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Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Philip Langridge (Macheath), Anne Collins (Mrs Peachum), Robert Lloyd (Peachum), Ann Murray (Mrs Peachum), John Rawnsley (Lockit), Yvonne Kenny (Lucy Lockit), Nuala Willis (Mrs Trapes), Christopher Gillett (Filch), Declan Mulholland (Beggar)

Steuart Bedford

Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Philip Langridge (Macheath), Anne Collins (Mrs Peachum), Robert Lloyd (Peachum), Ann Murray (Mrs Peachum), John Rawnsley (Lockit), Yvonne Kenny (Lucy Lockit), Nuala Willis (Mrs Trapes), Christopher Gillett (Filch), Declan Mulholland (Beggar)

Steuart Bedford

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  • Label: Argo
  • Catalogue number: 4368502
  • Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - realised by Benjamin Britten - Prologue & Act 1
Work length38:27
"If Poverty Be a Title To Poetry"
Track length0:54
Overture
Track length4:31
"Through All the Employments Of Life"
Track length1:55
"'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"
Track length2:08
"Women Are Bitter Bad Judges In These Cases...If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"
Track length1:34
"If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"
Track length2:06
"A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore"
Track length1:25
"I Know As Well As Any Of the Fine Ladies...Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower In Its Lustre"
Track length2:27
"Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"
Track length1:14
"Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice"
Track length1:13
"The Girl Shows Such a Readiness...O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"
Track length2:35
"I, Like a Ship In Storms, Was Tossed"
Track length0:50
"A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"
Track length1:33
"O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe...The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying"
Track length2:44
"Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say"
Track length2:58
"My Heart Was So Free"
Track length0:32
"Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast"
Track length1:56
"O! What Pain It Is To Part!"
Track length1:00
"The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"
Track length2:54
"And Now Our Scene Changes...Fill Ev'ry Glass"
Track length1:58
Gay: The Beggar's Opera - realised by Benjamin Britten / Act 2
Work length31:36
"Success Attend You...Let Us Take the Road"
Track length1:38
"If the Heart Of a Man Is Depressed With Cares"
Track length2:15
"Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome...Youth's the Season Made For Joys"
Track length4:21
"It Is Your Own Choice...Before the Barn Door Crowing"
Track length1:00
"But To Be Sure...The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike...At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure"
Track length2:26
"Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More...Man May Escape From Rope and Gun"
Track length3:50
"Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"
Track length0:45
"It Is the Pleasure Of All You Fine Men...How Cruel Are the Traitors"
Track length1:56
"The First Time At the Looking-Glass"
Track length1:06
"Fortune Be With You, Lucy"
Track length0:29
"Such Language, Brother! ...When You Censure the Age"
Track length0:48
"Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?"
Track length2:18
"O Macheath! I Will Stay With Thee Till Death...Thus When the Swallow"
Track length1:48
"Shall I Not Claim My Own?...How Happy Could I Be With Either"
Track length1:13
"Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself!...Cease Your Funning"
Track length3:03
"Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"
Track length0:52
"No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide"
Track length1:48
Gay: The Beggar's Opera - realised by Benjamin Britten / Act 3
Work length38:12
"But All Scores Have a Reckoning"
Track length0:44
"Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education...When Young At the Bar"
Track length2:53
"Ungrateful Macheath!"
Track length1:26
"Thus Gamesters United In Friendship"
Track length1:38
"And Macheath, At Liberty and At Large...The Modes Of the Court"
Track length2:48
"And Those Two Good Old Friends"
Track length0:22
"Bring Us Then More Liquor!...What Gudgeons Are We Men"
Track length1:39
"In the Days Of My Youth"
Track length2:31
"Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear...I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed"
Track length2:31
"A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"
Track length1:30
"But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable Of It...Among the Men Coquets We Find"
Track length0:39
"Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"
Track length1:06
"What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again In Custody!...Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"
Track length1:42
"Which Way Shall I Turn Me"
Track length0:39
"Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence...When My Hero In Court Appears"
Track length1:49
"Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened...When He Holds Up His Hand"
Track length1:58
"Ourselves, Like the Great"
Track length0:38
"We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You To the Old Bailey...The Charge Is Prepared"
Track length1:58
"O Cruel, Cruel Case"
Track length5:14
"Would I Might Be Hanged!"
Track length2:36
"Thus I Stand Like the Turk"
Track length1:51
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