Vernon Handley - Bantock: Omar Khayyám (2007)

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Artist: Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Title: Bantock: Omar Khayyám
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 2:51:28
Total Size: 681 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Prelude (05:55)
2. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus) (02:08)
3. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus) (02:28)
4. Omar Khayyam: Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet) (02:19)
5. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet) (01:45)
6. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet) (02:25)
7. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Whether at Naishapur or Babylon (Chorus) (02:14)
8. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved) (01:34)
9. Omar Khayyam: Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet) (06:49)
10. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Some for the glories of this world; and some (Chorus) (02:06)
11. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved) (01:32)
12. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus) (02:09)
13. Omar Khayyam: Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet) (01:59)
14. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet) (01:55)
15. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus) (02:57)
16. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved) (02:46)
17. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher) (02:33)
18. Omar Khayyam: Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus) (01:21)
19. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet) (02:51)
20. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Earth could not answer; nor the seas that mourn (Chorus) (02:25)
21. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Then of the Thee in Me wo works behind (Poet) (00:51)
22. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthern urn (Poet) (02:34)
23. Omar Khayyam: Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher) (02:25)

Disc 2

1. Omar Khayyam: Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved) (03:39)
2. Omar Khayyam: Part I: So when that Angel of darker drink (Beloved) (02:18)
3. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus) (02:32)
4. Omar Khayyam: Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet) (04:01)
5. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Interlude: The Desert (01:35)
6. Omar Khayyam: Part I: The Caravan (02:58)
7. Omar Khayyam: Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus) (03:35)
8. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher) (02:37)
9. Omar Khayyam: Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher) (02:34)
10. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit - (Chorus) (04:08)
11. Omar Khayyam: Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus) (03:07)
12. Omar Khayyam: Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher) (02:11)
13. Omar Khayyam: Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say (Chorus) (01:40)
14. Omar Khayyam: Part II: and 'twas - the Grape! (Philosopher, Chorus) - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Chorus) (02:42)
15. Omar Khayyam: Part II: The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus) (03:38)
16. Omar Khayyam: Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher) (01:29)
17. Omar Khayyam: Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher) (01:42)
18. Omar Khayyam: Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus) (03:17)
19. Omar Khayyam: Part II: The Revelations of devout and learn'd (Chorus) (01:47)
20. Omar Khayyam: Part II: We are no other that a moving row (Chorus) (03:19)
21. Omar Khayyam: Part II: The Moving finger writes; and, having writ (Beloved) (01:41)
22. Omar Khayyam: Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet) (01:36)
23. Omar Khayyam: Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet) (02:10)
24. Omar Khayyam: Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher) (03:30)
25. Omar Khayyam: Part II: What! Out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) (04:41)
26. Omar Khayyam: Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) (01:46)
27. Omar Khayyam: Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) (02:38)

Disc 3

1. Omar Khayyam: Part III: Introduction: The Fast of Ramazan (02:47)
2. Omar Khayyam: Part III: Worshippers in the Mosque (04:10)
3. Omar Khayyam: Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher) (01:00)
4. Omar Khayyam: Part III: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small (Chorus) (02:06)
5. Omar Khayyam: Part III: Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot) (06:36)
6. Omar Khayyam: Part III: So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus) (01:55)
7. Omar Khayyam: Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher) (02:26)
8. Omar Khayyam: Part III: Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher) (01:48)
9. Omar Khayyam: Part III: And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher) (02:14)
10. Omar Khayyam: Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet) (02:35)
11. Omar Khayyam: Part III: Would but the desert of the fountain yield (Poet) (06:34)
12. Omar Khayyam: Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) (01:33)
13. Omar Khayyam: Part III: And when like her, oh Saki, you shall pass (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher) (04:17)

The recording of Bantock's choral masterpiece has long been at the top of Ralph Couzens's wish list and it has now finally come to fruition with the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley. This is a premiere recording and offers three CDs for the price of two. Bantock had a passion for all things Eastern and this interest in the exotic certainly finds an outlet in Omar Khayyám. The overriding philosophy of the rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám, a twelfth-century Persian astronomer, mathematician and poet, was the transience of existence and the insignificance of the individual, whether high-born or lowly. The poetical work of Omar Khayyám was translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald. Bantock uses a large orchestra with two full string complements, arranged to the left and right of the conductor, and in the atmospheric caravan scene he also makes a feature of authentic camel bells. This is our Disc of the Month.

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