John Gay

The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)

Release date April, 1991

Tracklist

1
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" (Beggar, Player)
1:57
1:57
2
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue / Overture
3:13
3:13
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Through all the employments of life" (Peachum)
0:59
0:59
4
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue "Sir, Black Moll hath sent word" (Filch, Peachum)
1:30
1:30
5
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "'Tis woman that seduces all mankind" (Filch, Peachum)
1:43
1:43
6
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "But 'tis now high time to look about me" (Peachum)
2:05
2:05
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "What of Bob Booty, husband?" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
0:35
0:35
8
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air "If any wench Venus's girdle wear" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
3:45
3:45
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "If love the virgin's heart invade" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
3:01
3:01
10
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Never was a man more out the way in an argument" (Mrs Peachum)
0:23
0:23
11
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A maid is like the golden ore" (Mrs Peachum)
0:42
0:42
12
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Come hither, Filch" (Mrs Peachum, Filch)
2:17
2:17
13
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "I know as well as any of the fine ladies" (Polly)
0:31
0:31
14
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre" (Polly, Peachum)
2:01
2:01
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Our Poly is a sad slut!" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly)
2:35
2:35
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Can love be control'd by advice?" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
2:17
2:17
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed" (Mrs Peachum, Polly)
1:41
1:41
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "I like a ship in storms was tossed" (Polly, Peachum)
1:14
1:14
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Dear wife, be a little pacified" (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
0:53
0:53
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A fox may steal your hens, sir" (Peachum)
1:06
1:06
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "'Twas only Nimming Ned" (Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
1:49
1:49
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Oh, ponder well! be not severe" (Polly, Mrs Peachum)
1:19
1:19
23
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The turtle thus with plaintive crying" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
1:44
1:44
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "The thing, husband, must and shall be done" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
0:49
0:49
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Now I'm a wretch" (Polly)
1:34
1:34
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Pretty Polly, say" (Macheath, Polly)
1:14
1:14
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "My heart was so free" (Macheath, Polly)
1:10
1:10
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" (Macheath, Polly)
1:13
1:13
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The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O what pain it is to part!" (Polly, Macheath)
2:50
2:50
30
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The miser thus a shilling sees" (Macheath, Polly)
1:10
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)
1:49
1:49
32
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us" (Matt, company)
0:54
0:54
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Gentlemen, well met" (Macheath, Matt)
2:22
2:22
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Let us take the road" (Matt)
1:46
1:46
35
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "What a fool is a fond wench!" (Macheath)
0:32
0:32
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "If the heart of a man is deprest with cares" (Macheath, Drawer)
2:25
2:25
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome" (Macheath)
2:18
2:18
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Youth's the season made for joys" (Macheath, Jenny, Coaxer, Vixen, Brazen)
3:29
3:29
39
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Before the barn door crowing" (Jenny, Macheath, Trull, Tawdry, Slammekin, Vixen)
1:51
1:51
40
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" (Jenny, Tawdry, Macheath)
1:17
1:17
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "I seize you, sir, as my prisoner" (Peachum, Macheath)
0:43
0:43
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure" (Macheath, Peachum)
0:36
0:36
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Look ye, Mrs Jenny" (Vixen, Coaxer, Slammekin, Trull, Jenny)
0:58
0:58
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Noble Captain, you are welcome" (Lockit, Macheath)
1:32
1:32
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Man may escape from rope and gun" (Macheath)
1:46
1:46
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: You Base Man, You!
0:17
0:17
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 27: Thus When A Good Huswife Sees A Rat (A Lovely Lass To A Friar Came)
0:53
0:53
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 28: How Cruel Are The Traitors ('Twas When The Sea Was Roaring)
3:05
3:05
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 29: The First Time At The Looking-Glass (The Sun Has Loos'd His Weary Teams)
1:09
1:09
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: In This Last Affair, Brother Peachum
1:01
1:01
