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CD 1 |
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| 1. |
The Beggar's Opera: Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" |
0:55 |
| 2. |
The Beggar's Opera: Introduction, Overture |
4:30 |
| 3. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 1 "Through all the employments of life" |
1:56 |
| 4. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 2 "'Tis woman seduces all mankind" |
2:08 |
| 5. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, Women are bitter bad judges... / no. 3 "If any wench Venus' girdle wear" |
1:34 |
| 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" |
1:25 |
| 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" |
2:37 |
| 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?" |
1:14 |
| 11. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "The girl shows such a readiness..." / no. 9 "O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed"" |
2:35 |
| 12. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 10 "I, like a ship in storms, was tossed" |
0:50 |
| 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" |
2:54 |
| 20. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "And now our scene changes..." / no. 19 "Fill ev'ry glass" |
1:58 |
| 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" |
2:26 |
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CD 2 |
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| 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 |
