The Beggar's Opera > London Cast


Show Details

Show
The Beggar's Opera (20)
Music
Johann Christoph Pepusch (2)
Lyrics
John Gay (3)
Book
John Gay (3)

Recording Details

Date
1920
Type
Audio / Stage Cast
Method
Studio
Language
English
Location
UK / England / London
Performer
Colin Ashdown, Frederic Austin (3), Phyllis Blackburne, Alfred Heather, Kathlyn Hilliard (2), Nonny Lock, Violet Marquesita, Sylvia Nelis (2), Frederick Ranalow (3), Tristan Rawson, Scott Russell (3), Dorothy Smithard, Nellie Walker (10)
Notes
Lyric Theatre. Recorded using an acoustic horn at the newly opened studios of the Gramophone & Typewriter Limited (later to be known as His Master's Voice at Hayes).
Shortcode
[r13109]

Releases (3)

Format
2-CD
Label
Palaeophonics 153/154
Released
2020
Country
UK
Audio
Mono
Also Contains
Polly - 1923 London Cast
Lists
4 collectors / 0 wish lists
History
1 Revisions
Shortcode
[rl71771]
Format
CD
Label
Past Classics
Released
2008
Barcode
883629502083
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# Tracks
5
Length
46:06
Lists
11 collectors / 2 wish lists
Shortcode
[rl18615]
1. Selection: Numbers 19, 10, 23, 22, 21 4:10
2. Act I 14:18
3. Act II 14:13
4. Act III 9:43
5. Selection: Numbers 26, 13, 47, 17, 54 3:54
Format
CD
Label
Symposium 1307
Released
2003-03-25
Barcode
760411307029
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Also Contains
Polly - 1923 London Cast
Length
78:00
Lists
9 collectors / 5 wish lists
Shortcode
[rl18616]
1. The Beggar's Opera, Act 1. Virgins are like the fair flower -- Sylvia Nelis
2. The Beggar's Opera, Act 1. Can love be controlled by advice? -- Kathlyn Hilliard
3. The Beggar's Opera, Act 1. O Polly, you might have toy'd and kiss'd -- Sylvia Nelis, Nellie Walker
4. The Beggar's Opera, Act 1. A fox may steal your hens -- Frederic Austin
5. The Beggar's Opera, Act 1. O ponder well -- Sylvia Nelis
6. The Beggar's Opera, Act 1. The turtle thus with plaintive crying -- Kathlyn Hilliard
7. The Beggar's Opera, Act 1. My heart was so free -- Frederick Ranalow
8. The Beggar's Opera, Act 1. Were I laid on Greenland's coast -- Frederick Ranalow, Sylvia Nelis
9. The Beggar's Opera, Act 1. Oh! What pain it is to part -- Frederick Ranalow, Sylvia Nelis
10. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Fill every glass -- Alfred Heather
11. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Let us take the road -- Alfred Heather
12. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. If the heart of a man -- Frederick Ranalow
13. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Music to a Dialogue --
14. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Why, how now Madame Flirt? -- Phyllis Blackburne, Dorothy Smithard
15. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Before the barn door crowing -- Nonny Lock
16. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Man may escape from rope and gun -- Frederick Ranalow
17. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Thus when a good housewife sees a rat -- Violet Marquesita
18. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. The first time at the looking glass -- Frederick Ranalow
19. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Thus gamesters united in friendship are found -- Scott Russell, Tristan Rawson
20. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Thus when the swallow -- Sylvia Nelis
21. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. How happy I could be with either -- Frederick Ranalow
22. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. I'm bubbled, I'm troubled -- Sylvia Nelis, Violet Marquesita
23. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Cease your funning -- Sylvia Nelis
24. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Here in a humour I was of late -- Colin Ashdown
25. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. The modes of the Court so common are grown -- Frederick Ranalow
26. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. In the days of my youth -- Nellie Walker, Frederic Austin
27. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Interlude --
28. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. I'm like a skiff on the ocean tost -- Violet Marquesita
29. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. O cruel, cruel case -- Frederick Ranalow
30. The Beggar's Opera, Act 2. Would I might be hanged -- Frederick Ranalow, Sylvia Nelis, Violet Marquesita
31. Polly, Act 1. She who hath felt a real pain -- Lilian Davies
32. Polly, Act 1. The Crow or Daw -- Lilian Davies
33. Polly, Act 1. I will have my humours -- Winifred Hare, Lilian Davies
34. Polly, Act 1. When a woman jealous grows -- Winifred Hare, Stanley Vilven
35. Polly, Act 1. Utterly alone and forsaken -- Lilian Davies
36. Polly, Act 1. Unless you take her -- Winifred Hare, Gladys Sinclair
37. Polly, Act 1. A woman when battle presses -- Stanley Vilven
38. Polly, Act 2. A Pirate must either sink --
39. Polly, Act 2. How greatly is a rascal -- Pitt Chatham
40. Polly, Act 2. Though woman be a pretty craft -- Percy Parsons
41. Polly, Act 2. By woman won -- Pitt Chatham
42. Polly, Act 2. How many men have found -- Adrienne Brune
43. Polly, Act 2. Shall I not be bold -- Pitt Chatham, Adrienne Brune
44. Polly, Act 2. The world is always jarring -- Pitt Chatham, Adrienne Brune, Lilian Davies
45. Polly, Act 2. By bolder steps -- Pitt Chatham, Lovat Crossley
46. Polly, Act 2. Brave Boys, prepare! -- Lovat Crossley
47. Polly, Act 2. Virtue's treasure -- Lilian Davies
48. Polly, Act 2. Laugh, boys, laugh -- Pitt Chatham, Lovat Crossley
49. Polly, Act 3. Sleep, O sleep -- Lilian Davies
50. Polly, Act 3. Wait until you spy the charmer -- Pitt Chatham, Gladys Sinclair
51. Polly, Act 3. Tho' different passions -- Pitt Chatham
52. Polly, Act 3. As sits the sad turtle -- Lilian Davies
53. Polly, Act 3. When horns with cheerful -- Stanley Vilven
54. Polly, Act 3. Love that hath sorrowed -- Pitt Chatham, Lilian Davies

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