The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera

Album by John Gay & Benjamin Britten & Philip Langridge & Anne Collins & Robert Lloyd & Ann Murray & John Rawnsley & Yvonne Kenny & Nuala Willis & Christopher Gillett & Steuart Bedford

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Beggar's Opera: Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry"
    0:54
  2. 2.
    The Beggar's Opera: Introduction, Overture
    4:30
  3. 3.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 1 "Through all the employments of life"
    1:55
  4. 4.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 2 "'Tis woman seduces all mankind"
    2:07
  5. 5.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, Women are bitter bad judges... / no. 3 "If any wench Venus' girdle wear"
    1:33
  6. 6.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 4 "If Love the virgin's heart invade"
    2:06
  7. 7.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 5 "A Maid is like the golden ore"
    1:24
  8. 8.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "I know as well as any of the fine ladies..." / no. 6 "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre"
    2:26
  9. 9.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 7 "Our Polly is a sad slut!"
    1:14
  10. 10.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 8 "Can love be controlled by advice?"
    1:13
  11. 11.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "The girl shows such a readiness..." / no. 9 "O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed""
    2:34
  12. 12.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 10 "I, like a ship in storms, was tossed"
    0:49
  13. 13.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 11 "A fox may steal your hens, sir"
    1:33
  14. 14.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 12 "O ponder well, be not severe" / no. 13 "The turtle thus with plaintive crying"
    2:44
  15. 15.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 14 (Melodrama) "Now I am a wretch indeed!" / "Pretty Polly say"
    2:57
  16. 16.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 15 "My heart was so free"
    0:32
  17. 17.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 16 "Were I laid on Greenland's coast"
    1:56
  18. 18.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 17 "O! what pain it is to part!"
    1:00
  19. 19.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 18 "The miser thus a shilling sees"
    2:55
  20. 20.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "And now our scene changes..." / no. 19 "Fill ev'ry glass"
    1:57
  21. 21.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Success attend you!" / no. 20 "Let us take the road"
    1:38
  22. 22.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 21 "If the heart of a man is depressed with cares"
    2:14
  23. 23.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you're welcome!" / no. 22 "Youth's the season made for joys"
    4:21
  24. 24.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "It is your own choice..." / no. 23 "Before the barn-door crowing"
    1:00
  25. 25.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "But to be sure, sir..." / no. 24 "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" / no. 25 "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure"
    2:25

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Noble Captain, you are welcome once more" / no. 26 "Man may escape from rope and gun"
    3:50
  2. 3.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 27 "Thus when a good woman sees a rat"
    0:44
  3. 4.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "It is the pleasure of all you fine men..." / no. 28 "How cruel are the traitors"
    1:55
  4. 5.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 29 "The first time at the looking-glass"
    1:06
  5. 6.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Fortune, be with you Lucy"
    0:29
  6. 7.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Such language, brother!" / no. 30 "When you can censure the age"
    0:47
  7. 8.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 31 "Is then his fate decreed, sir?"
    2:18
  8. 9.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "O Macheath! I will stay with thee till death..." / no. 32 "Thus when the swallow"
    1:48
  9. 10.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Shall I not claim my own?" / no. 33 "How happy I could be with either"
    1:12
  10. 11.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself" / no. 34 "Cease your funning"
    3:03
  11. 12.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 35 "Why how now, Madam Flirt!"
    0:52
  12. 13.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 36 "No power on earth can e'er divide"
    1:49
  13. 14.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But all scores have a reckoning"
    0:44
  14. 15.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear sir, mention not my education..." / no. 37 "When young at the bar"
    2:53
  15. 16.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 38 "Ungrateful Macheath!"
    1:26
  16. 17.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 39 "Thus gamesters united in friendship"
    1:38
  17. 18.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And Macheath, at liberty and at large..." / no. 40 "The modes of the Court"
    2:47
  18. 19.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And those two good old friends"
    0:22
  19. 20.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Bring us then more liquor!" / no. 41 "What Gudgeons are we men!"
    1:38
  20. 21.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 42 "In the days of my youth"
    2:31
  21. 22.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Jealously, rage, love and fear..." / no. 43 "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed"
    2:31
  22. 23.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 44 "A curse attends a woman's love"
    1:29
  23. 24.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But perhaps he hath a heart not capable of it" / no. 45 "Among the men coquets we find"
    0:38
  24. 25.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 46 "Come, sweet lass"
    1:06
  25. 26.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "What do I see! Oh! Macheath again in custody!!" / no. 47 "Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes"
    1:41
  26. 27.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 48 "Which way shall I turn me"
    0:39
  27. 28.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear, dear father, sink the evidence..." / no. 49 "When my hero in court appears"
    1:48
  28. 29.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Oh sir, if Peachum's heart is hardened..." / no. 50 "When he holds up his hand"
    1:57
  29. 30.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 51 "Ourselves, like the great"
    0:38
  30. 31.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "We are ready, sir, to conduct you to the Old Bailey!" / no. 52 "The charge is prepared"
    1:58
  31. 32.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 53 "O cruel, cruel case!"
    5:14
  32. 33.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 54 "Would I might be hanged!"
    2:36
  33. 34.
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 55 "Thus I stand like the Turk"
    1:51

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