Omar Khayyám (1906-1909)
Norman del Mar, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Sarah Walker (Mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor), Brian Rayner Cook (Baritone)
August 1968
Part I
- 06:191. Prelude
- 06:132. 'Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight' (Chorus, Beloved, Philosopher)
- 07:343. 'Now the new year reviving old desires' (Poet, Chorus)
- 08:274. 'Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say' (Beloved, Chorus, Poet)
- 09:145. 'Some for the glories of this world; and some' (Chorus, Beloved, Poet)
- 07:166. 'I sometimes think that never blows so red' (Poet, Beloved, Chorus)
- 10:167. 'Alike for those who for To-day prepare' (Beloved, Philosopher, Chorus, Poet)
- 07:378. 'Then of the Thee in Me wo works behind' (Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
- 10:089. 'As then the tulip for her morning sup' (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
- 09:5710. Interlude 'The Desert'
- 10:4911. 'Would you that spangle of Existence spend' (Philosopher, Chorus, Beloved, Poet)
- 02:46Interlude
Part II
- 07:3212. 'You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse' (Philosopher, Chorus)
- 06:5713. 'Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare' (Philosopher, Chorus)
- 09:2214. 'I sent my soul through the invisible' (Poet, Chorus)
- 06:5515. 'The Moving finger writes; and, having writ' (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)
- 07:2216. 'What! Out of senseless Nothing to provoke' (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)
Part III
- 06:3417. Introduction 'The Fast of Ramazàn'
- 10:1718. 'As under cover of departing day' (Philosopher, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Pot, Chorus)
- 06:0219. 'Ah, with the grape my fading life provide' (Philosopher)
- 08:1220. 'Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose!' (Poet, Beloved)
- 06:4221. 'Yon rising moon that looks for us again' (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)
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