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Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Philip Langridge (Macheath), Anne Collins (Mrs Peachum), Robert Lloyd (Peachum), Ann Murray (Mrs Peachum), John Rawnsley (Lockit), Yvonne Kenny (Lucy Lockit), Nuala Willis (Mrs Trapes), Christopher Gillett (Filch), Declan Mulholland (Beggar)

Steuart Bedford

Catalogue No: 4368502
Label: Argo
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - realised by Benjamin Britten - Prologue & Act 1

Work length38:19

$22.00

$30.00

Christopher Gillet (tenor), Anne Collins (contralto), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Declan Mulholland (speaker), Robert Lloyd (bass (vocal)), Philip Langridge (tenor)
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir
Steuart Bedford
Recorded: 1992-06-11
Recording Venue: The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk

"If Poverty Be a Title To Poetry"

Track length0:54

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Overture

Track length4:30

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"Through All the Employments Of Life"

Track length1:55

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"'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"

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"Women Are Bitter Bad Judges In These Cases...If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"

Track length1:33

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"If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"

Track length2:06

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"A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore"

Track length1:24

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"I Know As Well As Any Of the Fine Ladies...Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower In Its Lustre"

Track length2:26

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"Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"

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"Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice"

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"The Girl Shows Such a Readiness...O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"

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"I, Like a Ship In Storms, Was Tossed"

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"A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"

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"O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe...The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying"

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"Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say"

Track length2:57

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"My Heart Was So Free"

Track length0:32

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"Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast"

Track length1:56

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"O! What Pain It Is To Part!"

Track length1:00

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"The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"

Track length2:55

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"And Now Our Scene Changes...Fill Ev'ry Glass"

Track length1:57

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Gay: The Beggar's Opera - realised by Benjamin Britten / Act 2

Work length31:31

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Philip Langridge (tenor), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Declan Mulholland (speaker), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Helen Templeton (mezzo-soprano), Debbie Miles-Johnson (contralto), John Rawnsley (baritone), Robert Lloyd (bass (vocal))
The Aldeburgh Festival Choir, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
Steuart Bedford
Recorded: 1992-06-11
Recording Venue: The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk

"Success Attend You...Let Us Take the Road"

Track length1:38

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"If the Heart Of a Man Is Depressed With Cares"

Track length2:14

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"Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome...Youth's the Season Made For Joys"

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"It Is Your Own Choice...Before the Barn Door Crowing"

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"But To Be Sure...The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike...At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure"

Track length2:25

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"Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More...Man May Escape From Rope and Gun"

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"Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"

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"It Is the Pleasure Of All You Fine Men...How Cruel Are the Traitors"

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"The First Time At the Looking-Glass"

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"Fortune Be With You, Lucy"

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"Such Language, Brother! ...When You Censure the Age"

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"Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?"

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"O Macheath! I Will Stay With Thee Till Death...Thus When the Swallow"

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"Shall I Not Claim My Own?...How Happy Could I Be With Either"

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"Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself!...Cease Your Funning"

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"Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"

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"No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide"

Track length1:49

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Gay: The Beggar's Opera - realised by Benjamin Britten / Act 3

Work length38:05

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Yvonne Kenny (soprano), John Rawnsley (baritone), Philip Langridge (tenor), Declan Mulholland (speaker), Nuala Willis (mezzo-soprano), Robert Lloyd (bass (vocal)), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir
Steuart Bedford
Recorded: 1992-06-11
Recording Venue: The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk

"But All Scores Have a Reckoning"

Track length0:44

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"Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education...When Young At the Bar"

Track length2:53

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"Ungrateful Macheath!"

Track length1:26

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"Thus Gamesters United In Friendship"

Track length1:38

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"And Macheath, At Liberty and At Large...The Modes Of the Court"

Track length2:47

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"And Those Two Good Old Friends"

Track length0:22

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"Bring Us Then More Liquor!...What Gudgeons Are We Men"

Track length1:38

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"In the Days Of My Youth"

Track length2:31

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"Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear...I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed"

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"A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"

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"But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable Of It...Among the Men Coquets We Find"

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"Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"

Track length1:06

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"What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again In Custody!...Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"

Track length1:41

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"Which Way Shall I Turn Me"

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"Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence...When My Hero In Court Appears"

Track length1:48

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"Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened...When He Holds Up His Hand"

Track length1:57

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"Ourselves, Like the Great"

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"We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You To the Old Bailey...The Charge Is Prepared"

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"O Cruel, Cruel Case"

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"Would I Might Be Hanged!"

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"Thus I Stand Like the Turk"

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Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera

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