The Beggar's Opera > BBC 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
- September 22, 1948
- Type
- Audio / Radio Cast
- Method
- Live
- Language
- English
- Location
- UK / England / London
- Producer
- Roger Beardsley (6)
- Conductor
- Benjamin Britten (31)
- Music Director
- Jack Kessler
- Performer
- English Opera Group Orchestra (2), Nancy Evans (5), Rose Hill (9), George James, Otakar Kraus (4), Flora Nielsen, Gladys Parr, Peter Pears (16), Jennifer Vyvyan (5)
- Notes
- This is a September 22, 1948 BBC broadcast of a slightly modified version of the 1948 Tyrone Guthrie/Benjamin Britten stage production of "The Beggar's Opera." It was privately recorded off the air onto twenty-one acetate disks, which were provided to Pearl by the Earl of Harewood. The sound was remastered onto a CD version that reflects the quality of the original acetate disks.
- Shortcode
- [r13612]
Releases
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Pearl 225
- Released
- 2005-04-26
- Barcode
- 727031022527
- Buy from
- # Tracks
- 49
- Length
- 79:03
- Lists
- 8 collectors / 7 wish lists
- Shortcode
- [rl19430]
1. Overture And Introduction
2. Through All The Employments Of life
3. If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
4. If Love The Virgin's Heart Unvade
5. A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore
6. Virgins Are Like The Fair Flowers
7. Our Polly Is A Sad Slut
8. Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice
9. O Polly, You Might Have Toyed And Kissed
10. O Ponder Well
11. The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying/Melodrama: Now I Am A Wretch Indeed
12. Pretty Polly, Say
13. My Heart Was So Free
14. Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast
15. Oh, What Pain It Is To Part
16. The Miser Thus A Shilling Sees
17. Fill Every Glass
18. Let Us Take The Road
19. If The Heart Of A Man
20. Youth's The Season
21. Before The Barn-Door Crowing
22. At The Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure
23. Man May Escape From Rope And Gun
24. Thus When The Good House-Wife
25. How Cruel Are The Traitors
26. The First Time At The Looking-Glass
27. Is Then His Fate Decreed Sir?
28. Thus When The Swallow
29. How Happy Could I Be With Either
30. Cease Your Funning
31. Why, How Now. Madam Flirt?
32. Power On Earth
33. Ungrateful Macheath...My Love Is All Madness And Folly
34. Thus Gamesters United In Friendship Are Found
35. What Gudgeons Are We Men
36. In the Days Of My Youth
37. I'm Like A Skiff On the Ocean Tossed
38. A Curse Attends The Woman's Love
39. Among The Men, Coquettes We Find
40. Come Sweet Lass
41. Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes
42. Which Wasy Shall I Turn Me
43. When My Hero In Court Appears
44. When He Holds Up His Hand
45. Ourselves Like The Great
46. The Charge Is Prepared
47. Scena: O Cruel, Cruel Case!/But Now Again My Spirits Sink/Since Laws Were Made For Every Degree
48. Would I Might Be Hanged
49. Thus I Stand Like The Turk
2. Through All The Employments Of life
3. If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
4. If Love The Virgin's Heart Unvade
5. A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore
6. Virgins Are Like The Fair Flowers
7. Our Polly Is A Sad Slut
8. Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice
9. O Polly, You Might Have Toyed And Kissed
10. O Ponder Well
11. The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying/Melodrama: Now I Am A Wretch Indeed
12. Pretty Polly, Say
13. My Heart Was So Free
14. Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast
15. Oh, What Pain It Is To Part
16. The Miser Thus A Shilling Sees
17. Fill Every Glass
18. Let Us Take The Road
19. If The Heart Of A Man
20. Youth's The Season
21. Before The Barn-Door Crowing
22. At The Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure
23. Man May Escape From Rope And Gun
24. Thus When The Good House-Wife
25. How Cruel Are The Traitors
26. The First Time At The Looking-Glass
27. Is Then His Fate Decreed Sir?
28. Thus When The Swallow
29. How Happy Could I Be With Either
30. Cease Your Funning
31. Why, How Now. Madam Flirt?
32. Power On Earth
33. Ungrateful Macheath...My Love Is All Madness And Folly
34. Thus Gamesters United In Friendship Are Found
35. What Gudgeons Are We Men
36. In the Days Of My Youth
37. I'm Like A Skiff On the Ocean Tossed
38. A Curse Attends The Woman's Love
39. Among The Men, Coquettes We Find
40. Come Sweet Lass
41. Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes
42. Which Wasy Shall I Turn Me
43. When My Hero In Court Appears
44. When He Holds Up His Hand
45. Ourselves Like The Great
46. The Charge Is Prepared
47. Scena: O Cruel, Cruel Case!/But Now Again My Spirits Sink/Since Laws Were Made For Every Degree
48. Would I Might Be Hanged
49. Thus I Stand Like The Turk