Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Robert Lloyd, Anne Collins & John Rawnsley

1993-01-01 • Classical

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Tracklist

  • 1
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Prologue: "If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry"
    0:55
  • 2
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Prologue: Overture
    4:30
  • 3
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Through All the Employments of Life"
    1:56
  • 4
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"
    2:08
  • 5
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Women Are Bitter Bad Judges in These Cases. If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"
    1:34
  • 6
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"
    2:06
  • 7
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore"
    1:25
  • 8
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "I Know As Well As Any of the Fine Ladies. Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre"
    2:27
  • 9
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"
    1:14
  • 10
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice"
    1:14
  • 11
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "The Girl Shows Such a Readiness. O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"
    2:35
  • 12
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed"
    0:50
  • 13
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"
    1:33
  • 14
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe. The Turtle Thus with Plaintive Crying"
    2:44
  • 15
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed. Pretty Polly Say"
    2:57
  • 16
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "My Heart Was so Free"
    0:32
  • 17
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast"
    1:56
  • 18
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "O! What Pain It Is to Part!"
    1:00
  • 19
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"
    2:55
  • 20
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "And Now Our Scene Changes. Fill Ev'ry Glass"
    1:58
  • 21
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Success Attend You. Let Us Take the Road"
    1:38
  • 22
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares"
    2:14
  • 23
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome. Youth's the Season Made for Joys"
    4:21
  • 24
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "It Is Your Own Choice. Before the Barn Door Crowing"
    1:00
  • 25
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "But to Be Sure. The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike. At the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure"
    2:26
  • 26
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More. Man May Escape from Rope and Gun"
    3:51
  • 27
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"
    0:45
  • 28
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "It Is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men. How Cruel Are the Traitors"
    1:55
  • 29
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "The First Time at the Looking-Glass"
    1:06
  • 30
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Fortune Be with You, Lucy"
    0:29
  • 31
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Such Language, Brother! When You Censure the Age"
    0:48
  • 32
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?"
    2:18
  • 33
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "O Macheath! I Will Stay with Thee Till Death. Thus When the Swallow"
    1:48
  • 34
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Shall I Not Claim My Own? How Happy Could I Be with Either"
    1:12
  • 35
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself! Cease Your Funning"
    3:03
  • 36
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"
    0:52
  • 37
    The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43, Act II: "No Pow'r on Earth Can E'er Divide"
    1:49
  • 38
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "But All Scores Have a Reckoning"
    0:44
  • 39
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education. When Young at the Bar"
    2:53
  • 40
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Ungrateful Macheath!"
    1:26
  • 41
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Thus Gamesters United in Friendship"
    1:38
  • 42
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "And Macheath, At Liberty and at Large.The Modes of the Court"
    2:47
  • 43
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "And Those Two Good Old Friends"
    0:23
  • 44
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Bring Us Then More Liquor! What Gudgeons Are We Men"
    1:39
  • 45
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "In the Days of My Youth"
    2:31
  • 46
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear. I'm Like a Skiff on the Ocean Tossed"
    2:31
  • 47
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"
    1:30
  • 48
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable of It. Among the Men Coquets We Find"
    0:39
  • 49
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"
    1:06
  • 50
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again in Custody! Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"
    1:42
  • 51
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Which Way Shall I Turn Me"
    0:39
  • 52
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence. When My Hero in Court Appears"
    1:49
  • 53
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened. When He Holds up His Hand"
    1:58
  • 54
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Ourselves, Like the Great"
    0:38
  • 55
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You to the Old Bailey. The Charge Is Prepared"
    1:58
  • 56
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "O Cruel, Cruel Case"
    5:14
  • 57
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Would I Might Be Hanged!"
    2:36
  • 58
    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Thus I Stand Like the Turk"
    1:51