Bantock: Omar Khayyam / Del Mar, BBC Symphony

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Lyrita
Release Date
July 8, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BANTOCK, GRANVILLE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Walker, Peters, Johnson, Cook, Bbc Singers
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 08, 2016
    • UPC
      5020926212825
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      REAM2128
    • LABEL
      Lyrita
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: Prelude

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    2. Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus, Beloved, Philosopher)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    3. Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet, Chorus)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    4. Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved, Chorus, Poet)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    5. Part I: Some for the glories of this world; and some (Chorus, Beloved, Poet)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    6. Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet, Beloved, Chorus)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    7. Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved, Philosopher, Chorus, Poet)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    8. Part I: Then of the Thee in Me wo works behind (Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    9. Part I: As then the tulip for her moning sup (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    10. Part I: Interlude: The Desert

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    11. Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher, Chorus, Beloved, Poet)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    12. Interlude

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    13. Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher, Chorus)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    14. Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher, Chorus)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    15. Part II: I sent my soul through the invisible (Poet, Chorus)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    16. Part II: The Moving finger writes; and, having writ (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    17. Part II: What! Out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    18. Part III: Introduction: the Fast of Ramazan

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    19. Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Pot, Chorus)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    20. Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    21. Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet, Beloved)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    22. Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Chorus, Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Brian Rayner Cook

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    23. Fifine at the Fair

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    24. Prelude

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Peters

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    25. No. 1. Hymn to Aphrodite

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Peters

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    26. No. 2. I loved thee, Atthis, long ago

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Peters

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    27. No. 3. Evening Song: Evening, thou bringest all

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Peters

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    28. No. 5. The moon has set

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Peters

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    29. No. 6. Peer of Gods he seems

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Peters

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    30. No. 9. Muse of the golden throne

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Johanna Peters

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    31. The Pierrot of the Minute Overture

      Composer: Granville Bantock

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar


The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a translation by Edward Fitzgerald of a selection of poems which were originally written in Persian and are attributed to Omar Khayyam, a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. There are about a thousand poems in the complete volume. British composer Granville Bantock composed this choral setting of the works. Part 1 premiered in 1906, Part 2 in 1907, Part 3 in 1909, and the complete works were performed in 1910 at Queen’s Hall. This four disc set is the only complete recording ever made of the work, and is made up of original BBC Broadcasts from 1968 and 1979.

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REVIEWS:

Those who want to hear Omar Khayyam in all its glorious monumentality will need to buy the Lyrita set. it’s one of the monuments in British music that needs to be heard.

– The Guardian

Del Mar’s soloists sing with urgency and passion. A hugely enterprising addition to Lyrita’s ever-growing catalogue.

– Gramophone

This lively 1979 revival of the complete work is well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair. Del Mar, an eminent Strauss scholar, has a sure feel for the orchestral writing of this era, well paced and translucent rather than weighty.

– BBC Music Magazine