Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera

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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

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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

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"Through All the Employments Of Life"

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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"

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

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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"

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"My Heart Was So Free"

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"Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast"

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"O! What Pain It Is To Part!"

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"The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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

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"Ungrateful Macheath!"

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"Thus Gamesters United In Friendship"

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

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"And Those Two Good Old Friends"

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

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"In the Days Of My Youth"

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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"

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

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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"

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

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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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