Bantock: Omar Khayyam

Album by Olivia Robinson.

Release date: 2007-09-01

Tracks (50)

  1. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Prelude
  2. Omar Khayyam, Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved)
  3. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus)
  4. Omar Khayyam, Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved)
  5. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus)
  6. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus)
  7. Omar Khayyam, Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet)
  8. Omar Khayyam, Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet)
  9. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet)
  10. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Interlude. The Desert
  11. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet)
  12. Omar Khayyam, Part I: The Caravan
  13. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon (Chorus)
  14. Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus)
  15. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved)
  16. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher)
  17. Omar Khayyam, Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet)
  18. Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher)
  19. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Some for the glories of this world (Chorus)
  20. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit (Chorus)
  21. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved)
  22. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus)
  23. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus)
  24. Omar Khayyam, Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher)
  25. Omar Khayyam, Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet)
  26. Omar Khayyam, Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say (Philosopher)
  27. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet)
  28. Omar Khayyam, Part II: and 'twas - the Grape! - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Philosopher, Chorus)
  29. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus)
  30. Omar Khayyam, Part II: The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus)
  31. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved)
  32. Omar Khayyam, Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher)
  33. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher)
  34. Omar Khayyam, Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher)
  35. Omar Khayyam, Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus)
  36. Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus)
  37. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet)
  38. Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Revelation of devout and learn'd (Chorus)
  39. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Earth could not answer. nor the seas that mourn (Chorus)
  40. Omar Khayyam, Part II: We are no other than a moving row (Chorus)
  41. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then of Thee in Me who works behind (Poet)
  42. Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Moving finger writes. and, having writ (Beloved)
  43. Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn (Poet)
  44. Omar Khayyam, Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet)
  45. Omar Khayyam, Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher)
  46. Omar Khayyam, Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet)
  47. Omar Khayyam, Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher)
  48. Omar Khayyam, Part II: What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)
  49. Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
  50. Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

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