John Gay: The Beggar's Opera
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LABEL
Pearl
RELEASE DATE
April 26, 2005
DURATION
01:18:36
ALBUM ARTIST
Benjamin Britten
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ALBUM ARTISTS
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Anne Sharp
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Benjamin Britten
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Catherine Lawson
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Denis Dowling
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Elisabeth Parry
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English Opera Group Orchestra
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Flora Nielsen
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George James
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Gladys Parr
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Jennifer Vyvyan
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John Gay
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John Highcock
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Lesley Duff
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Lily Kettlewell
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Max Worthley
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Mildred Watson
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Nancy Evans
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Norman Lumsden
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Norman Platt
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Otakar Kraus
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Peter Pears
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Rose Hill
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Roy Ashton
Album TRACKS
DISC 1
1
John Gay
The Beggar's Opera
Act 1. Overture and introduction
4:36
2
Act 1. Through all the employments of life
1:33
3
Act 1. If any wench Venus' girdle wear
:42
4
Act 1. If love the Virgin's heart invade
1:19
5
Act 1. A Maid is like the golden ore
1:37
6
Act 1. Virgins are like the fair flowers
1:39
7
Act 1. Our Polly Is a sad slut
:41
8
Act 1. Can Love be controll'd by advice
1:28
9
Act 1. O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed
1:51
10
Act 1. O ponder well
:56
11
Act 1. The turtle thus with plaintive crying / Melodrama. Now I am a wretch indeed
3:27
12
Act 1. Pretty Polly, say
1:14
13
Act 1. My heart was so free
:48
14
Act 1. Were I laid on Greenland's coast
1:39
15
Act 1. Oh, what pain it is to part
1:19
16
Act 1. The miser thus a shilling sees
2:29
17
Act 2. Fill every glass
1:30
18
Act 2. Let us take the road
2:00
19
Act 2. If the heart of a Man
2:34
20
Act 2. Youth's the season
1:29
21
Act 2. Before the Barn-door crowing
:45
22
Act 2. At the Tree I shall suffer with pleasure
1:09
23
Act 2. Man may escape from rope and gun
2:29
24
Act 2. Thus when the good house-wife
:40
25
Act 2. How cruel are the traitors
:43
26
Act 2. The first time at the looking-glass
:54
27
Act 2. Is then his fate decreed sir?
1:45
28
Act 2. Thus when the swallow
1:44
29
Act 2. How happy could I be with either / I'm bubbled, I'm bubbled
1:04
30
Act 2. Cease your funning
2:41
31
Act 2. Why, how now, Madam Flirt?
:48
32
Act 2. Power on earth
1:53
33
Act 3. Ungrateful Macheath... My Love is all Madness and Folly
:51
34
Act 3. Thus gamesters united in Friendship are found
2:11
35
Act 3. What gudgions are we men
1:27
36
Act 3. In the days of my youth
1:32
37
Act 3. I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed
:47
38
Act 3. A curse attends the woman's love
1:12
39
Act 3. Among the men, coquettes we find
1:02
40
Act 3. Come sweet lass
:59
41
Act 3. Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes
1:18
42
Act 3. Which way shall I turn me
:52
43
Act 3. When my hero in court appears
1:26
44
Act 3. When he holds up his hand
1:29
45
Act 3. Ourselves like the great
:40
46
Act 3. The charge is prepared
2:24
47
Act 3. Scena. O cruel, cruel case! / But now again my spirits sink / Since Laws were made for every
5:12
48
Act 3. Would I might be hanged
2:01
49
Act 3. Thus I stand like the Turk
1:47
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