Granville Bantock: Omar Khayyam on 3 Super Audio CDs
Omar Khayyam
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
3
Super Audio CDs
SACD (Super Audio CD)
The SACD uses a higher digital resolution than the audio CD and also offers the possibility to store multi-channel sound (surround sound). To enjoy the music in high-end quality, a special SACD player is required. Thanks to the hybrid function, most of the products marked "SACD" in our store can also be played on conventional CD players. In this case, however, the sound does not differ from that of a normal CD. In case of deviations, we point this out separately (non-hybrid).
Item will be re-manufactured.
Expected availability end of September 2025
Expected availability end of September 2025
Current price: EUR 39.99
- Sound Format:
- stereo & multichannel (Hybrid)
- Artists:
- Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
- Label:
- Chandos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2005/2007
- Item number:
- 6615371
- UPC/EAN:
- 0095115505120
- Release date:
- 28.9.2007
This was the premiere recording of what many consider to be Bantock's finest work
Reviews
FonoForum 04/08: "Vernon Handley und seine exquisiten Solisten bringen es mit und lassen es hier so richtig funkeln und überschäumen. Eine Aufnahme, die vermutlich auf lange Sicht Referenz bleiben wird."Disk 1 von 3 (SACD)
Omar Khayyám (für 3 Solostimmen, gemischten Chor und Orchester)
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1 Prelude (1. Teil)
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2 Wake! For the sun, who scatteres into flight
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3 Before the phantom of false morning died
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4 And as the cock crew, those who stood before
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5 Now the new year reviving old desires
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6 Iram indeed is gone with all his rose
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7 Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon
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8 Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say
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9 With me along the strip of herbage strown
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10 Some for the glories of this world; and some
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11 Look to the blowing Rose about us
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12 Think, in this battered caravanserei
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13 I sometimes think that never blows so red
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14 Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears
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15 Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend
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16 Alike for those who for To-day prepare
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17 Myself when young did eagerly frequent
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18 What, without asking, hither hurried Whence?
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19 Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate
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20 Earth could not aswer; nor the seas that mourn
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21 Then of the Thee In Me who works behind
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22 Then to the lip of this poor earthern urn
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23 I think the vessel, that with fugitive
Disk 2 von 3 (SACD)
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1 As then the tulip for her morning sup
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2 So when that angel of the darker drink
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3 Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest
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4 When you an I behind the veil are past
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5 The desert -
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6 The caravan -
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7 A moment's halt - a monumentary taste -
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8 Would you that spangle of existence spend
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9 A moment guessed - then back behind the fold
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10 Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit
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11 Better be jocund with the fruitful grape
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12 You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse (2. Teil)
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13 Ah, but my computations, people say
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14 And 'twas - the Grape!
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15 The Grape that can with logic absolute
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16 The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord
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17 Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare
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18 I must abjure the balm of life, I must
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19 The revelations of devout and learn'd
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20 We are no other than a moving row
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21 The moving finger writes; and, having writ
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22 And that invertes bowl we call the sky
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23 With earth's first clay they did the las man knead
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24 I tell you this - When, started from the goal
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25 What! out of senseless nothing to provoke
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26 Oh thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
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27 Oh thou, who man of base earth didst make
Disk 3 von 3 (SACD)
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1 The fast of Ramazán (3. Teil)
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2 Worshipper in the Mosque
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3 As under cover of departing day
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4 Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small
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5 Said one among them - Surely not in vain
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6 So while the vessels one by one were speaking
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7 Ah, with the grape my fasing life provide
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8 Indeed the idol I have loved so long
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9 And much as wine has play'd the infide!
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10 Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose
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11 Would but the desert of the fountain yield
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12 Yon rising moon that looks for us again
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13 And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass
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