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John Gay
The Beggar's Opera

Album US 1964 on Everest label
Classical (Opera)

2 LPs housed in a boxset with 32-page libretto

     
Musicians
PortraitJohn Gay , 1685-1732 GB
album by
PortraitRonald Lewis , 1916-1967 GB
baritone vocals
PortraitJohn Frost voc, b,
bass vocals
PortraitMax Goberman vn, 1911-1962 US
conductor
PortraitMary Thomas voc, 1932-1997 GB
soprano vocals
PortraitEdgar Fleet voc, GB
tenor vocals
PortraitWilliam McAlpine , 1922-2004 GB
tenor vocals
Doreen Murray
vocals
PortraitJean Allister voc,
vocals
Album Tracks   
No Title Artist Composer Duration
1Through All Employments Of LifeJohn Gay
2'Tis Woman That Seduces All MankindJohn Gay
3If Any Wench Venus's Girdle WearJohn Gay
4If Love The Virgin's Heart InvadeJohn Gay
5A Maid Is Like The Golden WarJohn Gay
6Virgins Are Like The Fair Flower In It's LustreJohn Gay
7Our Polly Is A Sad Slut! Nor Heeds What We Have Taught HerJohn Gay
8Can Love Be Controul'd By AdviceJohn Gay
9O Polly, You Might Have Toy' And KistJohn Gay
10I Like A Ship In Storms, Was TostJohn Gay
11A Fox May Steel Your Hens, SirJohn Gay
12Oh, Ponder Well! Be Not SevereJohn Gay
13The Turtle Thus Plaintive CryingJohn Gay
14Pretty Polly, SayJohn Gay
15My Heart Was So FreeJohn Gay
16Were I Laid On Greenland's CoastJohn Gay
17O What Pain It Is To PartJohn Gay
18The Miser Thus A Shilling SeesJohn Gay
19Fill Ev'ry Glass, For Wine Inspires UsJohn Gay
20Let Us Take The RoadJohn Gay
21If The Heart Of A Man Is Deprest With CaresJohn Gay
22Youth's The Season Made For JoysJohn Gay
23Before The Barn-Door CrowingJohn Gay
24The Gamesters And Lawyer Are Jugglers AlikeJohn Gay
25At The Tree I Shall Suffer With PleasureJohn Gay
26Man May Escape From Rope And GunJohn Gay
27Thus When A Good Huswife Sees A RatJohn Gay
28How Cruel Are The TraytorsJohn Gay
29The First Time At The Looking-GlassJohn Gay
30When You Censure The AgeJohn Gay
31Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?John Gay
32You'll Think, E'er Many Days EnsueJohn Gay
33If You At An Office Solite Your DueJohn Gay
34Thus When The Swallo, Seeking PreyJohn Gay
35How Happy Could I Be With HerJohn Gay
36I'm BubbledJohn Gay
37 Cease Your FunningJohn Gay
38 Why How Now, Madam FlirtJohn Gay
39 No Power On Earth Can E'er DivideJohn Gay
40 I Like The Fox Shall GrieveJohn Gay
41 When Young At The Bar You First Taught Me To ScoreJohn Gay
42 My Love Is All Madness And FollyJohn Gay
43 The Gamesters United In Friendship Are FoundJohn Gay
44 The Modes Of The Court So Common Are GrownJohn Gay
45 What Gudgeons Are We Men!John Gay
46 In The Day Of My Youth I Could Bill Like A DoveJohn Gay
47 I'm Like A Skiff On The Ocean TostJohn Gay
48 When A Wife In Her PoutJohn Gay
49 A Curse Attends That Woman's LoveJohn Gay
50 Among The Men, Coquets We FindJohn Gay
51 Come Sweet LassJohn Gay
52 Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your EyesJohn Gay
53 Which Way Shall I Turn Me - How Can I Decide?John Gay
54 When My Hero In Court AppearsJohn Gay
55 When He Hold Up His Hands Arraign'd For His LifeJohn Gay
56 Our Selves, Like The Great, To Secure A RetreatJohn Gay
57 The Charge Is Prepar'd; The Lawyers Are MetJohn Gay
58 O Cruel, Cruel Cruel CaseJohn Gay
59 Of All The Friend In Time Of GriefJohn Gay
60 Since I Must SwingJohn Gay
61 But Know Again My Spirits SinkJohn Gay
62 But Valour The Strong GrowsJohn Gay
63 If Thus - A Man Can DieJohn Gay
64 So I Drink Off This BumperJohn Gay
65 But Can I Leave My Pretty HussiesJohn Gay
66 Their Eyes, Their Lips, Their BussesJohn Gay
67 Since Laws Were Made For Ev'ry DegreeJohn Gay
68 Would I Might Be Hang'dJohn Gay
69 Thus I Stand Lke The Turk, With His Doxies AroundJohn Gay

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