New Arrivals/Restock

Title: Omar Khayyam
Artist: Vernon Handley
Label: Chandos
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 095115505120
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2007-10-23
Number of Discs: 3
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD



Tracks:
1.1 Prelude
1.2 I. Chorus: 'Wake! for the Sun, Who Scattered Into Flight'-
1.3 II. Chorus: 'Before the Phantom of Flase Morning Died'-
1.4 III. the Poet: 'And As the Cock Crew, Those Who Stood Before'-
1.5 IV. the Poet: 'Now the New Year Reviving Old Desires'-
1.6 V. the Poet: 'Iram Indeed Is Gone with All His Rose'-
1.7 VIII. Chorus: 'Whether at Naishapur or Babylon'-
1.8 IX. the Beloved: 'Each Morn a Thousand Roses Brings, You Say'-
1.9 XI. the Poet: 'With Me Along the Strip of Herbage Strown'-
1.10 XIII. Chorus: 'Some for the Glories of This World, and Some'-
1.11 XIV. the Beloved: 'Look to the Blowing Rose About Us-Lo'-
1.12 XVII. Chorus: 'Think, in This Battered Caravanserai'-
1.13 XIX. the Poet: 'I Sometimes Think That Never Blows So Red'-
1.14 XXI. the Poet: 'Ah, My Beloved, Fill the Cup That Clears'-
1.15 XXIV. Chorus: 'Ah, Make the Most of What We Yet May Spend'-
1.16 XXV. the Beloved: 'Alike for Those Who for To-Day Prepare'-
1.17 XXVII. the Philosopher: 'Myself When Young Did Eagerly Frequent'-
1.18 XXX. Chorus: 'What, Without Asking, Hither Hurried Whence?'-
1.19 XXXI. the Poet: 'Up from Earth's Centre Through the Seventh Gate'-
1.20 XXXIII. Chorus: 'Earth Could Not Answer; Nor the Seas That Mourn'-
1.21 XXXIV. the Poet: 'Then of the Thee in Me Who Works Behind'-
1.22 XXXV. the Poet: 'Then to the Lip of This Poor Earthern Urn'-
1.23 XXXVI. the Philosopher: 'I Think the Vessel, That with Fugitive'-
2.1 XL. the Beloved: 'As Then the Tulip for Her Morning Sup'-
2.2 XLIII. the Beloved: 'So When That Angel of the Darker Drink'-
2.3 XLV. Chorus: 'Tis But a Tent Where Takes His One Day's Rest'-
2.4 XLVII: The Beloved and the Poet: 'When You and I Behind the Veil Are Past'-
2.5 Interlude: The Desert
2.6 The Caravan
2.7 XLVIII. Chorus: 'A Moment's Halt - a Momentary Taste'-
2.8 XLIX. the Philosopher: 'Would You That Spangle of Existence Spend'-
2.9 LII. the Philosopher: 'A Moment Guessed - Then Back Behind the Fold'-
2.10 LIV. Chorus: 'Waste Not Your Hour, Nor in the Vain Pursuit'-
2.11 Chorus: 'Better Be Jocund with the Fruitful Grape'-
2.12 LV. the Philosopher: 'You Know, My Friends, with What a Brave Carouse'-
2.13 LVII. the Philosopher: 'Ah, But My Computations, People Say'-
2.14 Medley: LVIII. the Philosopher and Chorus: 'And 'Twas - the Grape!'-/Lix. Chorus: 'The Grape That Can with Logic Absolute'-
2.15 LX. Chorus: 'The Might Mahmud, Allah-Breathing Lord'-
2.16 LXI. the Philosopher: 'Why, Be This Juice the Growth of God, Who Dare'-
2.17 LXII. the Philosopher: 'I Must Abjure the Balm of Life, I Must'-
2.18 LXIII. Chorus: 'Oh Threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!'-
2.19 LXV. Chorus: 'The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd'-
2.20 LXVIII. Chorus: 'We Are No Other Than a Moving Row'-
2.21 LXXI. the Beloved: 'The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ'-
2.22 LXXII. the Beloved and the Poet: 'And That Inverted Bowl We Call the Sky'-
2.23 LXXIII. the Poet: 'With Earth's First Clay They Did the Last Man Knead'-
2.24 LXXV. the Philosopher: 'I Tell You This - When, Started from the Goal'-
2.25 LXXVIII. the Beloved, the Poet and the Philosopher: 'What! Out of Senseless Nothing to Provoke'-
2.26 LXXX. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet and Philosopher: 'Oh Thou, Who Didst with Pitfall and with Gin'-
2.27 LXXXI. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet and the Philosopher: 'Oh Thou, Who Man of Baser Earth Didst Make'-
3.1 Introduction 'The Fast of Ramazan'-
3.2 Worshippers in the Mosque-
3.3 LXXXII. the Philosopher: 'As Under Cover of Departing Day'-
3.4 LXXXIII. Chorus: 'Shapes of All Sorts and Sizes, Great and Small'-
3.5 LXXXIV. First Pot: 'Said One Among Them - 'Surely Not in Vain'-
3.6 XC. Chorus: 'So While the Vessels One By One Were Speaking'-
3.7 XCI. the Philosopher: 'Ah, with the Grape My Fading Life Provide'-
3.8 XCIII. the Philosopher: 'Indeed the Idol I Have Loved So Long'-
3.9 XCV. the Philosopher: 'And Much As Wine Has Play'd the Infidel'-
3.10 XCVI. the Poet: 'Yet Ah, That Spring Should Vanish with the Rose!'-
3.11 XCVII. the Poet: 'Would But the Desert of the Fountain Yield'-
3.12 C. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet and the Philosopher: 'Yon Rising Moon That Looks for Us Again'-
3.13 CI. Chorus, the Beloved, the Poet and the Philosopher: 'And When Like Her, Oh Saki, You Shall Pass'