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 30: When You Censure the Age (How Happy Are We)
2:37
2:37
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Whence Come You, Hussy?
0:35
0:35
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 31: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Of A Noble Race Was Shenkin)
0:13
0:13
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 32: You'll Think E'er Many Days Ensue
2:15
2:15
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Though The Ordinary Was Out Of The Way Today
0:35
0:35
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 33: If You At An Office Solicit Your Due (London Ladies)
0:41
0:41
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Where Is My Dear Husband?
0:52
0:52
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 34: Thus When The Swallow Seeking Prey (All In The Downs)
2:19
2:19
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 35: How Happy Could I Be With Either (Have You Heard Of A Frolicksome Ditty)
0:50
0:50
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 36: I'm Bubbled (Irish Trot)
1:00
1:00
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 37: Cease Your Funning
1:34
1:34
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 38: Why How Now, Madam Flirt? (Good-morrow, Gossip)
0:38
0:38
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Where's My Wench?
0:27
0:27
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 39: No Power On Earth Can E'er Divide (Irish Howl)
1:18
1:18
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: I Am Naturally Compassionate, Wife
1:33
1:33
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The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 40: I Like The Fox Shall Grieve (The Lass Of Patie's Mill)
2:01
2:01
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: To Be Sure, Wench
1:03
1:03
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 41: When Young At The Bar You First Taught Me To Score (If Love's A Sweet Passion)
2:42
2:42
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 42: My Love Is All Madness & Folly (South Sea Ballad)
1:23
1:23
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Peachum Then Intends To Outwit Me
0:56
0:56
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 43: Thus Gamesters United In Friendship Are Found (Packington's Pound)
1:11
1:11
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Why, Boy, Thou Lookest As If Thou Wert Half Starv'd
1:14
1:14
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: I Am Sorry, Gentlemen
0:17
0:17
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 44: The Modes Of The Court So Common Are Grown (Lillibullero)
2:40
2:40
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum
1:29
1:29
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 45: What Gudgeons Are We Men! (Down In The North Country)
1:20
1:20
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Dear Mrs Dye, Your Servant
0:28
0:28
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 46: In The Days Of My Youth (A Shepherd Kept Sheep)
4:47
4:47
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Jealousy, Rage, Love & Fear
0:09
0:09
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 47: I'm Like A Skiff On The Ocean Tossed (One Evening, Having Lost My Way)
1:15
1:15
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Dear Madam, Your Servant
0:17
0:17
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 48: When A Wife's In Her Pout (Now Roger, I'll Tell Thee, Because Thou'rt My Son)
2:08
2:08
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 49: A Curse Attends That Woman's Love (O Bessy Bell)
1:23
1:23
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 50: Among The Men, Coquets We Find (Would Fate To Me Belinda Give)
1:29
1:29
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 51: Come, Sweet Lass (Come, Sweet Lass)
1:00
1:00
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: All This Wheedling Of Lucy Cannot Be For Nothing
0:20
0:20
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Come, Miss Polly
0:51
0:51
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Set Your Heart To Rest, Captain
0:32
0:32
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 52: Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes(The Last Time I Went O'er The Moor)
1:45
1:45
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 53: Which Way Shall I Turn Me? (Tom Tinker's My True Love)
0:59
0:59
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 54: When My Hero In Court Appears (I Am A Poor Shepherd Undone)
1:14
1:14
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 55: When He Holds Up His Hand (Ianthe The Lovely)
1:40
1:40
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 56: Our Selves, Like The Great, To Secure A Retreat (A Cobbler There Was)
1:27
1:27
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 57: The Charge Is Prepar'd (Bonny Dundee)
1:20
1:20
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Follow Them, Filch, To The Court
1:07
1:07
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 58: O Cruel, Cruel, Cruel Case! (Happy Groves)
3:18
3:18
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 67: Since Laws Were Made Tor Ev'ry Degree (Green Sleeves)
1:02
1:02
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: For My Having Broke Prison
1:02
1:02
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: My Dear Lucy, My Dear Polly
0:30
0:30
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 68: Would I Might Be Hang'd! (All You That Must Take A Leap)
1:49
1:49
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: But, Honest Friend
1:21
1:21
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: So, It Seems, I Am Not Left To My Choice
0:38
0:38
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The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 69: Thus I Stand Like The Turk (Lumps Of Pudding)
1:40
1:40