Bantock: Omar Khayy¿¿m

Bantock: Omar Khayy¿¿m

by Vernon Handley
Bantock: Omar Khayy¿¿m

Bantock: Omar Khayy¿¿m

by Vernon Handley

SACD(Super Audio CD - SACD Hybrid)

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Product Details

Release Date: 10/23/2007
Label: Chandos
UPC: 0095115505120
Rank: 25822

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. [Prelude -]
  2. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 1. Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight -
  3. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 2. Before the phantom of false morning died -
  4. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 3. And as the cock crew, those who stood before -
  5. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 4. Now the new year reviving old desires -
  6. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 5. Iram indeed is gone with all his rose -
  7. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 8. Whether at Naish¿¿p¿¿r or Babylon -
  8. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 9. Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say -
  9. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 11. With me along the strip of herbage strown -
  10. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 13. Some for the glories of this world; and some -
  11. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 14. Look the the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" -
  12. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 17. Think, in this battered caravanserai -
  13. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 19. I sometimes think that never blows so red -
  14. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 21. Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears -
  15. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 24. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend -
  16. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 25. Alike for those who for To-day prepare -
  17. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 27. Myself when young did eagerly frequent -
  18. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 30. What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? -
  19. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 31. Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate -
  20. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 33. Earth could not answer; nor the seas that mourn -
  21. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 34. Then of Thee in Me who works behind -
  22. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 35. Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn -
  23. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 36. I think the vessel, that with fugitive

Disc 2

  1. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 40. As when the tulip for her morning sup -
  2. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 43. So when that Angel of the darker drink -
  3. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 45. 'Tis but a test where his one day's rest -
  4. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 47. When you and I behind the veil are past -
  5. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. [Interlude:] The Desert -
  6. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. The Cararan -
  7. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 48. A moment's halt - a momentary taste -
  8. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 49. Would you that spangle of Existence spend -
  9. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 52. A moment guessed - then back behind the fold -
  10. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. No. 54. Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit -
  11. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 1. Better be jocund with the fruitful grape
  12. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 55. You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse -
  13. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 57. Ah, but my computations, people say -
  14. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 58. and 'twas - the Grape! - / No. 59. The Grape that can with logic absolute -
  15. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 60. The mighty Mahm¿¿d, Allah-breathing Lord -
  16. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 61. Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare -
  17. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 62. I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must -
  18. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 63. Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! -
  19. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 65. The Revelations of devout and learn'd -
  20. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 68. We are no other than a moving row -
  21. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 71. The moving finger writes; and having writ -
  22. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 72. And that inverted bowl we call the sky -
  23. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 73. With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead -
  24. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 75. I tell you this - when, started from the goal -
  25. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 78. What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke -
  26. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 80. Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin -
  27. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 2. No. 81. Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make

Disc 3

  1. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. Introduction / The Fast of Ramaz¿¿n -
  2. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. Worshippers in the Mosque -
  3. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 82. As under cover of departing day -
  4. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 83. Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small -
  5. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 84. Said one among them - "Surely not in vain" -
  6. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 90. So while the vessels one by one were speaking -
  7. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 91. Ah, with the grape my fading life provide -
  8. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 93. Indeed the idol I have loved so long -
  9. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 95. And much as wine has play'd the infidel -
  10. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 96. Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! -
  11. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 97. Would but the desert of the fountain yield -
  12. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 100. You rising moon that looks for us again -
  13. Omar Khayyam, for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Part 3. No. 101. And when like her, oh S¿¿ki, you shall pass

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Vernon Handley   Primary Artist,Conductor
BBC Symphony Chorus   Choir/Chorus
Edward Price   Bass (Vocal)
Olivia Robinson   Soprano (Vocal)
Stephen Bryant   Orchestra Leader
Catherine Wyn-Rogers   Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
BBC Symphony Orchestra   Orchestra
Toby Spence   Tenor (Vocal)
Sian Menna   Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
Roderick Williams   Baritone (Vocal)

Technical Credits

Maura McGroarty   Photography
Jonathan Cooper   Editing,Assistant Engineer
Mitch Jenkins   Photography
Francis Marchal   Liner Note Translation
Richard H. Smith   Photography
Edward FitzGerald   Text
Kirill Zdorov   Cover Photo
Keith Saunders   Photography
Michael Common   Assistant Engineer
Finn S. Gundersen   Booklet Editor
Andreas Klatt   Liner Note Translation
Ralph Couzens   Engineer
Lewis Foreman   Liner Notes
Mary McCarthy   A&R
Brian Couzens   Producer
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