Tracklist

  • Digital Media 1
  • 1
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Prologue: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry
    John Gay
    2:10
  • 2
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Prologue: Overture
    John Gay
    4:38
  • 3
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Through All the Employments of Life
    John Gay
    2:16
  • 4
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
    John Gay
    3:10
  • 5
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
    John Gay
    3:57
  • 6
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore
    John Gay
    1:46
  • 7
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre
    John Gay
    2:50
  • 8
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Our Polly Is a Sad Slut
    John Gay
    1:56
  • 9
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice
    John Gay
    2:27
  • 10
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed
    John Gay
    3:07
  • 11
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
    John Gay
    2:23
  • 12
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe – The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
    John Gay
    2:58
  • 13
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Pretty Polly Say
    John Gay
    2:05
  • 14
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: My Heart Was So Free
    John Gay
    1:26
  • 15
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast
    John Gay
    2:24
  • 16
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Yes, I Would Go With Thee – O! What Pain It Is to Part!
    John Gay
    3:06
  • 17
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Fill Ev'ry Glass
    John Gay
    2:44
  • 18
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Let Us Take the Road
    John Gay
    1:50
  • 19
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed With Cares
    John Gay
    2:45
  • 20
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Youth's the Season Made for Joys
    John Gay
    2:50
  • 21
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Before the Barn Door Crowing
    John Gay
    2:00
  • 22
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike
    John Gay
    2:08
  • 23
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure
    John Gay
    1:36
  • Digital Media 2
  • 1
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Man May Escape from Rope and Gun
    John Gay
    3:39
  • 2
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat
    John Gay
    1:59
  • 3
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: How Cruel Are the Traitors
    John Gay
    2:48
  • 4
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: The First Time At the Looking-Glass
    John Gay
    1:20
  • 5
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: When You Censure the Age
    John Gay
    1:12
  • 6
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?
    John Gay
    1:58
  • 7
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: You'll Think, Ere Many Days Ensue
    John Gay
    2:23
  • 8
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Thus When the Swallow
    John Gay
    1:52
  • 9
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: How Happy Could I Be With Either
    John Gay
    2:04
  • 10
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Cease Your Funning
    John Gay
    2:00
  • 11
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Why How Now, Madam Flirt?
    John Gay
    1:18
  • 12
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide
    John Gay
    2:26
  • 13
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: I Like the Fox Shall Grieve
    John Gay
    2:14
  • 14
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Introduction – To Be Sure, Wench, You Must've Been
    John Gay
    2:18
  • 15
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: When Young At the Bar
    John Gay
    2:06
  • 16
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: And so You Have Let Him Escape – My Love Is All Madness
    John Gay
    2:05
  • 17
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: The Modes of the Court
    John Gay
    1:47
  • 18
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: What Gudgeons Are We Men
    John Gay
    1:50
  • 19
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: In the Days of My Youth
    John Gay
    4:47
  • 20
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed
    John Gay
    2:37
  • 21
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow
    John Gay
    2:01
  • 22
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes
    John Gay
    1:25
  • 23
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Which Way Shall I Turn Me
    John Gay
    0:46
  • 24
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: When My Hero in Court Appears
    John Gay
    1:58
  • 25
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: When He Holds Up His Hand
    John Gay
    1:34
  • 26
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: The Charge Is Prepared
    John Gay
    2:18
  • 27
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: O Cruel, Cruel Case
    John Gay
    3:18
  • 28
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Would I Might Be Hanged!
    John Gay
    3:23
  • 29
    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: But, Honest Friend, I Hope You Don't Intend
    John Gay
    2:07
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    The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Thus I Stand Like the Turk
    John Gay
    2:37

More by John Gay, Kiri Te Kanawa, James Morris, Dame Joan Sutherland, Angela Lansbury, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael Hordern, Warren Mitchell, Alfred Marks, Regina Resnik, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

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