Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Susan Bickley, Jeremy White, Leah-Marian Jones, Thomas Randle, Robert Anthony Gardiner & Donald Maxwell

2009-10-01 • Classical

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Tracklist

1
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Introduction: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry (Beggar)
1:18
2
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43: Overture
4:25
3
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Through All the Employments of Life (Peachum)
1:19
4
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Sir, Black Moll Hath Sent Word (Flich, Peachum)
0:43
5
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind (Filch, Peachum)
1:17
6
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But It is Now High Time to Look About Me (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)
1:13
7
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Women Indeed Are Bitter Bad Judges … Ev'ry Man Handsom Who is Going to the Camp - If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear (Mrs. Peachum)
0:53
8
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Was Captain Macheath Here This Morning? (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)
0:55
9
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)
1:53
10
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A Maid is Like the Golden Ore (Mrs. Peachum)
0:29
11
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Come Hither, Filch (Mrs. Peachum, Filch)
0:59
12
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I Know as Well as Any of the Fine Ladies - Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre (Polly, Peachum)
2:23
13
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Our Polly is a Sad Slut! (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum, Polly, Omnes)
1:19
14
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Can Love Be Controlled by Advice? (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)
1:17
15
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Girl Shows Such a Readiness - O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Omnes)
2:18
16
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)
0:53
17
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum, Polly)
1:46
18
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O Ponder Well! Be Not Severe (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)
0:49
19
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying, Her Lover Dying (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)
1:52
20
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now I'm a Wretch Indeed! (Polly, Macheath, Omnes)
3:03
21
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: My Heart Was So Free (Macheath, Polly)
0:48
22
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast (Macheath, Polly, Omnes)
1:59
23
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O! What Pain It is to Part! (Polly, Macheath)
0:56
24
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees (Macheath, Polly)
2:26
25
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But Pr'thee, Mat, What is Become of Thy Brother Tom? (Mat of the Mint, Jemmy Twitcher, Nimming Ned, Harry Paddington, Wat Dreary)
0:42
26
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Fill Ev'ry Glass, for Wine Inspires Us (Gentlemen of the Road)
0:49
27
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Gentlemen, Well Met (Macheath, Mat of the Mint)
0:37
28
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I Shall Wish Myself With You - Let Us Take the Road (Macheath, Harry Paddington, Gentlemen of the Road)
1:49
29
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If the Heart of a Man is Depressed With Cares (Macheath)
2:05
30
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Dear Mrs. Coaxer, You Are Welcome - Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Macheath, Ladies of the Town)
4:35
31
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now Pray, Ladies, Take Your Places (Macheath, Jenny Diver, Mrs. Coaxer)
0:54
32
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: It is Your Own Choice - Before the Barn-door Crowing (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky Tawdry)
1:33
33
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But to Be Sure, Sir - the Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Betty Doxy, Macheath, Peachum)
1:39
34
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Gentlemen, Ladies, Lodges in Newgate - Constables, Wait Upon the Captain to His Lodgings - at the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure (Peachum, Macheath)
0:47
1
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Noble Captain, You Are Welcome (Lockit, Macheath)
0:52
2
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Man May Escape From Rope and Gun (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
3:29
3
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
0:45
4
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: It is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men - How Cruel Are the Traytors (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
2:32
5
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: The First Time at the Looking Glass (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
1:14
6
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: in This Last Affair, Brother Peachum, We Are Agreed (Lockit, Peachum)
0:46
7
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Such Language, Brother, Anywhere Else - When You Censure the Age (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
1:08
8
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
1:42
9
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Though the Chaplain Was Out of the Way To-day (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Polly)
1:10
10
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When the Swallow Seeking Prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
1:55
11
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: If Women's Tongues Can Cease for an Answer - I Will Not! - How Happy Could I Be With Either - I'm Bubbled, Oh How I Am Troubled! (Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Polly)
1:27
12
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Cease Your Funning (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Omnes)
2:48
13
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Why How Now, Madam Flirt! (Lucy Lockit, Polly, Peachum, Lockit)
1:06
14
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Now Power on Earth Can E'er Divide (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes)
2:01
15
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: To Be Sure, Wench, You Must Have Been Aiding and Abetting (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
0:49
16
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
3:20
17
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ungrateful Macheath! (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
1:06
18
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus Gamesters United in Friendship Are Found (Lockit)
1:44
19
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Our Scene Doth Represent a Gaming House - the Modes of the Court So Common Are Grown (Beggar, Macheath, Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Omnes)ar,
2:43
20
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum, Mrs. Trapes)
2:15
21
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: in the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Lockit, Peachum)
2:22
22
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: in the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Beggar)
0:40
23
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear (Lucy Lockit)
1:07
24
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: I Have the Rat's-bane Ready (Lucy Lockit, Filch, Polly)
2:13
25
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: A Curse Attends a Woman's Love (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
1:38
26
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: When I Was Forced From Him (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
1:03
27
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Come, Sweet Lass (Lucy Lockit, Polly)
1:55
28
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Now Every Glimmering of Happiness is Lost (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Peachum)
1:46
29
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Which Way Shall I Turn Me, How Can I Decide? (Macheath, Polly)
0:41
30
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear, Dear Sir, Sink the Material Evidence (Polly)
1:53
31
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: How Then Can You Be a Tyrant to Me - When He Holds Up His Hand Arraigned for His Life (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
2:00
32
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ourselves, Like the Great, to Secure a Retreat (Lockit, Peachum)
0:45
33
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: We Are Ready, Sir… - … to Conduct You to the Old Bailey! - The Charge is Prepared; the Lawyers Are Met (Lockit, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes, Mrs. Peachum)
1:54
34
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: O Cruel, Cruel Case! (Macheath, Jailer)
5:11
35
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Would I Might Be Hanged! (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
1:59
36
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: But Surely You Don't Intend That Macheath Shall Really Be Executed? (Mat of the Mint, Beggar, Ben Budge, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Lockit, Peachum)
1:18
37
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus I Stand Like a Turk, With His Doxies Around (Macheath, Mrs, Peachum, Peachum, Ladies of the Town, Gentlemen of the Road, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Mrs. Trapes, Lockit)
1:54

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