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Special offer. Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Sirena Tocco, Jeremy White (bass), Robert Anthony Gardiner, Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Leah-Marian Jones, Tom Randle (tenor), Aidan Smith, Ben Thapa, Paul Hopwood, Thomas Barnard, Bryn Evans, Mark Saberton, Kathryn Jenkin, Siobháin Gibson, Clare McCaldin, Bernadette Lord, Alison Place, Miranda...

Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Special offer. Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Sirena Tocco, Jeremy White (bass), Robert Anthony Gardiner, Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Leah-Marian Jones, Tom Randle (tenor), Aidan Smith, Ben Thapa, Paul Hopwood, Thomas Barnard, Bryn Evans, Mark Saberton, Kathryn Jenkin, Siobháin Gibson, Clare McCaldin, Bernadette Lord, Alison Place, Miranda...

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  • Release date: 1st Oct 2009
  • Label: Chandos
  • Catalogue number: CHAN10548W
  • Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Introduction
Work length1:17
If Poverty be a title to Poetry (Beggar)
Track length1:17
Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43
Work length4:24
Overture
Track length4:24
Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I
Work length46:48
Through all the employments of life (Peachum)
Track length1:18
Sir, black Moll hath sent word (Flich, Peachum)
Track length0:42
Tis Woman that seduces all Mankind (Filch, Peachum)
Track length1:17
But it is now high time to look about me (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
Track length1:13
Women indeed are bitter bad judges … ev'ry Man handsom who is going to the Camp - if any wench Venus' Girdle wear (Mrs Peachum)
Track length0:53
Was Captain Macheath here this morning? (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
Track length0:54
If Love the Virgin's Heart invade (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
Track length1:52
A Maid is like the Golden ore (Mrs Peachum)
Track length0:29
Come hither, Filch (Mrs Peachum, Filch)
Track length0:59
I know as well as any of the fine ladies - Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre (Polly, Peachum)
Track length2:23
Our Polly is a sad slut! (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly, Omnes)
Track length1:19
Can Love be controlled by Advice? (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
Track length1:17
The girl shows such a readiness - O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Omnes)
Track length2:17
I, like a Ship in storms, was tossed (Polly, Mrs Peachum)
Track length0:53
A fox may steal your hens, Sir (Peachum, Mrs Peachum, Polly)
Track length1:45
O ponder well! Be not severe (Polly, Mrs Peachum)
Track length0:49
The Turtle thus with plaintive crying, her Lover dying (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
Track length1:51
Now I'm a wretch indeed! (Polly, Macheath, Omnes)
Track length3:02
My heart was so free (Macheath, Polly)
Track length0:48
Were I laid on Greenland's coast (Macheath, Polly, Omnes)
Track length1:59
O! what pain it is to part! (Polly, Macheath)
Track length0:55
The Miser thus a shilling sees (Macheath, Polly)
Track length2:25
But pr'thee, Mat, what is become of thy brother Tom? (Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Jemmy Twitcher, Nimming Ned, Harry Paddington, Wat Dreary)
Track length0:41
Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us (Gentlemen of the Road)
Track length0:49
Gentlemen, well met (Macheath, Mat of the Mint)
Track length0:37
I shall wish myself with you - Let us take the road (Macheath, Harry Paddington, Gentlemen of the Road)
Track length1:49
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares (Macheath)
Track length2:05
Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome - Youth's the season made for joys (Macheath, Ladies of the Town)
Track length4:35
Now pray, ladies, take your places (Macheath, Jenny Diver, Mrs Coaxer)
Track length0:54
It is your own choice - Before the barn-door crowing (Jenny Diver, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky Tawdry, Ladies of the Town)
Track length1:32
But to be sure, Sir - The Gamesters and Lawyers are jugglers alike (Jenny Diver, Betty Doxy, Macheath, Peachum, Ladies of the Town)
Track length1:39
The gentlemen, ladies, lodges in Newgate - Constables, wait upon the Captain to his lodgings - At the Tree I shall suffer with pleasure (Peachum, Macheath)
Track length0:47
Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II
Work length22:46
Noble Captain, you are welcome (Lockit, Macheath)
Track length0:52
Man may escape from rope and gun (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
Track length3:28
Thus when a good Housewife sees a rat (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
Track length0:44
It is the pleasure of all you fine men - How cruel are the traytors (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
Track length2:32
The first time at the looking glass (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
Track length1:13
In this last affair, brother Peachum, we are agreed (Lockit, Peachum)
Track length0:45
Such language, brother, anywhere else - When you censure the age (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
Track length1:08
Is then his fate decreed, Sir? (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
Track length1:42
Though the Chaplain was out of the way to-day (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Polly)
Track length1:09
Thus when the Swallow seeking prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
Track length1:54
If women's tongues can cease for an answer - I will not! - How happy could I be with either (Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Polly)
Track length1:26
Cease your funning (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Omnes)
Track length2:48
Why how now, Madam Flirt! (Lucy Lockit, Polly, Peachum, Lockit)
Track length1:05
Now power on earth can e'er divide (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes)
Track length2:00
Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III
Work length42:06
To be sure, wench, you must have been aiding and abetting (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
Track length0:49
Dear Sir, mention not my education (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
Track length3:19
Ungrateful Macheath! (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
Track length1:06
Thus Gamesters united in friendship are found (Lockit)
Track length1:43
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)
Track length2:43
The Coronation account, brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum, Mrs Trapes)
Track length2:14
In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove (Mrs Trapes, Lockit, Peachum)
Track length2:21
In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove (Mrs Trapes, Beggar)
Track length0:39
Jealousy, rage, love and fear (Lucy Lockit)
Track length1:07
I have the Rat's-bane ready (Lucy Lockit, Filch, Polly)
Track length2:12
A curse attends a woman's love (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
Track length1:38
When I was forced from him (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
Track length1:02
Come, sweet lass (Lucy Lockit, Polly)
Track length1:55
Now every glimmering of happiness is lost (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Peachum)
Track length1:45
Which way shall I turn me, how can I decide? (Macheath, Polly)
Track length0:41
Dear, dear Sir, sink the material evidence (Polly)
Track length1:53
How then can you be a tyrant to me - When he holds up his hand arraigned for his life (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
Track length2:00
Ourselves, like the Great, to secure a retreat (Lockit, Peachum)
Track length0:45
We are ready, Sir… - … to conduct you to the Old Bailey! (Lockit, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Macheath, Peachum, Omnes)
Track length1:54
O cruel, cruel case! (Macheath, Jailer)
Track length5:10
Would I might be hanged! (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
Track length1:59
But surely you don't intend that Macheath shall really be executed? (Mat of the Mint, Beggar, Ben Budge, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Lockit, Peachum)
Track length1:18
Thus I stand like a Turk, with his doxies around (Macheath, Mrs Peachum, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Mrs Trapes, Lockit, Ladies of the Town, Gentlemen of the Road)
Track length1:53
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