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John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford
The Beggar's Opera
Album 1993 on Argo label
Classical (Opera)
“A ballad opera in three acts by John Gay (1685-1732) in a new musical version realised from the original airs by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)” 208 page booklet contains liner notes, synopsis & libretto in English with French, German & Italian translation. Slipcase
Musicians
 | John Gay , 1685-1732 GB libretto by, album by |
 | Benjamin Britten p, 1913-1976 GB arranged by, album by |
 | Ann Murray voc, *1949 IE mezzo-soprano vocals, polly, album by |
 | Yvonne Kenny , *1950 AU soprano vocals, lucy lockit, album by |
 | Anne Collins voc, 1943-2009 GB mezzo-soprano vocals, mrs peachum, album by |
 | Philip Langridge voc, 1939-2010 GB tenor vocals, macheath, album by |
 | John Rawnsley voc, *1950 GB baritone vocals, lockit, album by |
 | Robert Lloyd voc, *1940 GB bass vocals, peachum, album by |
 | Steuart Bedford p, *1939 GB conductor, album by |
 | Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble , chorus |
 | Nuala Willis mezzo-soprano vocals, mrs trapes |
| The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra orchestra |
 | Christopher Gillett voc, GB tenor vocals, filch |
Album Tracks 
| No | |
Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Introduction | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 2 | | If Poverty Be a Title To Poetry | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 3 | | Overture | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 4 | | Act One | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 5 | | Through All the Employments Of Life | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 6 | | 'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 7 | | Women Are Bitter Bad Judges In These Cases...If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 8 | | If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 9 | | A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 10 | | I Know As Well As Any Of the Fine Ladies...Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower In Its Lustre | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 11 | | Our Polly Is a Sad Slut | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 12 | | Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 13 | | The Girl Shows Such a Readiness...O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 14 | | I, Like a Ship In Storms, Was Tossed | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 15 | | A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 16 | | O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe...The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 17 | | Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 18 | | My Heart Was So Free | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 19 | | Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 20 | | O! What Pain It Is To Part! | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 21 | | The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 22 | | And Now Our Scene Changes...Fill Ev'ry Glass | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 23 | | Success Attend You...Let Us Take the Road | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 24 | | If the Heart Of a Man Is Depressed With Cares | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 25 | | Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome...Youth's the Season Made For Joys | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 26 | | "It Is Your Own Choice...Before the Barn Door Crowing | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 27 | | But To Be Sure...The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike...At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 28 | | Act Two | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 29 | | Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More...Man May Escape From Rope and Gun | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 30 | | Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 31 | | It Is the Pleasure Of All You Fine Men...How Cruel Are the Traitors | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 32 | | The First Time At the Looking-Glass | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 33 | | Fortune Be With You, Lucy | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 34 | | Such Language, Brother! ...When You Censure the Age | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 35 | | Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 36 | | O Macheath! I Will Stay With Thee Till Death...Thus When the Swallow | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | ||
| 37 | Shall I Not Claim My Own?...How Happy Could I Be With Either | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 38 | Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself!...Cease Your Funning | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 39 | Why How Now, Madam Flirt? | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 40 | No Power On Earth Can E'er Divide | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 41 | Act Three | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 42 | But All Scores Have a Reckoning | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 43 | Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education...When Young At the Bar | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 44 | Ungrateful Macheath! | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 45 | Thus Gamesters United In Friendship | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 46 | And Macheath, At Liberty and At Large...The Modes Of the Court | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 47 | And Those Two Good Old Friends | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 48 | "Bring Us Then More Liquor!...What Gudgeons Are We Men | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 49 | In the Days Of My Youth | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 50 | Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear...I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 51 | A Curse Attends a Woman's Love | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 52 | But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable Of It...Among the Men Coquets We Find | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 53 | Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 54 | What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again In Custody!...Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 55 | Which Way Shall I Turn Me | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 56 | Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence...When My Hero In Court Appears | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 57 | Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened...When He Holds Up His Hand | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 58 | Ourselves, Like the Great | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 59 | We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You To the Old Bailey...The Charge Is Prepared | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 60 | O Cruel, Cruel Case | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 61 | Would I Might Be Hanged | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford | |||
| 62 | Thus I Stand Like the Turk | John Gay, Benjamin Britten - Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford |
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