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,
Toby Spence, tenor
Roderick Williams,


1. Part I: Prelude - 05:53:59
2. Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus) - 02:08:00
3. Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus) - 02:28:00
4. Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet) - 02:19:59
5. Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet) - 01:45:00
6. Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet) - 02:24:59
7. Part I: Whether at Naishapur or Babylon (Chorus) - 02:14:00
8. Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved) - 01:34:00
9. Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet) - 06:49:00
10. Part I: Some for the glories of this world; and some (Chorus) - 02:05:59
11. Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved) - 01:32:00
12. Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus) - 02:08:59
13. Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet) - 01:59:00
14. Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet) - 01:54:59
15. Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus) - 02:57:00
16. Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved) - 02:46:00
17. Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher) - 02:33:00
18. Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus) - 01:21:00
19. Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet) - 02:51:00
20. Part I: Earth could not answer; nor the seas that mourn (Chorus) - 02:24:59
21. Part I: Then of the Thee in Me wo works behind (Poet) - 00:51:59
22. Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthern urn (Poet) - 02:33:59
23. Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher) - 02:23:00

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


1. Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved) - 03:38:59
2. Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved) - 02:17:59
3. Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus) - 02:32:00
4. Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet) - 04:00:59
5. Part I: Interlude - the Desert - 01:34:59
6. Part I: The Caravan - 02:57:59
7. Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus) - 03:35:00
8. Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher) - 02:37:00
9. Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher) - 02:33:59
10. Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit - (Chorus) - 04:09:00
11. Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus) - 02:59:00
12. Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher) - 02:10:59
13. Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say - and 'twas - the Grape! (Philosopher, Chorus) - 01:39:59
14. Part II: The Grape that can with logic absolute (Chorus) - 02:42:00
15. Part II: The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus) - 03:38:00
16. Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher) - 01:29:00
17. Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher) - 01:41:59
18. Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus) - 03:17:00
19. Part II: The Revelations of devout and learn'd - 01:47:00
20. Part II: We are no other that a moving row (Chorus) - 03:18:59
21. Part II: The Moving finger writes; and, having writ (Beloved) - 01:41:00
22. Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet) - 01:36:00
23. Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet) - 02:10:00
24. Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher) - 03:29:59
25. Part II: What! Out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) - 04:41:00
26. Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) - 01:45:59
27. Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) - 02:35:00

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


1. Part III: Introduction - the Fast of Ramazan - 02:46:59
2. Part III: Worshippers in the Mosque - 04:09:59
3. Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher) - 01:00:00
4. Part III: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small - 02:06:59
5. Part III: Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot) - 06:36:00
6. Part III: So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus) - 01:54:59
7. Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher) - 02:26:00
8. Part III: Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher) - 01:48:00
9. Part III: And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher) - 02:14:00
10. Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet) - 02:35:00
11. Part III: Would but the desert of the fountain yield - 06:33:59
12. Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) - 01:32:59
13. Part III: And when like her, oh Saki, you shall pass (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) - 04:14:59

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