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No. |
Title |
Length |
| 1. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 01. Introduction. If poverty be a title to poetry (Beggar/Player) (featuring Ian Caddy, Bob Hoskins) |
1:57 |
| 2. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 02. Dialogue. Overture |
3:13 |
| 3. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 03. Air 1 'an old woman clothed in gray'. Through all the employments of life (Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels) |
0:59 |
| 4. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 04. Dialogue. Sir, Black Moll hath sent word (Filch/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Ian Honeyman) |
1:30 |
| 5. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 05. Air 2 'the bonny gray-ey'd morn' (Clarke). 'Tis woman that seduces all mankind (Filch/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Ian Honeyman) |
1:43 |
| 6. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 06. Dialogue. But 'tis now high time to look about me (Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels) |
2:05 |
| 7. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 07. Dialogue. What of Bob Booty, husband? (Mrs Peachum/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker) |
0:35 |
| 8. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 08. Air 3 'Cold and raw'. If any wench Venus's girdle wear (Mrs Peachum/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker) |
3:45 |
| 9. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 09. Air 4 'Why is your faithful slave disdain'd?' (attrib. Bononcini). If love the virgin's heart invade (Mrs Peachum/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker) |
3:01 |
| 10. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 10. Dialogue. Never was a man more out the way in an argument (Mrs Peachum) (featuring Sarah Walker) |
0:23 |
| 11. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 11. Air 5 'of all the simple things we do'. A maid is like the golden ore (Mrs Peachum) (featuring Sarah Walker) |
0:42 |
| 12. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 12. Dialogue. Come hither, Filch (Mrs Peachum/Filch) (featuring Sarah Walker, Ian Honeyman) |
2:17 |
| 13. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 13. Dialogue. I know as well as any of the fine ladies (Polly) (featuring Bronwen Mills) |
0:31 |
| 14. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 14. Air 6 'What shall I do to show how much I love her?' (Purcell). Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre (Polly/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:01 |
| 15. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 15. Air 7 'Oh London is a fine town'. Our Poly is a sad slut! (Mrs Peachum/Peachum/Polly) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:35 |
| 16. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 16. Air 8 'Grim king of the ghosts'. Can love be control'd by advice? (Polly/Mrs Peachum/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:17 |
| 17. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 17. Air 9 'O Jenny, O Jenny, where hast thou been?'. O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed (Mrs Peachum/Polly) (featuring Sarah Walker, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:41 |
| 18. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 18. Air 10 'Thomas, I cannot'. I like a ship in storms was tossed (Polly/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:14 |
| 19. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 19. Dialogue. Dear wife, be a little pacified (Peachum/Mrs Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker) |
0:53 |
| 20. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 20. Air 11 'a soldier and a sailor' (Eccles). A fox may steal your hens, sir (Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:06 |
| 21. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 21. Dialogue. 'Twas only Nimming Ned (Polly/Peachum/Mrs Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker, Bronwen Mills) |
1:49 |
| 22. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 22. Air 12 'Now ponder well, ye parents dear'. Oh, ponder well! be not severe (Polly/Mrs Peachum) (featuring Sarah Walker, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:19 |
| 23. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 23. Air 13 'Le printemps rappelle aux armes'. The turtle thus with plaintive crying (Polly/Mrs Peachum/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:44 |
| 24. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 24. Dialogue. The thing, husband, must and shall be done (Mrs Peachum/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker) |
0:49 |
| 25. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 25. Dialogue. Now I'm a wretch (Polly) (featuring Bronwen Mills) |
1:34 |
| 26. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 26. Air 14 'Pretty parrot, say' (Freeman). Pretty Polly, say (Macheath/Polly) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:14 |
| 27. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 27. Air 15 'Pray, fair one, be kind' (Leveridge). My heart was so free (Macheath/Polly) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:10 |
