The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera

~ Release by John Gay, Benjamin Britten; Philip Langridge, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, John Rawnsley, Yvonne Kenny, Nuala Willis, Christopher Gillett, Steuart Bedford (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

1▼CD
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1The Beggar's Opera: Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry"
Benjamin Britten0:55
2The Beggar's Opera: Introduction, Overture
Benjamin Britten4:30
3The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 1 "Through all the employments of life"
Benjamin Britten1:56
4The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 2 "'Tis woman seduces all mankind"
Benjamin Britten2:08
5The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, Women are bitter bad judges... / no. 3 "If any wench Venus' girdle wear"
Benjamin Britten1:34
6The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 4 "If Love the virgin's heart invade"
Benjamin Britten2:06
7The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 5 "A Maid is like the golden ore"
Benjamin Britten1:25
8The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "I know as well as any of the fine ladies..." / no. 6 "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre"
Benjamin Britten2:27
9The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 7 "Our Polly is a sad slut!"
Benjamin Britten1:14
10The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 8 "Can love be controlled by advice?"
Benjamin Britten1:14
11The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "The girl shows such a readiness..." / no. 9 "O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed""
Benjamin Britten2:35
12The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 10 "I, like a ship in storms, was tossed"
Benjamin Britten0:50
13The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 11 "A fox may steal your hens, sir"
Benjamin Britten1:33
14The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 12 "O ponder well, be not severe" / no. 13 "The turtle thus with plaintive crying"
Benjamin Britten2:44
15The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 14 (Melodrama) "Now I am a wretch indeed!" / "Pretty Polly say"
Benjamin Britten2:57
16The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 15 "My heart was so free"
Benjamin Britten0:32
17The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 16 "Were I laid on Greenland's coast"
Benjamin Britten1:56
18The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 17 "O! what pain it is to part!"
Benjamin Britten1:00
19The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 18 "The miser thus a shilling sees"
Benjamin Britten2:55
20The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "And now our scene changes..." / no. 19 "Fill ev'ry glass"
Benjamin Britten1:58
21The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Success attend you!" / no. 20 "Let us take the road"
Benjamin Britten1:38
22The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 21 "If the heart of a man is depressed with cares"
Benjamin Britten2:14
23The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you're welcome!" / no. 22 "Youth's the season made for joys"
Benjamin Britten4:21
24The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "It is your own choice..." / no. 23 "Before the barn-door crowing"
Benjamin Britten1:00
25The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "But to be sure, sir..." / no. 24 "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" / no. 25 "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure"
Benjamin Britten2:26
2▶CD

Credits

Release

ASIN:UK: B000068QS3 [info]