Title:	Omar Khayyam
Genre:	Classical
Composers:	Granville Bantock
Conductors:	Vernon Handley
Orchestras:	BBC Symphony Orchestra
Performers:	BBC Symphony Chorus, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Edward Price, Olivia Robinson, Roderick Williams, Si n Menna, Siân Menna, Toby Spence
Label:	Chandos
Number of Discs:	3
Attributes:	Hybrid SACD
Release Date:	10/23/2007

Product Type:	SACD
UPC:	095115505120
Item #:	NAX550512

Tracks

- Disc 1 -
1 Prelude
2 I. Chorus: 'Wake! for the Sun, Who Scattered Into Flight'-
3 II. Chorus: 'Before the Phantom of Flase Morning Died'-
4 III. the Poet: 'And As the Cock Crew, Those Who Stood Before'-
5 IV. the Poet: 'Now the New Year Reviving Old Desires'-
6 V. the Poet: 'Iram Indeed Is Gone with All His Rose'-
7 VIII. Chorus: 'Whether at Naishapur or Babylon'-
8 IX. the Beloved: 'Each Morn a Thousand Roses Brings, You Say'-
9 XI. the Poet: 'With Me Along the Strip of Herbage Strown'-
10 XIII. Chorus: 'Some for the Glories of This World, and Some'-
11 XIV. the Beloved: 'Look to the Blowing Rose About Us-Lo'-
12 XVII. Chorus: 'Think, in This Battered Caravanserai'-
13 XIX. the Poet: 'I Sometimes Think That Never Blows So Red'-
14 XXI. the Poet: 'Ah, My Beloved, Fill the Cup That Clears'-
15 XXIV. Chorus: 'Ah, Make the Most of What We Yet May Spend'-
16 XXV. the Beloved: 'Alike for Those Who for To-Day Prepare'-
17 XXVII. the Philosopher: 'Myself When Young Did Eagerly Frequent'-
18 XXX. Chorus: 'What, Without Asking, Hither Hurried Whence?'-
19 XXXI. the Poet: 'Up from Earth's Centre Through the Seventh Gate'-
20 XXXIII. Chorus: 'Earth Could Not Answer; Nor the Seas That Mourn'-
21 XXXIV. the Poet: 'Then of the Thee in Me Who Works Behind'-
22 XXXV. the Poet: 'Then to the Lip of This Poor Earthern Urn'-
23 XXXVI. the Philosopher: 'I Think the Vessel, That with Fugitive'-
- Disc 2 -
1 XL. the Beloved: 'As Then the Tulip for Her Morning Sup'-
2 XLIII. the Beloved: 'So When That Angel of the Darker Drink'-
3 XLV. Chorus: 'Tis But a Tent Where Takes His One Day's Rest'-
4 XLVII: The Beloved and the Poet: 'When You and I Behind the Veil Are Past'-
5 Interlude: The Desert
6 The Caravan
7 XLVIII. Chorus: 'A Moment's Halt - a Momentary Taste'-
8 XLIX. the Philosopher: 'Would You That Spangle of Existence Spend'-
9 LII. the Philosopher: 'A Moment Guessed - Then Back Behind the Fold'-
10 LIV. Chorus: 'Waste Not Your Hour, Nor in the Vain Pursuit'-
11 Chorus: 'Better Be Jocund with the Fruitful Grape'-
12 LV. the Philosopher: 'You Know, My Friends, with What a Brave Carouse'-
13 LVII. the Philosopher: 'Ah, But My Computations, People Say'-
14 Medley: LVIII. the Philosopher and Chorus: 'And 'Twas - the Grape!'-/Lix. Chorus: 'The Grape That Can with Logic Absolute'-
15 LX. Chorus: 'The Might Mahmud, Allah-Breathing Lord'-
16 LXI. the Philosopher: 'Why, Be This Juice the Growth of God, Who Dare'-
17 LXII. the Philosopher: 'I Must Abjure the Balm of Life, I Must'-
18 LXIII. Chorus: 'Oh Threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!'-
19 LXV. Chorus: 'The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd'-
20 LXVIII. Chorus: 'We Are No Other Than a Moving Row'-
21 LXXI. the Beloved: 'The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ'-
22 LXXII. the Beloved and the Poet: 'And That Inverted Bowl We Call the Sky'-
23 LXXIII. the Poet: 'With Earth's First Clay They Did the Last Man Knead'-
24 LXXV. the Philosopher: 'I Tell You This - When, Started from the Goal'-
25 LXXVIII. the Beloved, the Poet and the Philosopher: 'What! Out of Senseless Nothing to Provoke'-
26 LXXX. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet and Philosopher: 'Oh Thou, Who Didst with Pitfall and with Gin'-
27 LXXXI. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet and the Philosopher: 'Oh Thou, Who Man of Baser Earth Didst Make'-
- Disc 3 -
1 Introduction 'The Fast of Ramazan'-
2 Worshippers in the Mosque-
3 LXXXII. the Philosopher: 'As Under Cover of Departing Day'-
4 LXXXIII. Chorus: 'Shapes of All Sorts and Sizes, Great and Small'-
5 LXXXIV. First Pot: 'Said One Among Them - 'Surely Not in Vain'-
6 XC. Chorus: 'So While the Vessels One By One Were Speaking'-
7 XCI. the Philosopher: 'Ah, with the Grape My Fading Life Provide'-
8 XCIII. the Philosopher: 'Indeed the Idol I Have Loved So Long'-
9 XCV. the Philosopher: 'And Much As Wine Has Play'd the Infidel'-
10 XCVI. the Poet: 'Yet Ah, That Spring Should Vanish with the Rose!'-
11 XCVII. the Poet: 'Would But the Desert of the Fountain Yield'-
12 C. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet and the Philosopher: 'Yon Rising Moon That Looks for Us Again'-
13 CI. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet and the Philosopher: 'And When Like Her, Oh Saki, You Shall Pass'

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