The Beggar's Opera > Haymarket Theatre London

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

Recording Details

Date: 1940
Type: Audio / Stage Cast
Method: Studio
Language: English
Location: UK / England / London
Producer: Charles Haynes (9)
Conductor: Michael Mudie
Orchestrations: Frederic Austin (3)
Performer: Alys Brough, Joseph Farrington, Bruce Flegg, Ruby Gilchrist, Linda Gray (4), Roy Henderson, Audrey Mildmay, Michael Redgrave (8), Constance Willis (3)
Shortcode: [r12621]

Releases (2)

Format: CD
Label: Palaeophonics 097
Released: 2009
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# Tracks: 14
Length: 55:18
Lists: 3 collectors / 0 wish lists
History: 1 Revisions
Shortcode: [rl64956]

Format: CD
Label: Pearl 9917
Released: 1993-01-20
Barcode: 727031991724
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Performer: Ivan Samson (3), Nadine March, Nigel Playfair, Olive Groves (4), Rupert Bruce, Stella Seager, Wilfred Temple
Notes: Also contains excerpts from 1925 production of "Lionel and Clarissa" by Isaac Bickerstaff & Charles Dibdin
# Tracks: 39
Lists: 12 collectors / 8 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl17901]

1. 'The Beggar's Opera': Overture
2. 'The Beggar's Opera': Thro'All The Employement Of Life
3. 'The Beggar's Opera': 'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
4. 'The Beggar's Opera': If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
5. 'The Beggar's Opera': Our Polly Is A Sad Slut
6. 'The Beggar's Opera': Can Love B e Controlled By Advice
7. 'The Beggar's Opera': O, Polly, You Might Have Toyed And Kissed
8. 'The Beggar's Opera': A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
9. O Ponder Well
10. The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
11. 'The Beggar's Opera': My Heart Was So Free
12. 'The Beggar's Opera': Where I Laid On Greenland's Coast; O What pain It Is To Part
13. 'The Beggar's Opera': Fill Every Glass; Let Us Take The Road
14. 'The Beggar's Opera': If The Heart Of A Man
15. 'The Beggar's Opera': Youth's The Season
16. 'The Beggar's Opera': Before The Barn-Door Crowing
17. 'The Beggar's Opera': How Cruel Are The Traitors
18. 'The Beggar's Opera': When You Censure The Age
19. 'The Beggar's Opera': Is Then His Fate Decreed?
20. 'The Beggar's Opera': How Happy Could I Be With Either
21. 'The Beggar's Opera': I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled
22. 'The Beggar's Opera': Cease Your Funning
23. 'The Beggar's Opera': Why, How Now, Madam Flirt
24. 'The Beggar's Opera': No Power On Earth
25. 'The Beggar's Opera': Interlude
26. 'The Beggar's Opera': When Young At The Bar
27. 'The Beggar's Opera': I'm Like A Skiff
28. 'The Beggar's Opera': Thus Gamesters United
29. 'The Beggar's Opera': The Modes Of The Court
30. 'The Beggar's Opera': In The Days Of My Youth
31. 'The Beggar's Opera': A Curse Attends That Woman's Love
32. 'The Beggar's Opera': Come, Sweet Lass
33. 'The Beggar's Opera': Hither, Dear Husband
34. 'The Beggar's Opera': Which Way Shall I Turn Me?
35. 'The Beggar's Opera': The Charge Is Prepared
36. 'The Beggar's Opera': Dance Of Prisoners In Chains
37. 'The Beggar's Opera': Would I Might Be Hang'd
38. 'The Beggar's Opera': Finale: Thus I Stand Like The Turk
39. Lionel and Clarissa: Medley