Bantock: Omar Khayyam

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Omar Khayyam (more info)
Performed by: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Granville Bantock
Conducted by: Vernon Handley
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, contralto
Toby Spence, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone


1.   Part I: Prelude - 5:54
2.   Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus) - 2:08
3.   Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus) - 2:28
4.   Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet) - 2:20
5.   Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet) - 1:45
6.   Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet) - 2:25
7.   Part I: Whether at Naishapur or Babylon (Chorus) - 2:14
8.   Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved) - 1:34
9.   Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet) - 6:49
10.   Part I: Some for the glories of this world; and some (Chorus) - 2:06
11.   Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved) - 1:32
12.   Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus) - 2:09
13.   Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet) - 1:59
14.   Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet) - 1:55
15.   Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus) - 2:57
16.   Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved) - 2:46
17.   Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher) - 2:33
18.   Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus) - 1:21
19.   Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet) - 2:51
20.   Part I: Earth could not answer; nor the seas that mourn (Chorus) - 2:25
21.   Part I: Then of the Thee in Me wo works behind (Poet) - 0:52
22.   Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthern urn (Poet) - 2:34
23.   Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher) - 2:23

Omar Khayyam (more info)
Performed by: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Granville Bantock
Conducted by: Vernon Handley
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, contralto
Toby Spence, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone


1.   Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved) - 3:39
2.   Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved) - 2:18
3.   Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus) - 2:32
4.   Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet) - 4:01
5.   Part I: Interlude - the Desert - 1:35
6.   Part I: The Caravan - 2:58
7.   Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus) - 3:35
8.   Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher) - 2:37
9.   Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher) - 2:34
10.   Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit - (Chorus) - 4:09
11.   Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus) - 2:59
12.   Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher) - 2:11
13.   Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say - and 'twas - the Grape! (Philosopher, Chorus) - 1:40
14.   Part II: The Grape that can with logic absolute (Chorus) - 2:42
15.   Part II: The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus) - 3:38
16.   Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher) - 1:29
17.   Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher) - 1:42
18.   Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus) - 3:17
19.   Part II: The Revelations of devout and learn'd - 1:47
20.   Part II: We are no other that a moving row (Chorus) - 3:19
21.   Part II: The Moving finger writes; and, having writ (Beloved) - 1:41
22.   Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet) - 1:36
23.   Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet) - 2:10
24.   Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher) - 3:30
25.   Part II: What! Out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) - 4:41
26.   Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) - 1:46
27.   Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) - 2:35

Omar Khayyam (more info)
Performed by: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Granville Bantock
Conducted by: Vernon Handley
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, contralto
Toby Spence, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone


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

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