Granville Bantock: Omar Khayyám – BBC Singers

1

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: Prelude

BBC Symphony Orchestra

6:20

2

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: Wake! For the Sun, Who Scattered Into Flight

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Brian Rayner Cook

6:14

3

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: Now the New Year Reviving Old Desires

Anthony Rolfe Johnson

7:34

4

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: Each Morn a Thousand Roses Brings, You Say

Sarah Walker & Anthony Rolfe Johnson

8:28

5

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: Some for the Glories of This World

Sarah Walker & Anthony Rolfe Johnson

9:15

6

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: I Sometimes Think That Never Blows so Red

Sarah Walker & Anthony Rolfe Johnson

7:16

7

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: Alike for Those Who for To-day Prepare

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Brian Rayner Cook

10:17

8

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: Then of the Thee in Me Who Works Behind

Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Brian Rayner Cook

7:37

9

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: As Then the Tulip for Her Morning Sup

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Brian Rayner Cook

10:08

10

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: Interlude. The Desert

BBC Singers

9:57

11

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 1: Would You That Spangle of Existence Spend

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Brian Rayner Cook

10:49

12

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 2: Interlude

BBC Symphony Orchestra

2:46

13

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 2: You Know, My Friends, with What a Brave Carouse

Brian Rayner Cook

7:33

14

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 2: Why, Be This Juice the Growth of God, Who Dare

Brian Rayner Cook

6:58

15

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 2: I Sent My Soul Through the Invisible

Anthony Rolfe Johnson

9:22

16

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 2: The Moving Finger Writes

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Brian Rayner Cook

6:56

17

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 2: What! Out of Senseless Nothing to Provoke

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Brian Rayner Cook

7:22

18

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 3: Introduction. The Fast of Ramazán

BBC Singers

6:35

19

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 3: As Under Cover of Departing Day

Brian Rayner Cook & Unknown Artist

10:18

20

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 3: Ah, with the Grape My Fading Life Provide

Brian Rayner Cook

6:03

21

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 3: Yet Ah, That Spring Should Vanish with the Rose!

Sarah Walker & Anthony Rolfe Johnson

8:13

22

Omar Khayyám, Pt. 3: Yon Rising Moon That Looks for Us Again

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Brian Rayner Cook

6:43

23

Fifine at the Fair

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

30:15

24

Sappho: Prelude

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

10:15

25

Sappho: I. Hymn to Aphrodite, Daughter of Zeus

Johanna Peters

8:04

26

Sappho: II. I Loved Thee, Atthis, Long Ago

Johanna Peters

6:52

27

Sappho: III. Evening Song

Johanna Peters

2:05

28

Sappho: V. The Moon Has Set

Johanna Peters

6:06

29

Sappho: VI. Peer of Gods He Seems

Johanna Peters

4:04

30

Sappho: IX. Muse of the Golden Throne

Johanna Peters

5:33

31

The Pierrot of the Minute Overture

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

11:27