Bantock: The Complete Omar Khayyam – Norman Del Mar

Omar Khayyám (Gesamtaufnahme)
Prelude (1. Teil)
Chor: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight – Chor und Soli: Before the phantom of false morning died – …
Solo: Now the new year reviving old desires – Iram indeed is gone with all his rose – And David’s lips are lockt – …
Solo: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say – Chor: What have we to do with Kaikobad the Great – Solo: With me…
Chor: Some for the glories of this world; and some – Solo: Look to the blowing rose about us – Lo – Solo: And those…
Solo: I sometimes think that never blows so red – Solo: And this reviving herb whose tender green – Solo: Ah, my…
Solo: Alike for those who for to-day prepare – Solo: Why, all the saints and sages who discuss’d – Myself when young…
Solo: Then of the THEE IN ME who works behind – The to the lip of this poor earthern urn – Solo: I think the vessel, …
Solo: As the the tulip for her morning sup – Perplext no more with human or divine – Solo: And if the wine you drink…
Interlude: The desert – The caravan – Chor: A moment’s halt – A momentary taste (2. Teil)
Solo: Would you that spangle of existence spend – A hair perhaps divides the false and true – Whose secret presence, …
Interlude
Solo: You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse – For “is” and “is-not” though with rule and line – Ah, but my…
Solo: Why, be this juice the growth of God, who dare – I must abjure the balm of life, I must – Chor: Oh threats of…
Solo: I sent my sould through the invisible – Chor: Heav’n but the vision of fulfill’d desire – We are no other than…
Solo: The moving finger writes; and, having writ – Duett: And that inverted bowl we call the sky – Solo: With Earth’s…
Terzett: What! Out of senseless nothing to provoke – What! From his helpless creature be repaid – Quartett: Oh Thou, …
Introduction: The Fast of Ramazán – Worshippers in the mosque (3. Teil)
Solo: As under cover of departing day – Chor: Shape of all sorts and sizes, great and small – Solo: The said a second…
Solo: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide – That ev’n my buried ashes such a snare – Indeed the idol I have…
Duett: Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose! – Solo: Would but the desert of the fountain yield – Solo: …
Chor und Terzett: Yon rising moon that looks for us again – And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass
Fifine at the Fair (A Defence of Inconstancy)
Sappho (Vorspiel und 9 Fragmente für Sopran und Orchester) (Auszug)
Vorspiel
Nr. 1 Hymn to Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus
Nr. 2 I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago
Nr. 3 Evening song
Nr. 5 The moon has set
Nr. 6 Peer of Gods he seems
Nr. 9 Muse of the Golden Throne
The Pierrot of the Minute (Ouvertüre)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Norman Del Mar

Reference: 0002128REAM
Barcode: 5020926212825
Length: 4:16:54
Label: Lyrita