Bantock: Omar Khayyam

1. 1
   Omar Khayyam, Part I: Prelude
   5:55
2. 2
   Omar Khayyam, Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus)
   2:08
3. 3
   Omar Khayyam, Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus)
   2:28
4. 4
   Omar Khayyam, Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet)
   2:20
5. 5
   Omar Khayyam, Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet)
   1:45
6. 6
   Omar Khayyam, Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet)
   2:25
7. 7
   Omar Khayyam, Part I: Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon (Chorus)
   2:14
8. 8
   Omar Khayyam, Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved)
   1:34
9. 9
   Omar Khayyam, Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet)
   6:49
10. 10
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Some for the glories of this world (Chorus)
    2:06
11. 11
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved)
    1:32
12. 12
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus)
    2:09
13. 13
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet)
    1:59
14. 14
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet)
    1:55
15. 15
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus)
    2:57
16. 16
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved)
    2:46
17. 17
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher)
    2:33
18. 18
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus)
    1:21
19. 19
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet)
    2:51
20. 20
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Earth could not answer. nor the seas that mourn (Chorus)
    2:25
21. 21
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then of Thee in Me who works behind (Poet)
    0:52
22. 22
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn (Poet)
    2:34
23. 23
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher)
    2:25
24. 24
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved)
    3:39
25. 25
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved)
    2:18
26. 26
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus)
    2:32
27. 27
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet)
    4:01
28. 28
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Interlude. The Desert
    1:35
29. 29
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: The Caravan
    2:58
30. 30
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus)
    3:35
31. 31
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher)
    2:37
32. 32
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher)
    2:34
33. 33
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit (Chorus)
    4:09
34. 34
    Omar Khayyam, Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus)
    3:08
35. 35
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher)
    2:11
36. 36
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say (Philosopher)
    1:40
37. 37
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: and 'twas - the Grape! - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Philosopher, Chorus)
    2:42
38. 38
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus)
    3:38
39. 39
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher)
    1:29
40. 40
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher)
    1:42
41. 41
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus)
    3:17
42. 42
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Revelation of devout and learn'd (Chorus)
    1:47
43. 43
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: We are no other than a moving row (Chorus)
    3:19
44. 44
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Moving finger writes. and, having writ (Beloved)
    1:41
45. 45
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet)
    1:36
46. 46
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet)
    2:10
47. 47
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher)
    3:30
48. 48
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)
    4:41
49. 49
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
    1:46
50. 50
    Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
    2:39
51. 51
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Introduction The Fast of Ramazán
    2:47
52. 52
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Worshippers in the Mosque
    4:10
53. 53
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher)
    1:00
54. 54
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small (Chorus)
    2:07
55. 55
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot)
    6:36
56. 56
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus)
    1:55
57. 57
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher)
    2:26
58. 58
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher)
    1:48
59. 59
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher)
    2:14
60. 60
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet)
    2:35
61. 61
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Would but the desert of the fountain yield (Poet)
    6:34
62. 62
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
    1:33
63. 63
    Omar Khayyam, Part III: And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
    4:17

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