Bantock: Omar Khayyam

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams, Olivia Robinson, Sian Menna & Edward Price

63 SONGS • 2 STUNDEN UND 51 MINUTEN • SEP 01 2007

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

01:45

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

02:25

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

02:15

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Catherine Wyn-Rogers

01:35

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

06:49

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Some for the glories of this world (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

02:06

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Catherine Wyn-Rogers

01:33

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

02:10

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

01:59

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

01:56

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

02:58

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Catherine Wyn-Rogers

02:47

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

02:33

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

01:22

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

02:51

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Earth could not answer. nor the seas that mourn (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

02:25

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then of Thee in Me who works behind (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

00:52

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

02:34

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

02:26

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Catherine Wyn-Rogers

03:40

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Catherine Wyn-Rogers

02:18

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

02:33

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers & Toby Spence

04:02

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Interlude. The Desert

Vernon Handley & BBC Symphony Orchestra

01:36

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: The Caravan

Vernon Handley & BBC Symphony Orchestra

02:58

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

03:36

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

02:37

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

02:35

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

04:09

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Omar Khayyam, Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

03:08

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

02:12

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

01:40

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: and 'twas - the Grape! - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Philosopher, Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Roderick Williams & BBC Symphony Chorus

02:42

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

03:39

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

01:30

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

01:43

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

03:17

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Revelation of devout and learn'd (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

01:47

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: We are no other than a moving row (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

03:20

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Moving finger writes. and, having writ (Beloved)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Catherine Wyn-Rogers

01:42

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers & Toby Spence

01:36

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

02:11

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

03:30

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence & Roderick Williams

04:41

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams & BBC Symphony Chorus

01:47

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Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams & BBC Symphony Chorus

02:39

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Introduction The Fast of Ramazán

Vernon Handley & BBC Symphony Orchestra

02:48

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Worshippers in the Mosque

Vernon Handley & BBC Symphony Orchestra

04:11

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

01:00

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

02:07

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Olivia Robinson

06:37

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

01:55

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

02:27

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

01:48

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Roderick Williams

02:14

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

02:36

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Would but the desert of the fountain yield (Poet)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Toby Spence

06:35

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams & BBC Symphony Chorus

01:33

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Omar Khayyam, Part III: And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams & BBC Symphony Chorus

04:18

℗© 2007: Chandos Records