The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow) (disc 1)
Photography: Sarah AinsliePhotography: Clive Barda
Photography: Terry O’Neill
Photography: Naomi Schillinger
Producer: Mark Brown
Producer: Cecile Kelly
Producer: Edward Perry
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Disc1
| 1 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" (Beggar, Player) | John Gay | 1:57 |
| 2 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue / Overture | John Gay | 3:13 |
| 3 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Through all the employments of life" (Peachum) | John Gay | 0:59 |
| 4 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue "Sir, Black Moll hath sent word" (Filch, Peachum) | John Gay | 1:30 |
| 5 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "'Tis woman that seduces all mankind" (Filch, Peachum) | John Gay | 1:43 |
| 6 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "But 'tis now high time to look about me" (Peachum) | John Gay | 2:05 |
| 7 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "What of Bob Booty, husband?" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum) | John Gay | 0:35 |
| 8 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air "If any wench Venus's girdle wear" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum) | John Gay | 3:45 |
| 9 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "If love the virgin's heart invade" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum) | John Gay | 3:01 |
| 10 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Never was a man more out the way in an argument" (Mrs Peachum) | John Gay | 0:23 |
| 11 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A maid is like the golden ore" (Mrs Peachum) | John Gay | 0:42 |
| 12 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Come hither, Filch" (Mrs Peachum, Filch) | John Gay | 2:17 |
| 13 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "I know as well as any of the fine ladies" (Polly) | John Gay | 0:31 |
| 14 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre" (Polly, Peachum) | John Gay | 2:01 |
| 15 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Our Poly is a sad slut!" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly) | John Gay | 2:35 |
| 16 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Can love be control'd by advice?" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum) | John Gay | 2:17 |
| 17 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed" (Mrs Peachum, Polly) | John Gay | 1:41 |
| 18 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "I like a ship in storms was tossed" (Polly, Peachum) | John Gay | 1:14 |
| 19 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Dear wife, be a little pacified" (Peachum, Mrs Peachum) | John Gay | 0:53 |
| 20 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A fox may steal your hens, sir" (Peachum) | John Gay | 1:06 |
| 21 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "'Twas only Nimming Ned" (Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum) | John Gay | 1:49 |
| 22 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Oh, ponder well! be not severe" (Polly, Mrs Peachum) | John Gay | 1:19 |
| 23 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The turtle thus with plaintive crying" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum) | John Gay | 1:44 |
| 24 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "The thing, husband, must and shall be done" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum) | John Gay | 0:49 |
| 25 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Now I'm a wretch" (Polly) | John Gay | 1:34 |
| 26 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Pretty Polly, say" (Macheath, Polly) | John Gay | 1:14 |
| 27 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "My heart was so free" (Macheath, Polly) | John Gay | 1:10 |
| 28 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" (Macheath, Polly) | John Gay | 1:13 |
| 29 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O what pain it is to part!" (Polly, Macheath) | John Gay | 2:50 |
| 30 | The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The miser thus a shilling sees" (Macheath, Polly) | John Gay | 1:10 |
| 31 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "But pr'ythee, Matt, what is become of thy brother Tom?" (Ben, Matt, Jemmy, Jack, Wat, Robin, Ned, Harry) | John Gay | 1:49 |
| 32 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us" (Matt, company) | John Gay | 0:54 |
| 33 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Gentlemen, well met" (Macheath, Matt) | John Gay | 2:22 |
| 34 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Let us take the road" (Matt) | John Gay | 1:46 |
| 35 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "What a fool is a fond wench!" (Macheath) | John Gay | 0:32 |
| 36 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "If the heart of a man is deprest with cares" (Macheath, Drawer) | John Gay | 2:25 |
| 37 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome" (Macheath) | John Gay | 2:18 |
| 38 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Youth's the season made for joys" (Macheath, Jenny, Coaxer, Vixen, Brazen) | John Gay | 3:29 |
| 39 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Before the barn door crowing" (Jenny, Macheath, Trull, Tawdry, Slammekin, Vixen) | John Gay | 1:51 |
| 40 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" (Jenny, Tawdry, Macheath) | John Gay | 1:17 |
| 41 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "I seize you, sir, as my prisoner" (Peachum, Macheath) | John Gay | 0:43 |
| 42 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure" (Macheath, Peachum) | John Gay | 0:36 |
| 43 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Look ye, Mrs Jenny" (Vixen, Coaxer, Slammekin, Trull, Jenny) | John Gay | 0:58 |
| 44 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Noble Captain, you are welcome" (Lockit, Macheath) | John Gay | 1:32 |
| 45 | The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Man may escape from rope and gun" (Macheath) | John Gay | 1:46 |