Album
Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera
John GaySteuart BedfordPhilip LangridgeAnn MurrayYvonne KennyRobert LloydAnne CollinsJohn RawnsleyThe Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
1993 · album · 50 tracks
Tracks
- 1The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue: "If Poverty Be a Title To Poetry"0:55
- 2The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue: Overture4:30
- 3The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Through All the Employments Of Life"1:56
- 4The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"2:08
- 5The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Women Are Bitter Bad Judges In These Cases...If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"1:34
- 6The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"2:06
- 7The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore"1:25
- 8The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "I Know As Well As Any Of the Fine Ladies...Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower In Its Lustre"2:27
- 9The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"1:14
- 10The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice"1:14
- 11The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "The Girl Shows Such a Readiness...O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"2:35
- 12The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "I, Like a Ship In Storms, Was Tossed"0:50
- 13The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"1:33
- 14The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe...The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying"2:44
- 15The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say"2:57
- 16The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "My Heart Was So Free"0:32
- 17The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast"1:56
- 18The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "O! What Pain It Is To Part!"1:00
- 19The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"2:55
- 20The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "And Now Our Scene Changes...Fill Ev'ry Glass"1:58
- 21The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Success Attend You...Let Us Take the Road"1:38
- 22The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "If the Heart Of a Man Is Depressed With Cares"2:14
- 23The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome...Youth's the Season Made For Joys"4:21
- 24The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "It Is Your Own Choice...Before the Barn Door Crowing"1:00
- 25The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "But To Be Sure...The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike...At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure"2:26
- 26The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More...Man May Escape From Rope and Gun"3:51
- 27The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"0:45
- 28The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "It Is the Pleasure Of All You Fine Men...How Cruel Are the Traitors"1:55
- 29The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "The First Time At the Looking-Glass"1:06
- 30The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Fortune Be With You, Lucy"0:29
- 31The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Such Language, Brother! ...When You Censure the Age"0:48
- 32The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?"2:18
- 33The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "O Macheath! I Will Stay With Thee Till Death...Thus When the Swallow"1:48
- 34The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Shall I Not Claim My Own?...How Happy Could I Be With Either"1:12
- 35The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself!...Cease Your Funning"3:03
- 36The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"0:52
- 37The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide"1:49
- 38The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "But All Scores Have a Reckoning"0:44
- 39The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education...When Young At the Bar"2:53
- 40The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Ungrateful Macheath!"1:26
- 41The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Thus Gamesters United In Friendship"1:38
- 42The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "And Macheath, At Liberty and At Large...The Modes Of the Court"2:47
- 43The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "And Those Two Good Old Friends"0:23
- 44The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Bring Us Then More Liquor!...What Gudgeons Are We Men"1:39
- 45The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "In the Days Of My Youth"2:31
- 46The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear...I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed"2:31
- 47The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"1:30
- 48The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable Of It...Among the Men Coquets We Find"0:39
- 49The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"1:06
- 50The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again In Custody!...Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"1:42