The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera

~ Release by John Gay, Benjamin Britten; Philip Langridge, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, John Rawnsley, Yvonne Kenny, Nuala Willis, Christopher Gillett, Steuart Bedford (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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1▼CD
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1The Beggar's Opera: Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry"
Benjamin Britten0:55
2The Beggar's Opera: Introduction, Overture
Benjamin Britten4:30
3The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 1 "Through all the employments of life"
Benjamin Britten1:56
4The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 2 "'Tis woman seduces all mankind"
Benjamin Britten2:08
5The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, Women are bitter bad judges... / no. 3 "If any wench Venus' girdle wear"
Benjamin Britten1:34
6The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 4 "If Love the virgin's heart invade"
Benjamin Britten2:06
7The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 5 "A Maid is like the golden ore"
Benjamin Britten1:25
8The 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 Britten2:27
9The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 7 "Our Polly is a sad slut!"
Benjamin Britten1:14
10The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 8 "Can love be controlled by advice?"
Benjamin Britten1:14
11The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "The girl shows such a readiness..." / no. 9 "O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed""
Benjamin Britten2:35
12The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 10 "I, like a ship in storms, was tossed"
Benjamin Britten0:50
13The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 11 "A fox may steal your hens, sir"
Benjamin Britten1:33
14The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 12 "O ponder well, be not severe" / no. 13 "The turtle thus with plaintive crying"
Benjamin Britten2:44
15The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 14 (Melodrama) "Now I am a wretch indeed!" / "Pretty Polly say"
Benjamin Britten2:57
16The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 15 "My heart was so free"
Benjamin Britten0:32
17The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 16 "Were I laid on Greenland's coast"
Benjamin Britten1:56
18The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 17 "O! what pain it is to part!"
Benjamin Britten1:00
19The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 18 "The miser thus a shilling sees"
Benjamin Britten2:55
20The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "And now our scene changes..." / no. 19 "Fill ev'ry glass"
Benjamin Britten1:58
21The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Success attend you!" / no. 20 "Let us take the road"
Benjamin Britten1:38
22The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 21 "If the heart of a man is depressed with cares"
Benjamin Britten2:14
23The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you're welcome!" / no. 22 "Youth's the season made for joys"
Benjamin Britten4:21
24The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "It is your own choice..." / no. 23 "Before the barn-door crowing"
Benjamin Britten1:00
25The 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 Britten2:26
2▼CD
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Noble Captain, you are welcome once more" / no. 26 "Man may escape from rope and gun"
Benjamin Britten3:51
2The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 27 "Thus when a good woman sees a rat"
Benjamin Britten0:45
3The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "It is the pleasure of all you fine men..." / no. 28 "How cruel are the traitors"
Benjamin Britten1:55
4The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 29 "The first time at the looking-glass"
Benjamin Britten1:06
5The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Fortune, be with you Lucy"
Benjamin Britten0:29
6The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Such language, brother!" / no. 30 "When you can censure the age"
Benjamin Britten0:48
7The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 31 "Is then his fate decreed, sir?"
Benjamin Britten2:18
8The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "O Macheath! I will stay with thee till death..." / no. 32 "Thus when the swallow"
Benjamin Britten1:48
9The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Shall I not claim my own?" / no. 33 "How happy I could be with either"
Benjamin Britten1:12
10The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself" / no. 34 "Cease your funning"
Benjamin Britten3:03
11The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 35 "Why how now, Madam Flirt!"
Benjamin Britten0:52
12The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 36 "No power on earth can e'er divide"
Benjamin Britten1:49
13The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But all scores have a reckoning"
Benjamin Britten0:44
14The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear sir, mention not my education..." / no. 37 "When young at the bar"
Benjamin Britten2:53
15The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 38 "Ungrateful Macheath!"
Benjamin Britten1:26
16The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 39 "Thus gamesters united in friendship"
Benjamin Britten1:38
17The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And Macheath, at liberty and at large..." / no. 40 "The modes of the Court"
Benjamin Britten2:47
18The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And those two good old friends"
Benjamin Britten0:23
19The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Bring us then more liquor!" / no. 41 "What Gudgeons are we men!"
Benjamin Britten1:39
20The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 42 "In the days of my youth"
Benjamin Britten2:31
21The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Jealously, rage, love and fear..." / no. 43 "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed"
Benjamin Britten2:31
22The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 44 "A curse attends a woman's love"
Benjamin Britten1:30
23The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But perhaps he hath a heart not capable of it" / no. 45 "Among the men coquets we find"
Benjamin Britten0:39
24The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 46 "Come, sweet lass"
Benjamin Britten1:06
25The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "What do I see! Oh! Macheath again in custody!!" / no. 47 "Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes"
Benjamin Britten1:42
26The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 48 "Which way shall I turn me"
Benjamin Britten0:39
27The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear, dear father, sink the evidence..." / no. 49 "When my hero in court appears"
Benjamin Britten1:49
28The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Oh sir, if Peachum's heart is hardened..." / no. 50 "When he holds up his hand"
Benjamin Britten1:58
29The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 51 "Ourselves, like the great"
Benjamin Britten0:38
30The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "We are ready, sir, to conduct you to the Old Bailey!" / no. 52 "The charge is prepared"
Benjamin Britten1:58
31The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 53 "O cruel, cruel case!"
Benjamin Britten5:14
32The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 54 "Would I might be hanged!"
Benjamin Britten2:36
33The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 55 "Thus I stand like the Turk"
Benjamin Britten1:51

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ASIN:UK: B000068QS3 [info]