Title:	Beggar's Opera
Genre:	Classical, Opera/Operetta
Composers:	Benjamin Britten
Conductors:	Christian Curnyn
Orchestras:	City of London Sinfonia
Performers:	Aidan Smith, Alison Place, Ben Thapa, Bernadette Lord, Bryn Evans, Clare McCaldin, Donald Maxwell, Frances McCafferty, Jeremy White, Katherine Paterson, Kathryn Jenkin, Katy Batho, Leah-Marian Jones, Mark Saberton, Miranda Westcott, Paul Hopwood, Robert Anthony Gardiner, Sarah Fox, Siobh in Gibson, Siobháin Gibson, Sirena Tocco, Susan Bickley, Thomas Barnard, Thomas Randle, Tom Randle
Label:	Chandos
Number of Discs:	2
Release Date:	10/27/2009

Product Type:	CD
UPC:	095115154823
Item #:	NAX515482

Tracks

- Disc 1 -
1 Introduction: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry (Beggar)
2 Overture
3 Act I: Through All the Employments of Life (Peachum)
4 Act I: Sir, Black Moll Hath Sent Word (Filch, Peachum)
5 Act I: 'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind (Filch, Peachum)
6 Act I: But It Is Now High Time to Look About Me (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)
7 Act I: Women Indeed Are Bitter Bad Judges - ?Ev'ry Man Handsome Who Is Going to the Camp - If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear (MRS. Peachum)
8 Act I: Was Captain Macheath Here This Morning? (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)
9 Act I: If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade (MRS. Peachum, Peachum)
10 Act I: A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore (MRS. Peachum)
11 Act I: Come Hither, Filch (MRS. Peachum, Filch)
12 Act I: I Know As Well As Any of the Fine Ladies (Polly) - Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in It's Lustre (Polly, Peachum)
13 Act I: Our Polly Is a Sad Slut! (MRS. Peachum, Omnes, Peachum, Polly)
14 Act I: Can Love Be Controlled By Advice? (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)
15 Act I: The Girl Shows Such a Readiness (MRS. Peachum) - O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed (MRS. Peachum, Polly, Omnes, Peachum)
16 Act I: I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)
17 Act I: A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum, Polly)
18 Act I: O Ponder Well! Be Not Severe (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)
19 Act I: The Turtle Thus with Plaintive Crying, Her Lover Dying (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)
20 Act I: Now I'm a Wretch Indeed! (Polly, Omnes, Macheath)
21 Act I: My Heart Was So Free (Macheath, Polly)
22 Act I: Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast (Macheath, Polly, Omnes)
23 Act I: O! What Pain It Is to Part! (Polly, Macheath)
24 Act I: The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees (Macheath, Polly)
25 Act I: But Pr'thee, Mat, What Is Become of Thy Brother Tom? (Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Jemmy Twitcher, Nimming Ned, Harry Paddington, Wat Dreary)
26 Act I: Fill Ev'ry Glass, for Wine Inspires Us (Gentlemen of the Road)
27 Act I: Gentlemen, Well Met (Macheath, Mat of the Mint)
28 Act I: I Shall Wish Myself with You (Macheath) - Let Us Take the Road (Harry Paddington, Gentlemen of the Road)
29 Act I: If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares (Macheath)
30 Act I: Dear Mrs. Coaxer, You Are Welcome (Macheath) - Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Macheath, Ladies of the Town)
31 Act I: Now Pray, Ladies, Take Your Places (Macheath, Jenny Diver, Mrs. Coaxer)
32 Act I: It Is Your Own Choice (Jenny Diver) - Before the Barn-Door Crowing (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky Tawdry)
33 Act I: But to Be Sure, Sir (Jenny Diver) - the Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike (Ladies of the Town, Betty Doxy, Macheath, Peachum)
34 Act I: The Gentleman, Ladies, Lodges in Newgate - Constables, Wait Upon the Captain to His Lodgings (Peachum) - at the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure (Macheath)
- Disc 2 -
1 Act II: Noble Captain, You Are Welcome (Lockit, Macheath)
2 Act II: Man May Escape from Rope and Gun (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
3 Act II: Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
4 Act II: It Is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men (Lucy Lockit) - How Cruel Are the Traytors (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
5 Act II: The First Time at the Looking Glass (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
6 Act II: In This Last Affair, Brother Peachum, We Are Agreed (Lockit, Peachum)
7 Act II: Such Language, Brother, Anywhere Else (Lockit) - When You Censure the Age (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
8 Act II: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
9 Act II: Though the Chaplain Was Out of the Way To-Day (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Polly)
10 Act II: Thus When the Swallow Seeking Prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
11 Act II: If Women's Tongues Can Cease for An Answer (Macheath) - I Will Not! (Lucy Lockit) - How Happy Could I Be with Either (Macheath, Polly)
12 Act II: Cease Your Funning (Polly, Omnes, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
13 Act II: Why How Now, Madam Flirt! (Lucy Lockit, Polly, Peachum, Lockit)
14 Act II: No Power on Earth Can E'er Divide (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes)
15 Act III: To Be Sure, Wench, You Must Have Been Aiding and Abetting (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
16 Act III: Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
17 Act III: Ungrateful Macheath! (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
18 Act III: Thus Gamesters United in Friendship Are Found (Lockit)
19 Act III: Our Scene Doth Represent a Gaming House (Beggar) - the Modes of the Court So Common Are Grown (Macheath, Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Omnes)
20 Act III: The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum, Servant, Mrs. Trapes)
21 Act III: In the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (MRS. Trapes, Lockit, Peachum)
22 Act III: In the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (MRS. Trapes, Beggar)
23 Act III: Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear (Lucy Lockit)
24 Act III: I Have the Rat's-Bane Ready (Lucy Lockit, Filch, Polly)
25 Act III: A Curse Attends a Woman's Love (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
26 Act III: When I Was Forced from Him (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
27 Act III: Come, Sweet Lass (Lucy Lockit, Polly)
28 Act III: Now Every Glimmering of Happiness Is Lost (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Peachum)
29 Act III: Which Way Shall I Turn Me, How Can I Decide? (Macheath, Polly)
30 Act III: Dear, Dear Sir, Sink the Material Evidence (Polly)
31 Act III: How Then Can You Be a Tyrant to Me (Lucy Lockit) - When He Holds Up His Hand Arraigned for His Life (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
32 Act III: Ourselves, Like the Great, to Secure a Retreat (Lockit, Peachum)
33 Act III: We Are Ready, Sir? (Lockit) - ?To Conduct You to the Old Bailey! (Lockit, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Macheath, Peachum, Omnes)
34 Act III: O Cruel, Cruel Case! (Macheath, Jailer)
35 Act III: Would I Might Be Hanged! (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
36 Act III: But Surely You Don't Intend That Macheath Shall Really Executed? (Mat of the Mint, Beggar, Ben Budge, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Lockit, Peachum)
37 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)

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