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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CD 1
1
The Beggar's Opera: Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry"
Benjamin Britten
0:54
2
The Beggar's Opera: Introduction, Overture
Benjamin Britten
4:30
3
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 1 "Through all the employments of life"
Benjamin Britten
1:55
4
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 2 "'Tis woman seduces all mankind"
Benjamin Britten
2:07
5
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, Women are bitter bad judges... / no. 3 "If any wench Venus' girdle wear"
Benjamin Britten
1:33
6
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 4 "If Love the virgin's heart invade"
Benjamin Britten
2:06
7
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 5 "A Maid is like the golden ore"
Benjamin Britten
1:24
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"
Benjamin Britten
2:26
9
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 7 "Our Polly is a sad slut!"
Benjamin Britten
1:14
10
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 8 "Can love be controlled by advice?"
Benjamin Britten
1:13
11
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "The girl shows such a readiness..." / no. 9 "O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed""
Benjamin Britten
2:34
12
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 10 "I, like a ship in storms, was tossed"
Benjamin Britten
0:49
13
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 11 "A fox may steal your hens, sir"
Benjamin Britten
1:33
14
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 12 "O ponder well, be not severe" / no. 13 "The turtle thus with plaintive crying"
Benjamin Britten
2:44
15
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 14 (Melodrama) "Now I am a wretch indeed!" / "Pretty Polly say"
Benjamin Britten
2:57
16
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 15 "My heart was so free"
Benjamin Britten
0:32
17
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 16 "Were I laid on Greenland's coast"
Benjamin Britten
1:56
18
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 17 "O! what pain it is to part!"
Benjamin Britten
1:00
19
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 18 "The miser thus a shilling sees"
Benjamin Britten
2:55
20
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "And now our scene changes..." / no. 19 "Fill ev'ry glass"
Benjamin Britten
1:57
21
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Success attend you!" / no. 20 "Let us take the road"
Benjamin Britten
1:38
22
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 21 "If the heart of a man is depressed with cares"
Benjamin Britten
2:14
23
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you're welcome!" / no. 22 "Youth's the season made for joys"
Benjamin Britten
4:21
24
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "It is your own choice..." / no. 23 "Before the barn-door crowing"
Benjamin Britten
1:00
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"
Benjamin Britten
2:25
CD 2
1
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Noble Captain, you are welcome once more" / no. 26 "Man may escape from rope and gun"
Benjamin Britten
3:50
2
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 27 "Thus when a good woman sees a rat"
Benjamin Britten
0:44
3
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "It is the pleasure of all you fine men..." / no. 28 "How cruel are the traitors"
Benjamin Britten
1:55
4
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 29 "The first time at the looking-glass"
Benjamin Britten
1:06
5
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Fortune, be with you Lucy"
Benjamin Britten
0:29
6
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Such language, brother!" / no. 30 "When you can censure the age"
Benjamin Britten
0:47
7
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 31 "Is then his fate decreed, sir?"
Benjamin Britten
2:18
8
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "O Macheath! I will stay with thee till death..." / no. 32 "Thus when the swallow"
Benjamin Britten
1:48
9
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Shall I not claim my own?" / no. 33 "How happy I could be with either"
Benjamin Britten
1:12
10
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself" / no. 34 "Cease your funning"
Benjamin Britten
3:03
11
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 35 "Why how now, Madam Flirt!"
Benjamin Britten
0:52
12
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 36 "No power on earth can e'er divide"
Benjamin Britten
1:49
13
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But all scores have a reckoning"
Benjamin Britten
0:44
14
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear sir, mention not my education..." / no. 37 "When young at the bar"
Benjamin Britten
2:53
15
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 38 "Ungrateful Macheath!"
Benjamin Britten
1:26
16
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 39 "Thus gamesters united in friendship"
Benjamin Britten
1:38
17
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And Macheath, at liberty and at large..." / no. 40 "The modes of the Court"
Benjamin Britten
2:47
18
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And those two good old friends"
Benjamin Britten
0:22
19
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Bring us then more liquor!" / no. 41 "What Gudgeons are we men!"
Benjamin Britten
1:38
20
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 42 "In the days of my youth"
Benjamin Britten
2:31
21
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Jealously, rage, love and fear..." / no. 43 "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed"
Benjamin Britten
2:31
22
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 44 "A curse attends a woman's love"
Benjamin Britten
1:29
23
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But perhaps he hath a heart not capable of it" / no. 45 "Among the men coquets we find"
Benjamin Britten
0:38
24
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 46 "Come, sweet lass"
Benjamin Britten
1:06
25
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "What do I see! Oh! Macheath again in custody!!" / no. 47 "Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes"
Benjamin Britten
1:41
26
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 48 "Which way shall I turn me"
Benjamin Britten
0:39
27
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear, dear father, sink the evidence..." / no. 49 "When my hero in court appears"
Benjamin Britten
1:48
28
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Oh sir, if Peachum's heart is hardened..." / no. 50 "When he holds up his hand"
Benjamin Britten
1:57
29
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 51 "Ourselves, like the great"
Benjamin Britten
0:38
30
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "We are ready, sir, to conduct you to the Old Bailey!" / no. 52 "The charge is prepared"
Benjamin Britten
1:58
31
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 53 "O cruel, cruel case!"
Benjamin Britten
5:14
32
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 54 "Would I might be hanged!"
Benjamin Britten
2:36
33
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 55 "Thus I stand like the Turk"
Benjamin Britten
1:51