The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay, Benjamin Britten; Philip Langridge, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, John Rawnsley, Yvonne Kenny, Nuala Willis, Christopher Gillett, Steuart Bedford

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# Title Length
CD 1
1 The Beggar's Opera: Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" 0:54
2 The Beggar's Opera: Introduction, Overture 4:30
3 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 1 "Through all the employments of life" 1:55
4 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 2 "'Tis woman seduces all mankind" 2:07
5 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, Women are bitter bad judges... / no. 3 "If any wench Venus' girdle wear" 1:33
6 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 4 "If Love the virgin's heart invade" 2:06
7 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 5 "A Maid is like the golden ore" 1:24
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" 2:26
9 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 7 "Our Polly is a sad slut!" 1:14
10 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 8 "Can love be controlled by advice?" 1:13
11 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "The girl shows such a readiness..." / no. 9 "O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed"" 2:34
12 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 10 "I, like a ship in storms, was tossed" 0:49
13 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 11 "A fox may steal your hens, sir" 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" 2:44
15 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 14 (Melodrama) "Now I am a wretch indeed!" / "Pretty Polly say" 2:57
16 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 15 "My heart was so free" 0:32
17 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 16 "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" 1:56
18 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 17 "O! what pain it is to part!" 1:00
19 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 18 "The miser thus a shilling sees" 2:55
20 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "And now our scene changes..." / no. 19 "Fill ev'ry glass" 1:57
21 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Success attend you!" / no. 20 "Let us take the road" 1:38
22 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 21 "If the heart of a man is depressed with cares" 2:14
23 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you're welcome!" / no. 22 "Youth's the season made for joys" 4:21
24 The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "It is your own choice..." / no. 23 "Before the barn-door crowing" 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" 2:25
CD 2
1 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Noble Captain, you are welcome once more" / no. 26 "Man may escape from rope and gun" 3:50
2 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 27 "Thus when a good woman sees a rat" 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" 1:55
4 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 29 "The first time at the looking-glass" 1:06
5 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Fortune, be with you Lucy" 0:29
6 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Such language, brother!" / no. 30 "When you can censure the age" 0:47
7 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 31 "Is then his fate decreed, sir?" 2:18
8 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "O Macheath! I will stay with thee till death..." / no. 32 "Thus when the swallow" 1:48
9 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Shall I not claim my own?" / no. 33 "How happy I could be with either" 1:12
10 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself" / no. 34 "Cease your funning" 3:03
11 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 35 "Why how now, Madam Flirt!" 0:52
12 The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 36 "No power on earth can e'er divide" 1:49
13 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But all scores have a reckoning" 0:44
14 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear sir, mention not my education..." / no. 37 "When young at the bar" 2:53
15 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 38 "Ungrateful Macheath!" 1:26
16 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 39 "Thus gamesters united in friendship" 1:38
17 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And Macheath, at liberty and at large..." / no. 40 "The modes of the Court" 2:47
18 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And those two good old friends" 0:22
19 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Bring us then more liquor!" / no. 41 "What Gudgeons are we men!" 1:38
20 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 42 "In the days of my youth" 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" 2:31
22 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 44 "A curse attends a woman's love" 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" 0:38
24 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 46 "Come, sweet lass" 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" 1:41
26 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 48 "Which way shall I turn me" 0:39
27 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear, dear father, sink the evidence..." / no. 49 "When my hero in court appears" 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" 1:57
29 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 51 "Ourselves, like the great" 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" 1:58
31 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 53 "O cruel, cruel case!" 5:14
32 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 54 "Would I might be hanged!" 2:36
33 The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 55 "Thus I stand like the Turk" 1:51

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