Bantock: Omar Khayyam

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Prelude
• 2. I. Chorus: 'Wake! For the Sun, Who Scattered Into Flight'--
• 3. II. Chorus: 'Before the Phantom Of Flase Morning Died'--
• 4. III. The Poet: 'And As the Cock Crew, Those Who Stood Before'--
• 5. IV. The Poet: 'Now the New Year Reviving Old Desires'--
• 6. V. The Poet: 'Iram Indeed Is Gone With All His Rose'--
• 7. VIII. Chorus: 'Whether At Naishapur Or Babylon'--
• 8. IX. The Beloved: 'Each Morn a Thousand Roses Brings, You Say'--
• 9. XI. The Poet: 'With Me Along the Strip Of Herbage Strown'--
• 10. XIII. Chorus: 'Some For the Glories Of This World, and Some'--
• 11. XIV. The Beloved: 'Look To the Blowing Rose About Us--Lo'--
• 12. XVII. Chorus: 'Think, In This Battered Caravanserai'--
• 13. XIX. The Poet: 'I Sometimes Think That Never Blows So Red'--
• 14. XXI. The Poet: 'Ah, My Beloved, Fill the Cup That Clears'--
• 15. XXIV. Chorus: 'Ah, Make the Most Of What We Yet May Spend'--
• 16. XXV. The Beloved: 'Alike For Those Who For To-Day Prepare'--
• 17. XXVII. The Philosopher: 'Myself When Young Did Eagerly Frequent'--
• 18. XXX. Chorus: 'What, Without Asking, Hither Hurried Whence?'--
• 19. XXXI. The Poet: 'Up From Earth's Centre Through the Seventh Gate'--
• 20. XXXIII. Chorus: 'Earth Could Not Answer; Nor the Seas That Mourn'--
• 21. XXXIV. The Poet: 'Then Of the Thee In Me Who Works Behind'--
• 22. XXXV. The Poet: 'Then To the Lip Of This Poor Earthern Urn'--
• 23. XXXVI. The Philosopher: 'I Think the Vessel, That With Fugitive'--

Disc 2

• 1. XL. The Beloved: 'As Then the Tulip For Her Morning Sup'--
• 2. XLIII. The Beloved: 'So When That Angel Of the Darker Drink'--
• 3. XLV. Chorus: ''Tis But a Tent Where Takes His One Day's Rest'--
• 4. XLVII: The Beloved And the Poet: 'When You And I Behind the Veil Are Past'--
• 5. Interlude: The Desert
• 6. The Caravan
• 7. XLVIII. Chorus: 'A Moment's Halt -- A Momentary Taste'--
• 8. XLIX. The Philosopher: 'Would You That Spangle Of Existence Spend'--
• 9. LII. The Philosopher: 'A Moment Guessed -- Then Back Behind the Fold'--
• 10. LIV. Chorus: 'Waste Not Your Hour, Nor In the Vain Pursuit'--
• 11. Chorus: 'Better Be Jocund With the Fruitful Grape'--
• 12. LV. The Philosopher: 'You Know, My Friends, With What a Brave Carouse'--
• 13. LVII. The Philosopher: 'Ah, But My Computations, People Say'--
• 14. Medley: LVIII. The Philosopher And Chorus: 'And 'Twas -- The Grape!'--/LIX. Chorus: 'The Grape That
• 15. LX. Chorus: 'The Might Mahmud, Allah-Breathing Lord'--
• 16. LXI. The Philosopher: 'Why, Be This Juice the Growth Of God, Who Dare'--
• 17. LXII. The Philosopher: 'I Must Abjure the Balm Of Life, I Must'--
• 18. LXIII. Chorus: 'Oh Threats Of Hell And Hopes Of Paradise!'--
• 19. LXV. Chorus: 'The Revelations Of Devout And Learn'd'--
• 20. LXVIII. Chorus: 'We Are No Other Than a Moving Row'--
• 21. LXXI. The Beloved: 'The Moving Finger Writes; And, Having Writ'--
• 22. LXXII. The Beloved And the Poet: 'And That Inverted Bowl We Call the Sky'--
• 23. LXXIII. The Poet: 'With Earth's First Clay They Did the Last Man Knead'--
• 24. LXXV. The Philosopher: 'I Tell You This -- When, Started From the Goal'--
• 25. LXXVIII. The Beloved, the Poet And the Philosopher: 'What! Out Of Senseless Nothing To Provoke'--
• 26. LXXX. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet and Philosopher: 'Oh Thou, Who Didst With Pitfall And With Gin'-
• 27. LXXXI. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet And the Philosopher: 'Oh Thou, Who Man Of Baser Earth Didst Mak

Disc 3

• 1. Introduction 'The Fast Of Ramazan'--
• 2. Worshippers In the Mosque--
• 3. LXXXII. The Philosopher: 'As Under Cover Of Departing Day'--
• 4. LXXXIII. Chorus: 'Shapes Of All Sorts And Sizes, Great And Small'--
• 5. LXXXIV. First Pot: 'Said One Among Them -- ''Surely Not In Vain'''-
• 6. XC. Chorus: 'So While the Vessels One By One Were Speaking'--
• 7. XCI. The Philosopher: 'Ah, With the Grape My Fading Life Provide'--
• 8. XCIII. The Philosopher: 'Indeed the Idol I Have Loved So Long'--
• 9. XCV. The Philosopher: 'And Much As Wine Has Play'd the Infidel'--
• 10. XCVI. The Poet: 'Yet Ah, That Spring Should Vanish With the Rose!'--
• 11. XCVII. The Poet: 'Would But the Desert Of the Fountain Yield'--
• 12. C. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet And the Philosopher: 'Yon Rising Moon That Looks For Us Again'--
• 13. CI. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet And the Philosopher: 'And When Like Her, Oh Saki, You Shall Pass'