Omar Khayyam by Bantock + Catherine Wyn-Rogers + Toby Spence + Roderick Williams + BBC Symphony Chorus + BBC Symphony Orchestra + Vernon Handley
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- 1Omar Khayyam, Part I: Prelude5:55
- 2Omar Khayyam, Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus)2:08
- 3Omar Khayyam, Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus)2:28
- 4Omar Khayyam, Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet)2:20
- 5Omar Khayyam, Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet)1:45
- 6Omar Khayyam, Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet)2:25
- 7Omar Khayyam, Part I: Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon (Chorus)2:14
- 8Omar Khayyam, Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved)1:34
- 9Omar Khayyam, Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet)6:49
- 10Omar Khayyam, Part I: Some for the glories of this world (Chorus)2:06
- 11Omar Khayyam, Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved)1:32
- 12Omar Khayyam, Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus)2:09
- 13Omar Khayyam, Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet)1:59
- 14Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet)1:55
- 15Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus)2:57
- 16Omar Khayyam, Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved)2:46
- 17Omar Khayyam, Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher)2:33
- 18Omar Khayyam, Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus)1:21
- 19Omar Khayyam, Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet)2:51
- 20Omar Khayyam, Part I: Earth could not answer. nor the seas that mourn (Chorus)2:25
- 21Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then of Thee in Me who works behind (Poet)0:52
- 22Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn (Poet)2:34
- 23Omar Khayyam, Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher)2:25
- 1Omar Khayyam, Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved)3:39
- 2Omar Khayyam, Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved)2:18
- 3Omar Khayyam, Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus)2:32
- 4Omar Khayyam, Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet)4:01
- 5Omar Khayyam, Part I: Interlude. The Desert1:35
- 6Omar Khayyam, Part I: The Caravan2:58
- 7Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus)3:35
- 8Omar Khayyam, Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher)2:37
- 9Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher)2:34
- 10Omar Khayyam, Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit (Chorus)4:09
- 11Omar Khayyam, Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus)3:08
- 12Omar Khayyam, Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher)2:11
- 13Omar Khayyam, Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say (Philosopher)1:40
- 14Omar Khayyam, Part II: and 'twas - the Grape! - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Philosopher, Chorus)2:42
- 15Omar Khayyam, Part II: The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus)3:38
- 16Omar Khayyam, Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher)1:29
- 17Omar Khayyam, Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher)1:42
- 18Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus)3:17
- 19Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Revelation of devout and learn'd (Chorus)1:47
- 20Omar Khayyam, Part II: We are no other than a moving row (Chorus)3:19
- 21Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Moving finger writes. and, having writ (Beloved)1:41
- 22Omar Khayyam, Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet)1:36
- 23Omar Khayyam, Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet)2:10
- 24Omar Khayyam, Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher)3:30
- 25Omar Khayyam, Part II: What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)4:41
- 26Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)1:46
- 27Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)2:39
- 1Omar Khayyam, Part III: Introduction The Fast of Ramazán2:47
- 2Omar Khayyam, Part III: Worshippers in the Mosque4:10
- 3Omar Khayyam, Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher)1:00
- 4Omar Khayyam, Part III: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small (Chorus)2:07
- 5Omar Khayyam, Part III: Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot)6:36
- 6Omar Khayyam, Part III: So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus)1:55
- 7Omar Khayyam, Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher)2:26
- 8Omar Khayyam, Part III: Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher)1:48
- 9Omar Khayyam, Part III: And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher)2:14
- 10Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet)2:35
- 11Omar Khayyam, Part III: Would but the desert of the fountain yield (Poet)6:34
- 12Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)1:33
- 13Omar Khayyam, Part III: And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)4:17
