The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera

The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera

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Disc1

1 The Beggar's Opera: Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" Benjamin Britten 0:55
2 The Beggar's Opera: Introduction, Overture Benjamin Britten 4:30
3 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 1 "Through all the employments of life" Benjamin Britten 1:56
4 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 2 "'Tis woman seduces all mankind" Benjamin Britten 2:08
5 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, Women are bitter bad judges... / no. 3 "If any wench Venus' girdle wear" Benjamin Britten 1:34
6 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 4 "If Love the virgin's heart invade" Benjamin Britten 2:06
7 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 5 "A Maid is like the golden ore" Benjamin Britten 1:25
8 The 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 Britten 2:37
9 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 7 "Our Polly is a sad slut!" Benjamin Britten 1:14
10 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 8 "Can love be controlled by advice?" Benjamin Britten 1:14
11 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "The girl shows such a readiness..." / no. 9 "O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed"" Benjamin Britten 2:35
12 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 10 "I, like a ship in storms, was tossed" Benjamin Britten 0:50
13 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 11 "A fox may steal your hens, sir" Benjamin Britten 1:33
14 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 12 "O ponder well, be not severe" / no. 13 "The turtle thus with plaintive crying" Benjamin Britten 2:44
15 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 14 (Melodrama) "Now I am a wretch indeed!" / "Pretty Polly say" Benjamin Britten 2:57
16 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 15 "My heart was so free" Benjamin Britten 0:32
17 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 16 "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" Benjamin Britten 1:56
18 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 17 "O! what pain it is to part!" Benjamin Britten 1:00
19 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 18 "The miser thus a shilling sees" Benjamin Britten 2:54
20 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "And now our scene changes..." / no. 19 "Fill ev'ry glass" Benjamin Britten 1:58
21 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Success attend you!" / no. 20 "Let us take the road" Benjamin Britten 1:38
22 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 21 "If the heart of a man is depressed with cares" Benjamin Britten 2:14
23 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you're welcome!" / no. 22 "Youth's the season made for joys" Benjamin Britten 4:21
24 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "It is your own choice..." / no. 23 "Before the barn-door crowing" Benjamin Britten 1:00
25 The 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 Britten 2:26

    Disc2

    1 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Noble Captain, you are welcome once more" / no. 26 "Man may escape from rope and gun" Benjamin Britten 3:50
    2 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 27 "Thus when a good woman sees a rat" Benjamin Britten 0:44
    3 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "It is the pleasure of all you fine men..." / no. 28 "How cruel are the traitors" Benjamin Britten 1:55
    4 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 29 "The first time at the looking-glass" Benjamin Britten 1:06
    5 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Fortune, be with you Lucy" Benjamin Britten 0:29
    6 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Such language, brother!" / no. 30 "When you can censure the age" Benjamin Britten 0:47
    7 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 31 "Is then his fate decreed, sir?" Benjamin Britten 2:18
    8 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "O Macheath! I will stay with thee till death..." / no. 32 "Thus when the swallow" Benjamin Britten 1:48
    9 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Shall I not claim my own?" / no. 33 "How happy I could be with either" Benjamin Britten 1:12
    10 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself" / no. 34 "Cease your funning" Benjamin Britten 3:03
    11 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 35 "Why how now, Madam Flirt!" Benjamin Britten 0:52
    12 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 36 "No power on earth can e'er divide" Benjamin Britten 1:49
    13 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But all scores have a reckoning" Benjamin Britten 0:44
    14 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear sir, mention not my education..." / no. 37 "When young at the bar" Benjamin Britten 2:53
    15 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 38 "Ungrateful Macheath!" Benjamin Britten 1:26
    16 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 39 "Thus gamesters united in friendship" Benjamin Britten 1:38
    17 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And Macheath, at liberty and at large..." / no. 40 "The modes of the Court" Benjamin Britten 2:47
    18 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And those two good old friends" Benjamin Britten 0:22
    19 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Bring us then more liquor!" / no. 41 "What Gudgeons are we men!" Benjamin Britten 1:38
    20 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 42 "In the days of my youth" Benjamin Britten 2:31
    21 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Jealously, rage, love and fear..." / no. 43 "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed" Benjamin Britten 2:31
    22 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 44 "A curse attends a woman's love" Benjamin Britten 1:29
    23 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But perhaps he hath a heart not capable of it" / no. 45 "Among the men coquets we find" Benjamin Britten 0:38
    24 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 46 "Come, sweet lass" Benjamin Britten 1:06
    25 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "What do I see! Oh! Macheath again in custody!!" / no. 47 "Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes" Benjamin Britten 1:41
    26 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 48 "Which way shall I turn me" Benjamin Britten 0:39
    27 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear, dear father, sink the evidence..." / no. 49 "When my hero in court appears" Benjamin Britten 1:48
    28 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Oh sir, if Peachum's heart is hardened..." / no. 50 "When he holds up his hand" Benjamin Britten 1:57
    29 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 51 "Ourselves, like the great" Benjamin Britten 0:38
    30 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "We are ready, sir, to conduct you to the Old Bailey!" / no. 52 "The charge is prepared" Benjamin Britten 1:58
    31 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 53 "O cruel, cruel case!" Benjamin Britten 5:14
    32 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 54 "Would I might be hanged!" Benjamin Britten 2:36
    33 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 55 "Thus I stand like the Turk" Benjamin Britten 1:51