| 28. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 28. Air 16 'Over the hills and far away'. Were I laid on Greenland's coast (Macheath/Polly) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:13 |
| 29. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 29. Air 17 'Gin thou wert mine awn thing'. O what pain it is to part! (Polly/Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:50 |
| 30. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 30. Air 18 'O the broom'. The miser thus a shilling sees (Macheath/Polly) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:10 |
| 31. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 01. Dialogue. But pr'ythee, Matt, what is become of thy brother Tom? (Ben/Matt/Jemmy/Jack/Wat/Robin/Ned/Harry) (featuring Christopher Lemmings, René Linnenbank / Rene Linnenbank, Karl Morgan, Roger Bryson, Alasdair Baker, Timothy Taylor, Robert Torday) |
1:49 |
| 32. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 02. Air 19 'Fill ev'ry glass'. Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us (Matt/company) (featuring Jeremy Barlow, Roger Bryson) |
0:54 |
| 33. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 03. Dialogue. Gentlemen, well met (Macheath/Matt) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Roger Bryson) |
2:22 |
| 34. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 04. Air 20 'March in Rinaldo' (Handel). Let us take the road (Matt) (featuring Jeremy Barlow, Roger Bryson) |
1:46 |
| 35. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 05. Dialogue. What a fool is a fond wench! (Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson) |
0:32 |
| 36. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 06. Air 21 'Would you have a young virgin?'. If the heart of a man is deprest with cares (Macheath/Drawer) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow, Robert Torday) |
2:25 |
| 37. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 07. Dialogue. Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome (Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson) |
2:18 |
| 38. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 08. Air 22 'Cotillon'. Youth's the season made for joys (Macheath/Jenny/Coaxer/Vixen/Brazen) (featuring Catherine Wyn - Rogers, Adrian Thompson, Caroline Harrison, Claire Rutter, Jeremy Barlow) |
3:29 |
| 39. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 09. Air 23 'All in a misty morning'. Before the barn door crowing (Jenny/Macheath/Trull/Tawdry/Slammekin/Vixen) (featuring Catherine Wyn - Rogers, Adrian Thompson, Claire Rutter, Jeremy Barlow, Lucy Hayward, Jenevora Williams, Helen Lothian) |
1:51 |
| 40. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 10. Air 24 'When once I lay with another man's wife'. The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike (Jenny/Tawdry/Macheath) (featuring Catherine Wyn - Rogers, Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow, Jenevora Williams) |
1:17 |
| 41. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 11. Dialogue. I seize you, sir, as my prisoner (Peachum/Macheath) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Adrian Thompson) |
0:43 |
| 42. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 12. Air 25 'When first I laid siege to my Chloris'. At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure (Macheath/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow) |
0:36 |
| 43. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 13. Dialogue. Look ye, Mrs Jenny (Vixen/Coaxer/Slammekin/Trull/Jenny) (featuring Caroline Harrison, Claire Rutter, Lucy Hayward, Helen Lothian) |
0:58 |
| 44. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 14. Dialogue. Noble Captain, you are welcome (Lockit/Macheath) (featuring Richard Jackson, Adrian Thompson) |
1:32 |
| 45. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 15. Air 26 'Courtiers, courtiers think it no harm'. Man may escape from rope and gun (Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:46 |
| 46. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 16. Dialogue. You base man, you! (Lucy) (featuring Anne Dawson) |
0:17 |
| 47. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 17. Air 27 'a lovely lass to a friar came'. Thus when a good huswife sees a rat (Luch/Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
0:53 |
| 48. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 18. Air 28 ''Twas when the sea was roaring' (Handel). How cruel are the traitors (Lucy/Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
3:05 |
| 49. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 19. Air 29 'the sun had loos'd his weary teams'. The first time at the looking-glass (Macheath/Lucy) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:09 |
| 50. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 20. Dialogue. In this last affair, brother Peachum (Lockit/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Richard Jackson) |
1:01 |
| 51. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 21. Air 30 'How happy are we' (Barrett). When you censure the age (Lockit/Peachum) (featuring Richard Jackson, Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:37 |
| 52. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 22. Dialogue. Whence come you, hussy? (Lockit/Lucy) (featuring Richard Jackson, Anne Dawson) |
