I: Some for the glories of this world (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:06
- 11Omar Khayyam, Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved)Sir Granville Bantock1:32
- 12Omar Khayyam, Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:09
- 13Omar Khayyam, Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock1:59
- 14Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock1:55
- 15Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:57
- 16Omar Khayyam, Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved)Sir Granville Bantock2:46
- 17Omar Khayyam, Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock2:33
- 18Omar Khayyam, Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock1:21
- 19Omar Khayyam, Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock2:51
- 20Omar Khayyam, Part I: Earth could not answer. nor the seas that mourn (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:25
- 21Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then of Thee in Me who works behind (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock0:52
- 22Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock2:34
- 23Omar Khayyam, Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock2:25
- SACD 2
- 1Omar Khayyam, Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved)Sir Granville Bantock3:39
- 2Omar Khayyam, Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved)Sir Granville Bantock2:18
- 3Omar Khayyam, Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:32
- 4Omar Khayyam, Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet)Sir Granville Bantock4:01
- 5Omar Khayyam, Part I: Interlude. The DesertSir Granville Bantock1:35
- 6Omar Khayyam, Part I: The CaravanSir Granville Bantock2:58
- 7Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock3:35
- 8Omar Khayyam, Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock2:37
- 9Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock2:34
- 10Omar Khayyam, Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock4:09
- 11Omar Khayyam, Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock3:08
- 12Omar Khayyam, Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock2:11
- 13Omar Khayyam, Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock1:40
- 14Omar Khayyam, Part II: and 'twas - the Grape! - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Philosopher, Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:42
- 15Omar Khayyam, Part II: The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock3:38
- 16Omar Khayyam, Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock1:29
- 17Omar Khayyam, Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock1:42
- 18Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock3:17
- 19Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Revelation of devout and learn'd (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock1:47
- 20Omar Khayyam, Part II: We are no other than a moving row (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock3:19
- 21Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Moving finger writes. and, having writ (Beloved)Sir Granville Bantock1:41
- 22Omar Khayyam, Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet)Sir Granville Bantock1:36
- 23Omar Khayyam, Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock2:10
- 24Omar Khayyam, Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock3:30
- 25Omar Khayyam, Part II: What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock4:41
- 26Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock1:46
- 27Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:39
- SACD 3
- 1Omar Khayyam, Part III: Introduction The Fast of RamazánSir Granville Bantock2:47
- 2Omar Khayyam, Part III: Worshippers in the MosqueSir Granville Bantock4:10
- 3Omar Khayyam, Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock1:00
- 4Omar Khayyam, Part III: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock2:07
- 5Omar Khayyam, Part III: Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot)Sir Granville Bantock6:36
- 6Omar Khayyam, Part III: So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock1:55
- 7Omar Khayyam, Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock2:26
- 8Omar Khayyam, Part III: Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock1:48
- 9Omar Khayyam, Part III: And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher)Sir Granville Bantock2:14
- 10Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock2:35
- 11Omar Khayyam, Part III: Would but the desert of the fountain yield (Poet)Sir Granville Bantock6:34
- 12Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock1:33
- 13Omar Khayyam, Part III: And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)Sir Granville Bantock4:17
More by Bantock, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Release credits
- choir vocals [1.2-3, 1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.18, 1.20, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.10-11, 2.14-15, 2.18-20, 2.26-27, 3.4, 3.6, 3.12-13]
- performing orchestra
- recording
- design
- mezzo-soprano vocals [1.8, 1.11, 1.16, 3.12-13, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.21-22, 2.25-27], solo [1.8, 1.11, 1.16, 3.12-13, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.21-22, 2.25-27]
- booklet editor
- editor
- assistant
- sound
- baritone vocals [3.3, 3.7-9, 3.12-13, 2.8-9, 2.12-14, 2.16-17, 2.24-27, 1.17, 1.23], solo [1.17, 1.23, 2.8-9, 2.12-14, 2.16-17, 2.24-27, 3.3, 3.7-9, 3.12-13]
- chorus master [2.3, 2.6-7, 2.10-11, 2.14-15, 2.18-20, 2.26-27, 1.2-3, 1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.18, 1.20, 3.4, 3.6, 3.12-13]
- solo [1.4-6, 1.9, 1.13-14, 1.19, 1.21-22, 2.4, 2.22-23, 2.25-27, 3.10-13], tenor vocals [3.10-13, 1.4-6, 1.9, 1.13-14, 1.19, 1.21-22, 2.4, 2.22-23, 2.25-27]
- conductor
Issues
O3x SACDSeptember 2007