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Benjamin Britten: The Beggar's Opera
ALBUM NAME
Benjamin Britten: The Beggar's Opera
Copyright
℗ 2009 Chandos
RELEASE DATE
October 5, 2009
TRACK
71
DURATION
1:57:14
ALBUM ARTIST
Album Track
 
1
The Beggar's Opera Introduction. If Poverty be a title to Poetry
The Beggar's Opera Introduction. If Poverty be a title to Poetry
 
1:17
 
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Overture -
4:24
 
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Act 1. No. 1. Through all the employments of life -
1:18
 
4
 
 
Act 1. Sir, black Moll hath sent word -
42
 
5
 
 
Act 1. No. 2. 'Tis Woman that seduces all Mankind -
1:17
 
6
 
 
Act 1. But it is now high time to look about me -
1:13
 
7
 
 
Act 1. Women indeed are bitter bad judges - / No. 3. ...ev'ry Man handsome who is going to the Camp
52
 
8
 
 
Act 1. Was Captain Macheath here this morning? -
54
 
9
 
 
Act 1. No. 4. If Love the Virgin's Heart invade -
1:52
 
10
 
 
Act 1. No. 5. A Maid is like the Golden ore -
29
 
11
 
 
Act 1. Come hither, Filch -
59
 
12
 
 
Act 1. No. 6. I know as well as any of the fine ladies - / Virgins are like the fair flower in its
2:22
 
13
 
 
Act 1. No. 7. Our Polly is a sad slut! -
1:19
 
14
 
 
Act 1. No. 8. Can Love be controlled by Advice? -
1:17
 
15
 
 
Act 1. No. 9. The girl shows such a readiness - / O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed -
2:17
 
16
 
 
Act 1. No. 10. I, like a Ship in storms, was tossed -
53
 
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Act 1. No. 11. A fox may steal your hens, Sir -
1:45
 
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Act 1. No. 12. O ponder well! be not severe -
48
 
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Act 1. No. 13. The Turtle thus with plaintive crying, her Lover dying -
1:51
 
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Act 1. No. 14. Melodrama. Now I'm a wretch indeed! -
3:2
 
21
 
 
Act 1. No. 15. My heart was so free -
48
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22
 
 
Act 1. No. 16. Were I laid on Greenland's coast -
1:59
 
23
 
 
Act 1. No. 17. O! what pain it is to part! -
55
 
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Act 1. No. 18. The Miser thus a shilling sees -
2:25
 
25
 
 
Act 1. But pr'thee, Mat, what is become of thy brother Tom -
41
 
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Act 1. No. 19. Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us -
49
 
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Act 1. Gentlemen, well met -
37
 
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Act 1. No. 20. I shall wish myself with you - / Let us take the road -
1:49
 
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Act 1. No. 21. If the heart of a man is depressed with cares -
2:5
 
30
 
 
Act 1. No. 22. Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome - / Youth's the season made for joys -
4:35
 
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Act 1. Now pray, ladies, take your places -
54
 
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Act 1. No. 23. It is your own choice - / Before the barn-door crowing -
1:32
 
33
 
 
Act 1. No. 24. But to be sure, Sir - / The Gamesters and Lawyers are jugglers alike -
1:39
 
34
 
 
Act 1. The gentleman, ladies, lodges in Newgate - / No. 25. Constables, wait upon the Captain to hi
46
 
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Act 2. Noble Captain, you are welcome -
52
 
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Act 2. No. 26. Man may escape from rope and gun -
3:28
 
37
 
 
Act 2. No. 27. Thus when a good Housewife sees a rat -
44
 
38
 
 
Act 2. No. 28. It is the pleasure of all you fine men - / How cruel are the traytors -
2:32
 
39
 
 
Act 2. No. 29. The first time at the looking glass -
1:13
 
40
 
 
Act 2. In this last affair, brother Peachum, we are agreed -
45
 
41
 
 
Act 2. No. 30. Such language, brother, anywhere else - / When you censure the age -
1:7
 
42
 
 
Act 2. No. 31. Is then his fate decreed, Sir? -
1:42
 
43
 
 
Act 2. Though the Chaplain was out of the way to-day -
1:9
 
44
 
 
Act 2. No. 32. Thus when the Swallow seeking prey -
1:54
 
45
 
 
Act 2. If women's tongues can cease for an answer - / No. 33. I will not! - / How happy could I be
1:26
 
46
 
 
Act 2. No. 34. Cease your funning -
2:48
 
47
 
 
Act 2. No. 35. Why how now, Madam Flirt! -
1:5
 
48
 
 
Act 2. No. 36. No power on earth can e'er divide
2:
 
49
 
 
Act 3. To be sure, wench, you must have been aiding and abetting -
49
 
50
 
 
Act 3. Dear Sir, mention not my education - / No. 37. When young at the bar you first taught me to
3:19
 
51
 
 
Act 3. No. 38. Ungrateful Macheath! - / My love is all madness and folly -
1:6
 
52
 
 
Act 3. No. 39. Thus Gamesters united in friendship are found -
1:43
 
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Act 3. No. 40. Our scene doth represent a Gaming House - / The modes of the Court so common are gro
2:43
 
54
 
 
Act 3. The Coronation account, brother Peachum - / No. 41. Keep a watchful eye on Polly - / What Gu
2:14
 
55
 
 
Act 3. No. 42. In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove -
2:21
 
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Act 3. No. 43a. In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove -
39
 
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Act 3. No. 43b. Jealousy, rage, love and fear - / I'm like a Skiff on the Ocean tossed -
1:7
 
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Act 3. I have the Rat's-bane ready -
2:12
 
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Act 3. No. 44. A curse attends a woman's love -
1:38
 
60
 
 
Act 3. When I was forced from him - / No. 45. But perhaps he hath a heart not capable of it - / Amo
1:2
 
61
 
 
Act 3. No. 46. Come, sweet lass -
1:55
 
62
 
 
Act 3. No. 47. Now every glimmering of happiness is lost -
1:45
 
63
 
 
Act 3. No. 48. Which way shall I turn me, how can I decide? -
40
 
64
 
 
Act 3. Dear, dear Sir, sink the material evidence - / No. 49. Polly upon her knees begs it of you -
1:53
 
65
 
 
Act 3. No. 50. How then can you be a tyrant to me - / When he holds up his hand arraigned for his l
2:
 
66
 
 
Act 3. No. 51. Ourselves, like the Great, to secure a retreat -
44
 
67
 
 
Act 3. We are ready, Sir,... - / No. 52. ...to conduct you to the Old Bailey! - / The Charge is pre
1:54
 
68
 
 
Act 3. No. 53. Scena. O cruel, cruel case! -
5:10
 
69
 
 
Act 3. No. 54. Would I might be hanged! -
1:59
 
70
 
 
Act 3. But surely you won't intend that Macheath shall really by executed? -
1:18
 
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Act 3. No. 55. Thus I stand like a Turk, with his doxies around
1:53
 
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