0:35 |
| 53. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 23. Air 31 'of a noble race was Shenkin'. Is then his fate decreed, sir? (Lucy/Lockit) (featuring Richard Jackson, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
0:13 |
| 54. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 24. Air 32. You'll think e'er many days ensue (Lockit) (featuring Richard Jackson, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:15 |
| 55. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 25. Dialogue. Though the ordinary was out of the way today (Lucy/Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Anne Dawson) |
0:35 |
| 56. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 26. Air 33 'London ladies'. If you at an office solicit your due (Macheath/Lucy) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
0:41 |
| 57. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 27. Dialogue. Where is my dear husband? (Polly/Macheath/Lucy) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson) |
0:52 |
| 58. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 28. Air 34 'All in the Downs' (Sandoni). Thus when the swallow, seeking prey (Polly/Macheath/Lucy) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:19 |
| 59. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 29. Air 35 'Have you heard of a frolicksome ditty?'. How happy could I be with either (Macheath/Polly/Lucy) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
0:50 |
| 60. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 30. Air 36 'Irish trot'. I'm bubbled (Polly/Lucy/Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:00 |
| 61. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 31. Air 37. Cease your funning (Polly/Macheath/Lucy) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:34 |
| 62. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 32. Air 38 'Good-morrow, gossip'. Why how now, Madam Flirt? (Lucy/Polly) (featuring Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
0:38 |
| 63. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 33. Dialogue. Where's my wench? (Peachum/Polly) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Bronwen Mills) |
0:27 |
| 64. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 34. Air 39 'Irish howl' (Vanbrughe). No power on earth can e'er divide (Polly) (featuring Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:18 |
| 65. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 35. Dialogue. I am naturally compassionate, wife (Macheath/Lucy) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Anne Dawson) |
1:33 |
| 66. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 36. Air 40 'the lass of Patie's Mill'. I like the fox shall grieve (Lucy) (featuring Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:01 |
| 67. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 01. Dialogue. To be sure, wench (Lockit/Lucy) (featuring Richard Jackson, Anne Dawson) |
1:03 |
| 68. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 02. Air 41 'If love's a sweet passion' (Purcell). When young at the bar you first taught me to score (Lucy/Lockit) (featuring Richard Jackson, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:42 |
| 69. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 03. Air 42 'South sea ballad'. My love is all madness and folly (Lucy/Lockit) (featuring Richard Jackson, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:23 |
| 70. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 04. Dialogue. Peachum then intends to outwit me (Lockit) (featuring Richard Jackson) |
0:56 |
| 71. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 05. Air 43 'Packington's pound'. Thus gamesters united in friendship are found (Lockit/Lucy) (featuring Richard Jackson, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:11 |
| 72. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 06. Dialogue. Why, boy, thou lookest as if thou wert half starv'd (Lockit/Filch) (featuring Richard Jackson, Ian Honeyman) |
1:14 |
| 73. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 07. Dialogue. I am sorry, gentlemen (Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson) |
0:17 |
| 74. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 08. Air 44 'Lillibulero' (attrib. Purcell). The modes of the court so common are grown (Macheath/Ben/Matt) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow, Karl Morgan, Roger Bryson) |
2:40 |
| 75. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 09. Dialogue. The coronation account, brother Peachum (Lockit/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Richard Jackson) |
1:29 |
| 76. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 10. Air 45 'Down in the north country'. What gudgeons are we men! (Lockit/Peachum/Servant) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Richard Jackson, Ian Honeyman, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:20 |
| 77. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 11. Dialogue. Dear Mrs Dye, your servant (Peachum/Trapes/Lockit) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker, Richard Jackson) |
0:28 |
