Bantock: Omar Khayyám
Sarah Walker (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & Brian Raynor Cook (baritone), Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar
This 1979 revival…is complete, and much livelier [than Handley’s performance] with equally fine soloists…it’s well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair, based... — More…
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Bantock: Omar Khayyám
- Sarah Walker, Brian Rayner Cook, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
- Norman Del Mar
- Recorded: 7 August 1968
Pt. 1: Prelude
Pt. 1, Quantrains 1-3: "Wake! For The Sun, Who Scattered Into Flight
Pt. 1, Quantrains 4-8: "Now The New Year Reviving Old Desires"
Bantock: Fifine at the Fair - A Defence of Inconstancy
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
- Norman Del Mar
- Recorded: 7 August 1968
Bantock: Sappho
- Johanna Peters
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
- Norman Del Mar
- Recorded: 7 August 1968
Prelude
Fragment I. "Hymn To Aphrodite, Daughter Of Zeus"
Fragment II. "I Loved Thee Once, Atthis, Long Ago"
Bantock: The Pierrot Of The Minute
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Norman Del Mar
- Recorded: 7 August 1968