Quantity Deal,Britten: Selections from The Beggar's Opera

Contents

• Tis woman that seduces all mankind (tenor)
• If love the virgin's heart invade (mezzo-soprano)
• Virgins are like the fair flower (mezzo-soprano)
• I, like a ship in storms, was tossed (mezzo-soprano)
• A fox may steal your hens, Sir (duet for mezzo-soprano and bass)
• The miser thus a shilling sees (duet for mezzo-soprano and tenor)
• If the heart of a man is depressed with cares (tenor)
• Man may escape from rope and gun (tenor)
• Thus when a good housewife sees a rat/How cruel are the traytors (soprano)
• Why how now, Madam Flirt! (duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano)
• When young at the bar/Ungrateful Macheath! (soprano)
• Thus gamesters united in friendship (baritone)
• I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed (soprano)
• O cruel, cruel case! (tenor)