Toby Spence

Omar Khayyam

Featuring
Release date September, 2007

Tracklist

1
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Prelude
5:55
5:55
2
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight (Chorus)
2:08
2:08
3
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Before the phantom of false morning died (Chorus)
2:28
2:28
4
Omar Khayyam, Part I: And as the cock crew, those who stood before (Poet)
2:20
2:20
5
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Now the new year reviving old desires (Poet)
1:45
1:45
6
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Iram indeed is gone with all his rose (Poet)
2:25
2:25
7
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon (Chorus)
2:14
2:14
8
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say (Beloved)
1:34
1:34
9
Omar Khayyam, Part I: With me along the strip of herbage strown (Poet)
6:49
6:49
10
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Some for the glories of this world (Chorus)
2:06
2:06
11
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo" (Beloved)
1:32
1:32
12
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Think, in this battered caravanserai (Chorus)
2:09
2:09
13
Omar Khayyam, Part I: I sometimes think that never blows so red (Poet)
1:59
1:59
14
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, my Beloved, fill the cup that clears (Poet)
1:55
1:55
15
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Chorus)
2:57
2:57
16
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Alike for those who for To-day prepare (Beloved)
2:46
2:46
17
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Philosopher)
2:33
2:33
18
Omar Khayyam, Part I: What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? (Chorus)
1:21
1:21
19
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate (Poet)
2:51
2:51
20
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Earth could not answer. nor the seas that mourn (Chorus)
2:25
2:25
21
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then of Thee in Me who works behind (Poet)
0:52
0:52
22
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn (Poet)
2:34
2:34
23
Omar Khayyam, Part I: I think the vessel, that with fugitive (Philosopher)
2:25
2:25
24
Omar Khayyam, Part I: As then the tulip for her morning sup (Beloved)
3:39
3:39
25
Omar Khayyam, Part I: So when that Angel of the darker drink (Beloved)
2:18
2:18
26
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest (Chorus)
2:32
2:32
27
Omar Khayyam, Part I: When you and I behind the veil are past (Beloved, Poet)
4:01
4:01
28
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Interlude. The Desert
1:35
1:35
29
Omar Khayyam, Part I: The Caravan
2:58
2:58
30
Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment's halt - a momentary taste (Chorus)
3:35
3:35
31
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Would you that spangle of Existence spend (Philosopher)
2:37
2:37
32
Omar Khayyam, Part I: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold (Philosopher)
2:34
2:34
33
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit (Chorus)
4:09
4:09
34
Omar Khayyam, Part I: Better be jocund with the fruitful grape (Chorus)
3:08
3:08
35
Omar Khayyam, Part II: You know, my Friends, with what a brave carouse (Philosopher)
2:11
2:11
36
Omar Khayyam, Part II: Ah, but my computations, people say (Philosopher)
1:40
1:40
37
Omar Khayyam, Part II: and 'twas - the Grape! - The Grape that can with logic absolute (Philosopher, Chorus)
2:42
2:42
38
Omar Khayyam, Part II: The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord (Chorus)
3:38
3:38
39
Omar Khayyam, Part II: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare (Philosopher)
1:29
1:29
40
Omar Khayyam, Part II: I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must (Philosopher)
1:42
1:42
41
Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! (Chorus)
3:17
3:17
42
Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Revelation of devout and learn'd (Chorus)
1:47
1:47
43
Omar Khayyam, Part II: We are no other than a moving row (Chorus)
3:19
3:19
44
Omar Khayyam, Part II: The Moving finger writes. and, having writ (Beloved)
1:41
1:41
45
Omar Khayyam, Part II: And that inverted bowl we call the sky (Beloved, Poet)
1:36
1:36
46
Omar Khayyam, Part II: With Earth's first clay they did the last man knead (Poet)
2:10
2:10
47
Omar Khayyam, Part II: I tell you this - when, started from the goal (Philosopher)
3:30
3:30
48
Omar Khayyam, Part II: What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher)
4:41
4:41
49
Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
1:46
1:46
50
Omar Khayyam, Part II: Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
2:39
2:39
51
Omar Khayyam, Part III: Introduction The Fast of Ramazán
2:47
2:47
52
Omar Khayyam, Part III: Worshippers in the Mosque
4:10
4:10
53
Omar Khayyam, Part III: As under cover of departing day (Philosopher)
1:00
1:00
54
Omar Khayyam, Part III: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small (Chorus)
2:07
2:07
55
Omar Khayyam, Part III: Said one among them - Surely not in vain (First Pot)
6:36
6:36
56
Omar Khayyam, Part III: So while the vessels one by one were speaking (Chorus)
1:55
1:55
57
Omar Khayyam, Part III: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide (Philosopher)
2:26
2:26
58
Omar Khayyam, Part III: Indeed the idol I have loved so long (Philosopher)
1:48
1:48
59
Omar Khayyam, Part III: And much as wine has play'd the infidel (Philosopher)
2:14
2:14
60
Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose! (Poet)
2:35
2:35
61
Omar Khayyam, Part III: Would but the desert of the fountain yield (Poet)
6:34
6:34
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Omar Khayyam, Part III: Yon rising moon that looks for us again (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
1:33
1:33
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Omar Khayyam, Part III: And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass (Beloved, Poet, Philosopher, Chorus)
4:17
4:17