| 78. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 12. Air 46 'a shepherd kept sheep'. In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove (Trapes/Peachum/Lockit) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Sarah Walker, Richard Jackson, Jeremy Barlow) |
4:57 |
| 79. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 13. Dialogue. Jealousy, rage, love and fear (Lucy) (featuring Anne Dawson) |
0:09 |
| 80. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 14. Air 47 'One evening, having lost my way'. I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed (Lucy/Filch) (featuring Ian Honeyman, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:15 |
| 81. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 15. Dialogue. Dear madam, your servant (Lucy) (featuring Anne Dawson) |
0:17 |
| 82. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 16. Air 48 'Now Roger, I'll tell thee, because thou'rt my son'. When a wife's in her pout (Lucy/Polly) (featuring Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
2:08 |
| 83. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 17. Air 49 'O Bessy Bell'. A curse attends that woman's love (Polly/Lucy) (featuring Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:23 |
| 84. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 18. Air 50 'Would fate to me Belinda give' (Wilford). Among the men, coquets we find (Polly/Lucy) (featuring Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:29 |
| 85. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 19. Air 51 'Come, sweet lass'. Come, sweet lass (Lucy) (featuring Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:00 |
| 86. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 20. Dialogue. All this wheedling of Lucy cannot be for nothing (Polly) (featuring Bronwen Mills) |
0:20 |
| 87. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 21. Dialogue. Come, Miss Polly (Lucy/Polly) (featuring Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson) |
0:51 |
| 88. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 22. Dialogue. Set your heart to rest, captain (Lockit/Peachum/Lucy/Polly) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Richard Jackson, Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson) |
0:32 |
| 89. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 23. Air 52 'the last time I went o'er the moor'. Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes (Polly/Lucy/Macheath/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:45 |
| 90. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 24. Air 53 'Tom Tinker's my true love'. Which way shall I turn me? (Macheath/Polly) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Jeremy Barlow) |
0:59 |
| 91. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 25. Air 54 'I am a poor shepherd undone'. When my hero in court appears (Polly/Lucy) (featuring Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:14 |
| 92. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 26. Air 55 'Ianthe the lovely' (Barrett). When he holds up his hand (Lucy/Lockit) (featuring Richard Jackson, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:40 |
| 93. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 27. Air 56 'a cobbler there was' (attrib. Leveridge). Our selves, like the great, to secure a retreat (Lockit/Peachum) (featuring Charlie Daniels, Richard Jackson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:27 |
| 94. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 28. Air 57 'Bonny Dundee'. The charge is prepar'd; the lawyers are met (Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:20 |
| 95. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 29. Dialogue. Follow them, Filch, to the court (Polly/Lucy) (featuring Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson) |
1:07 |
| 96. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 30. Air 58 to 66. O cruel, cruel, cruel case! (Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow) |
3:18 |
| 97. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 31. Air 67 'Green sleeves'. Since laws were made for ev'ry degree (Macheath/Jailer) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow, Timothy Taylor) |
1:02 |
| 98. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 32. Dialogue. For my having broke prison (Macheath/Matt/Jailer) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Roger Bryson, Timothy Taylor) |
1:02 |
| 99. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 33. Dialogue. My dear Lucy, my dear Polly (Macheath/Polly/Lucy) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson) |
0:30 |
| 100. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 34. Air 68 'All you that must take a leap' (Ramondon). Would I might be hang'd! (Lucy/Polly/Macheath/Jailer) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Bronwen Mills, Anne Dawson, Jeremy Barlow, Timothy Taylor) |
1:49 |
| 101. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 35. Dialogue. But, honest friend (Player/Beggar) (featuring Ian Caddy, Bob Hoskins) |
1:21 |
| 102. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 36. Dialogue. So, it seems, I am not left to my choice (Macheath/company) (featuring Adrian Thompson) |
0:38 |
| 103. |
The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 37. Air 69 'Lumps of pudding'. Thus I stand like the Turk (Macheath) (featuring Adrian Thompson, Jeremy Barlow) |
1:40 |
