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Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle, Miranda Westcott, Bernadette Lord, Siobháin Gibson, Clare McCaldin & Alison Place

The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: It is Your Own Choice - Before the Barn-door Crowing (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky Tawdry)

Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle, Miranda Westcott, Bernadette Lord, Siobháin Gibson, Clare McCaldin & Alison Place

Britten: The Beggar's Opera

1 MINUTE AND 33 SECONDS • OCT 01 2009

Album tracklist

1
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Introduction: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry (Beggar)
01:18
2
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43: Overture
04:25
3
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Through All the Employments of Life (Peachum)
01:19
4
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Sir, Black Moll Hath Sent Word (Flich, Peachum)
00:43
5
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind (Filch, Peachum)
01:17
6
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But It is Now High Time to Look About Me (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)
01:13
7
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Women Indeed Are Bitter Bad Judges … Ev'ry Man Handsom Who is Going to the Camp - If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear (Mrs. Peachum)
00:53
8
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Was Captain Macheath Here This Morning? (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)
00:55
9
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)
01:53
10
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A Maid is Like the Golden Ore (Mrs. Peachum)
00:29
11
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Come Hither, Filch (Mrs. Peachum, Filch)
00:59
12
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I Know as Well as Any of the Fine Ladies - Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre (Polly, Peachum)
02:23
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Our Polly is a Sad Slut! (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum, Polly, Omnes)
01:20
14
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Can Love Be Controlled by Advice? (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)
01:18
15
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Girl Shows Such a Readiness - O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Omnes)
02:18
16
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)
00:53
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum, Polly)
01:46
18
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O Ponder Well! Be Not Severe (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)
00:49
19
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying, Her Lover Dying (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)
01:52
20
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now I'm a Wretch Indeed! (Polly, Macheath, Omnes)
03:03
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: My Heart Was So Free (Macheath, Polly)
00:48
22
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast (Macheath, Polly, Omnes)
01:59
23
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O! What Pain It is to Part! (Polly, Macheath)
00:56
24
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees (Macheath, Polly)
02:26
25
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But Pr'thee, Mat, What is Become of Thy Brother Tom? (Mat of the Mint, Jemmy Twitcher, Nimming Ned, Harry Paddington, Wat Dreary)
00:42
26
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Fill Ev'ry Glass, for Wine Inspires Us (Gentlemen of the Road)
00:49
27
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Gentlemen, Well Met (Macheath, Mat of the Mint)
00:37
28
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I Shall Wish Myself With You - Let Us Take the Road (Macheath, Harry Paddington, Gentlemen of the Road)
01:49
29
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If the Heart of a Man is Depressed With Cares (Macheath)
02:05
30
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Dear Mrs. Coaxer, You Are Welcome - Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Macheath, Ladies of the Town)
04:35
31
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now Pray, Ladies, Take Your Places (Macheath, Jenny Diver, Mrs. Coaxer)
00:54
32
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: It is Your Own Choice - Before the Barn-door Crowing (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky Tawdry)
01:33
33
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But to Be Sure, Sir - the Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Betty Doxy, Macheath, Peachum)
01:39
34
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Gentlemen, Ladies, Lodges in Newgate - Constables, Wait Upon the Captain to His Lodgings - at the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure (Peachum, Macheath)
00:47
35
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Noble Captain, You Are Welcome (Lockit, Macheath)
00:52
36
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Man May Escape From Rope and Gun (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
03:29
37
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
00:45
38
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: It is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men - How Cruel Are the Traytors (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
02:32
39
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: The First Time at the Looking Glass (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
01:14
40
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: In This Last Affair, Brother Peachum, We Are Agreed (Lockit, Peachum)
00:46
41
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Such Language, Brother, Anywhere Else - When You Censure the Age (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
01:08
42
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
01:42
43
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Though the Chaplain Was Out of the Way To-day (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Polly)
01:10
44
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When the Swallow Seeking Prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
01:55
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: If Women's Tongues Can Cease for an Answer - I Will Not! - How Happy Could I Be With Either - I'm Bubbled, Oh How I Am Troubled! (Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Polly)
01:27
46
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Cease Your Funning (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Omnes)
02:48
47
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Why How Now, Madam Flirt! (Lucy Lockit, Polly, Peachum, Lockit)
01:06
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Now Power on Earth Can E'er Divide (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes)
02:01
49
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: To Be Sure, Wench, You Must Have Been Aiding and Abetting (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
00:49
50
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
03:20
51
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ungrateful Macheath! (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
01:06
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus Gamesters United in Friendship Are Found (Lockit)
01:44
53
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Our Scene Doth Represent a Gaming House - the Modes of the Court So Common Are Grown (Beggar, Macheath, Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Omnes)ar,
02:43
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum, Mrs. Trapes)
02:15
55
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: In the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Lockit, Peachum)
02:22
56
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: In the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Beggar)
00:40
57
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear (Lucy Lockit)
01:07
58
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: I Have the Rat's-bane Ready (Lucy Lockit, Filch, Polly)
02:13
59
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: A Curse Attends a Woman's Love (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
01:38
60
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: When I Was Forced From Him (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
01:03
61
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Come, Sweet Lass (Lucy Lockit, Polly)
01:55
62
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Now Every Glimmering of Happiness is Lost (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Peachum)
01:46
63
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Which Way Shall I Turn Me, How Can I Decide? (Macheath, Polly)
00:41
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear, Dear Sir, Sink the Material Evidence (Polly)
01:53
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: How Then Can You Be a Tyrant to Me - When He Holds Up His Hand Arraigned for His Life (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
02:00
66
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ourselves, Like the Great, to Secure a Retreat (Lockit, Peachum)
00:45
67
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: We Are Ready, Sir… - … to Conduct You to the Old Bailey! - The Charge is Prepared; the Lawyers Are Met (Lockit, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes, Mrs. Peachum)
01:54
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: O Cruel, Cruel Case! (Macheath, Jailer)
05:11
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Would I Might Be Hanged! (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
01:59
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: But Surely You Don't Intend That Macheath Shall Really Be Executed? (Mat of the Mint, Beggar, Ben Budge, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Lockit, Peachum)
01:18
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus I Stand Like a Turk, With His Doxies Around (Macheath, Mrs, Peachum, Peachum, Ladies of the Town, Gentlemen of the Road, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Mrs. Trapes, Lockit)
01:54
Britten: The Beggar's Opera
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The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: It is Your Own Choice - Before the Barn-door Crowing (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky Tawdry)
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