The Beggar's Opera > Studio 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
- 1981
- Type
- Audio / Studio Cast
- Method
- Studio
- Language
- English
- Book
- Richard Bonynge (42)
- Conductor
- Douglas Gamley (17)
- Music Director
- Douglas Gamley (17)
- Orchestrations
- Douglas Gamley (17)
- Performer
- Grahame Clarke, Stafford Dean (4), John Gibbs, Michael Hordern (11), Angela Lansbury (119), Warren Mitchell (3), James Morris (9), Ann Murray (4), Regina Resnik (12), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (2), Joan Sutherland (34), Kiri Te Kanawa (58), Anne Wilkens
- Notes
- "New performing edition by Richard Bonynge and Douglas Gamley" - from LP back cover
- Shortcode
- [r7843]
Releases (3)
- Format
- 2-CD
- Label
- Decca Eloquence 442 8629
- Released
- 2010-08-31
- Country
- Australia
- Barcode
- 028944286298
- Buy from
- Lists
- 0 collectors / 1 wish list
- History
- 1 Revisions
- Shortcode
- [rl49232]
1. The Beggar's Opera - Various Performers - Various Performers
- Format
- 2-CD
- Label
- DECCA 430 066-2
- Released
- 1990
- Barcode
- 028943006620
- Buy from
- Lists
- 17 collectors / 7 wish lists
- Shortcode
- [rl12250]
CD 1:
The Prologue
1. If poverty be a title to poetry.
2. Overture.
Act I
3. Trough all the employments of life.
4. Tis woman seduces all mankind.
5. If any wench Venus'girdle wear.
6. A maiden is like a golden ore.
7. Virgins are like the fair flow'r in its lustre.
8. Our Polly is a sad slut.
9. Can love be controll'd by advice.
10. O Polly you might have toy'd and kist.
11. A fox may steal your hens, sir.
12. O Ponder well, be not severe.
13. Pretty Polly, say.
14. My heart was so free.
15. Were I laid on Greenland's coast.
16. Yes, I would go with thee.
Act II
17. Fill ev'ry glass.
18. Let us take the road.
19. If the heart of a man is deprest with cares.
20. Youth's the season made for joy's.
21. Before the barn door crowing.
22. The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike.
23. At the tree I shall suffer.
CD 2:
Act II (conclusion)
1. Man may escape from rope and gun.
2. Thus when a good housewife sees a rat.
3. How cruel are the traitors.
4. The first time at the looking-glass.
5. When you censure the age.
6. is then his fate decreed, sir?.
7. You'll think, ere many days ensue.
8. Thus when the swallow seeking prey.
9. How happy I could be with either.
10. Cease your funning.
11. Why how now, madam flirt.
12. No pow'r on earth can e'er divide.
13. I like the fox shall grieve.
Act III
14. Introduction... To be sure, wench, you've you must've been.
15. When young, at the bar.
16. And so I let him escape.
17. The modes os the Court so common.
18. What gudgeons are we man!.
19. In the days of my youth.
20. I'm lika a skiff on the ocean tost.
21. Come sweet lass.
22. Look hither, dear husband.
23. Which way shall I turn me?.
24. Whwn my hero in court appears.
25. When he holds up is hand.
26. The charge is prepared.
27. O cruel, cruel, cruel, case.
28. Would I might be hanged!.
29. But honest friend, I hope you don't intend.
30. Thus I stand like the Turk.
The Prologue
1. If poverty be a title to poetry.
2. Overture.
Act I
3. Trough all the employments of life.
4. Tis woman seduces all mankind.
5. If any wench Venus'girdle wear.
6. A maiden is like a golden ore.
7. Virgins are like the fair flow'r in its lustre.
8. Our Polly is a sad slut.
9. Can love be controll'd by advice.
10. O Polly you might have toy'd and kist.
11. A fox may steal your hens, sir.
12. O Ponder well, be not severe.
13. Pretty Polly, say.
14. My heart was so free.
15. Were I laid on Greenland's coast.
16. Yes, I would go with thee.
Act II
17. Fill ev'ry glass.
18. Let us take the road.
19. If the heart of a man is deprest with cares.
20. Youth's the season made for joy's.
21. Before the barn door crowing.
22. The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike.
23. At the tree I shall suffer.
CD 2:
Act II (conclusion)
1. Man may escape from rope and gun.
2. Thus when a good housewife sees a rat.
3. How cruel are the traitors.
4. The first time at the looking-glass.
5. When you censure the age.
6. is then his fate decreed, sir?.
7. You'll think, ere many days ensue.
8. Thus when the swallow seeking prey.
9. How happy I could be with either.
10. Cease your funning.
11. Why how now, madam flirt.
12. No pow'r on earth can e'er divide.
13. I like the fox shall grieve.
Act III
14. Introduction... To be sure, wench, you've you must've been.
15. When young, at the bar.
16. And so I let him escape.
17. The modes os the Court so common.
18. What gudgeons are we man!.
19. In the days of my youth.
20. I'm lika a skiff on the ocean tost.
21. Come sweet lass.
22. Look hither, dear husband.
23. Which way shall I turn me?.
24. Whwn my hero in court appears.
25. When he holds up is hand.
26. The charge is prepared.
27. O cruel, cruel, cruel, case.
28. Would I might be hanged!.
29. But honest friend, I hope you don't intend.
30. Thus I stand like the Turk.
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