Bantock - The Complete Omar Khayyam
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Label: Lyrita
Cat No: REAM2128
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 8th July 2016
Contents
Works
Fifine at the FairOmar Khayyam
Sappho, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
The Pierrot of the Minute
Artists
Sarah Walker (contralto)Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Brian Raynor Cook (baritone)
Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Norman Del MarWorks
Fifine at the FairOmar Khayyam
Sappho, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
The Pierrot of the Minute
Artists
Sarah Walker (contralto)Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Brian Raynor Cook (baritone)
Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Norman Del MarAbout
The subject matter was also daringly anti-religious and must have had an appeal to the increasingly literate, sceptical, and professional classes. Havergal Brian quotes Ernest Newman on the subject of Bantock’s Omar: “…it brings into English secular music, for the first time, the thoughts and feelings of men brought up in the full tide of modern culture and modern humanism.”
The work is scored for three soloists, a large chorus and a very large orchestra. The strings are divided into two complete string orchestras, one on either side of the conductor, a device by which Bantock procured a number of new and subtle effects. In the first decade of the twentieth century no other secular-philosophical work existed on such a scale.
Omar was widely performed during the first half of the 20th century, but since Bantock’s death in 1946, performances have been dependent on anniversaries and external historic events.
This studio recording was the product of 11 years planning by a single BBC producer determined to preserve one of the most astounding choral works ever created. It remains, 37 years later, the only complete recording ever made of the work.
Contents:
CD1:
Omar Khayyám, Part 1 (1906): Quatrains 1-47
CD2:
Omar Khayyám, Part 1: Quatrains 48-54
Omar Khayyám, Part 2 (1907): Quatrains 55-81
CD3:
Omar Khayyám, Part 3 (1909): Quatrains 82-101
- Sarah Walker (contralto)
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
- Brian Raynor Cook (baritone)
- BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fifine at the Fair (1912)
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
CD4:
Sappho, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1906)
- Johanna Peters (contralto)
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
The Pierrot of the Minute (1908)
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Broadcast 26 March 1979 (Omar Khayyám: first complete broadcast); 7 August 1968 (Fifine, Sappho, Pierrot)
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