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: 1955
Type: Audio / Studio Cast
Method: Studio
Language: English
Music: Edward German (17)
Lyrics: Charles H. Taylor (4)
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent [1] (22)
Performer: Owen Brannigan (20), Eleanore Bryan, John Cameron (73), Loretta Davett, Robert Fraser, Ronald Fraser (2), Laurence Hardy, Robert Hardy (3), Daphne Heard, Jane Jacobs, Elsie Morison (14), Aubrey Morris (2), John Neville (7), Anna Pollak (6), Eric Porter, Rachel Roberts (4), Ann Robson, Paul Rogers (5), Constance Shacklock (5), Monica Sinclair (19), Zena Walker, Ian Wallace (31), John Wills, Alexander Young (9)
Shortcode: [r7936]

Releases (3)

Format: 2-CD
Label: Classics for Pleasure 75972
Release Date: 2003-08-05
UPC / EAN: 724357597227
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Also Contains: Tom Jones - 1966 Studio Cast
# Tracks: 58
Length: 2:15:07
Lists: 16 collectors / 3 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl10461]

	Disc 1:
1.	Overture -- John Wills
2.	Thro' All The Employments Of Life -- Owen Brannigan
3.	'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind -- Alexander Young
4.	If Love The Virgin's Heart Invade -- Constance Shacklock
5.	A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore -- Constance Shacklock
6.	Virgins Are Like The Fair Flower -- Elsie Morison
7.	Our Polly Is A Sad Slut -- Constance Shacklock
8.	Can Love Be Controlled By Advice? -- Elsie Morison
9.	O Polly, You Might Have Toy'd And Kiss'd -- Elsie Morison
10.	I Like A Ship In Storms Was Tossed -- Elsie Morison
11.	A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir -- Owen Brannigan
12.	O Ponder Well -- Elsie Morison
13.	Pretty Polly, Say -- Elsie Morison
14.	My Heart Was So Free -- John Cameron
15.	Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast -- Elsie Morison
16.	O What Pain It Is To Part -- Elsie Morison
17.	Fill Every Glass -- Alexander Young
18.	Let Us Take The Road -- Alexander Young
19.	If The Heart Of A Man -- John Cameron
20.	Youth's The Season -- Dance
21.	Before The Barn-Door Crowing -- Dance
22.	At The Tree I Shall Suffer -- John Cameron
23.	Man May Escape From Rope And Gun -- John Cameron
24.	How Cruel Are The Traitors -- Monica Sinclair
25.	When You Censure The Age -- Owen Brannigan
26.	How Happy Could I Be With Either -- John Cameron
27.	I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled -- Monica Sinclair
28.	Cease Your Funning -- Elsie Morison
29.	Melodrama: The Escape Of Macheath -- John Wills
	Disc 2:
1.	The Modes Of The Court So Common Are Grown -- Alexander Young
2.	In the Days Of My Youth -- Owen Brannigan
3.	Entrance Of Lucy -- John Wills
4.	I'm Like A Skiff On The Ocean Tost -- Monica Sinclair
5.	Come, Sweet Lass -- Monica Sinclair
6.	Hither, Dear Husband -- Monica Sinclair
7.	Which Way Shall I Turn Me? -- John Cameron
8.	The Charge Is Prepared -- John Cameron
9.	Macheath's Soliloquy -- John Wills
10.	Would I Might Be Hang'd -- Monica Sinclair
11.	Thus I Stand Like The Turk -- John Cameron
12.	Introduction song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
	Don't You Find the Weather Charming? -- Gilbert Vinter & His Orchestra song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
13.	On A January Morning In Zummerzetsheer -- Nigel Brooks Chorus song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
14.	West County Lad, What Is't Ye Lack? -- Nigel Brooks Chorus song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
15.	To-Day My Spinet, Closed And Idly Still -- Cynthia Glover song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
16.	Wisdom Says 'Festina Lente' -- Shirley Minty song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
17.	Madrigal: Here's A Paradox For Lovers -- Shirley Minty song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
18.	Dream O' Day Jill -- Cynthia Glover song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
19.	As All The Maids And I One Day -- Shirley Minty song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
20.	A Soldier's Scarlet Coat -- Nigel Brooks Chorus song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
21.	Love Maketh The Heart a Garden Fair -- Cynthia Glover song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
22.	Morris Dance -- Gilbert Vinter & His Orchestra
23.	Gavotte: Glass Of Fashion, Mould Of Form -- Gilbert Vinter & His Orchestra song from Tom Jones
24.	The Green Ribbon -- Shirley Minty song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
25.	If Love's Content Lie In The Spoken Word -- Frederick Harvey song from Tom Jones track from Tom Jones [1966 Studio Cast]
26.	Recitative And Waltz Song: Which Is My Own True Self... -- Cynthia Glover song from Tom Jones
27.	Recitative And Waltz Song: For To-night Let Me Dream Out My Dream Of Delight -- Cynthia Glover song from Tom Jones
28.	Hark! The Merry Marriage Bells -- Shirley Minty