The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera

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

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

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