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

Vernon Handley, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus

Bantock: Omar Khayyam

3 MINUTEN UND 8 SEKUNDEN • SEP 01 2007

Album-Songliste

Omar Khayyam, Part I: Prelude

05:55

Omar Khayyam, Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus)

02:09

Omar Khayyam, Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus)

02:29

Omar Khayyam, Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet)

02:20

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

01:45

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

02:25

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

02:15

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

01:35

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

06:49

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

02:06

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

01:33

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

02:10

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

01:59

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

01:56

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

02:58

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

02:47

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

02:33

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

01:22

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

02:51

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

02:25

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

00:52

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

02:34

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

02:26

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

03:40

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

02:18

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

02:33

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

04:02

Omar Khayyam, Part I: Interlude. The Desert

01:36

Omar Khayyam, Part I: The Caravan

02:58

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

03:36

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

02:37

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

02:35

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

04:09

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

03:08

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

02:12

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

01:40

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

02:42

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

03:39

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

01:30

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

01:43

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

03:17

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

01:47

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

03:20

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

01:42

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

01:36

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

02:11

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

03:30

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

04:41

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

01:47

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

02:39

Omar Khayyam, Part III: Introduction The Fast of Ramazán

02:48

Omar Khayyam, Part III: Worshippers in the Mosque

04:11

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

01:00

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

02:07

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

06:37

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

01:55

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

02:27

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

01:48

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

02:14

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

02:36

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

06:35

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

01:33

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

04:18

Bantock: Omar Khayyam

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