Britten: The Beggar's Opera

1. 1.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Introduction: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry (Beggar)1:18
2. 2.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43: Overture4:25
3. 3.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Through All the Employments of Life (Peachum)1:19
4. 4.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Sir, Black Moll Hath Sent Word (Flich, Peachum)0:43
5. 5.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind (Filch, Peachum)1:17
6. 6.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But It is Now High Time to Look About Me (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)1:13
7. 7.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Women Indeed Are Bitter Bad Judges … Ev'ry Man Handsom Who is Going to the Camp - If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear (Mrs. Peachum)0:53
8. 8.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Was Captain Macheath Here This Morning? (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)0:55
9. 9.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)1:53
10. 10.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A Maid is Like the Golden Ore (Mrs. Peachum)0:29
11. 11.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Come Hither, Filch (Mrs. Peachum, Filch)0:59
12. 12.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I Know as Well as Any of the Fine Ladies - Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre (Polly, Peachum)2:23
13. 13.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Our Polly is a Sad Slut! (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum, Polly, Omnes)1:19
14. 14.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Can Love Be Controlled by Advice? (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)1:17
15. 15.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Girl Shows Such a Readiness - O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Omnes)2:18
16. 16.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)0:53
17. 17.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum, Polly)1:46
18. 18.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O Ponder Well! Be Not Severe (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)0:49
19. 19.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying, Her Lover Dying (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)1:52
20. 20.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now I'm a Wretch Indeed! (Polly, Macheath, Omnes)3:03
21. 21.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: My Heart Was So Free (Macheath, Polly)0:48
22. 22.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast (Macheath, Polly, Omnes)1:59
23. 23.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O! What Pain It is to Part! (Polly, Macheath)0:56
24. 24.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees (Macheath, Polly)2:26
25. 25.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But Pr'thee, Mat, What is Become of Thy Brother Tom? (Mat of the Mint, Jemmy Twitcher, Nimming Ned, Harry Paddington, Wat Dreary)0:42
26. 26.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Fill Ev'ry Glass, for Wine Inspires Us (Gentlemen of the Road)0:49
27. 27.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Gentlemen, Well Met (Macheath, Mat of the Mint)0:37
28. 28.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I Shall Wish Myself With You - Let Us Take the Road (Macheath, Harry Paddington, Gentlemen of the Road)1:49
29. 29.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If the Heart of a Man is Depressed With Cares (Macheath)2:05
30. 30.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Dear Mrs. Coaxer, You Are Welcome - Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Macheath, Ladies of the Town)4:35
31. 31.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now Pray, Ladies, Take Your Places (Macheath, Jenny Diver, Mrs. Coaxer)0:54
32. 32.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: It is Your Own Choice - Before the Barn-door Crowing (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky Tawdry)1:33
33. 33.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But to Be Sure, Sir - the Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Betty Doxy, Macheath, Peachum)1:39
34. 34.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Gentlemen, Ladies, Lodges in Newgate - Constables, Wait Upon the Captain to His Lodgings - at the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure (Peachum, Macheath)0:47
35. 35.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Noble Captain, You Are Welcome (Lockit, Macheath)0:52
36. 36.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Man May Escape From Rope and Gun (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)3:29
37. 37.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)0:45
38. 38.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: It is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men - How Cruel Are the Traytors (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)2:32
39. 39.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: The First Time at the Looking Glass (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)1:14
40. 40.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: in This Last Affair, Brother Peachum, We Are Agreed (Lockit, Peachum)0:46
41. 41.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Such Language, Brother, Anywhere Else - When You Censure the Age (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)1:08
42. 42.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)1:42
43. 43.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Though the Chaplain Was Out of the Way To-day (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Polly)1:10
44. 44.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When the Swallow Seeking Prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)1:55
45. 45.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: If Women's Tongues Can Cease for an Answer - I Will Not! - How Happy Could I Be With Either - I'm Bubbled, Oh How I Am Troubled! (Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Polly)1:27
46. 46.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Cease Your Funning (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Omnes)2:48
47. 47.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Why How Now, Madam Flirt! (Lucy Lockit, Polly, Peachum, Lockit)1:06
48. 48.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Now Power on Earth Can E'er Divide (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes)2:01
49. 49.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: To Be Sure, Wench, You Must Have Been Aiding and Abetting (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)0:49
50. 50.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)3:20
51. 51.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ungrateful Macheath! (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)1:06
52. 52.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus Gamesters United in Friendship Are Found (Lockit)1:44
53. 53.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Our Scene Doth Represent a Gaming House - the Modes of the Court So Common Are Grown (Beggar, Macheath, Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Omnes)ar,2:43
54. 54.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum, Mrs. Trapes)2:15
55. 55.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: in the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Lockit, Peachum)2:22
56. 56.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: in the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Beggar)0:40
57. 57.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear (Lucy Lockit)1:07
58. 58.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: I Have the Rat's-bane Ready (Lucy Lockit, Filch, Polly)2:13
59. 59.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: A Curse Attends a Woman's Love (Polly, Lucy Lockit)1:38
60. 60.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: When I Was Forced From Him (Polly, Lucy Lockit)1:03
61. 61.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Come, Sweet Lass (Lucy Lockit, Polly)1:55
62. 62.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Now Every Glimmering of Happiness is Lost (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Peachum)1:46
63. 63.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Which Way Shall I Turn Me, How Can I Decide? (Macheath, Polly)0:41
64. 64.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear, Dear Sir, Sink the Material Evidence (Polly)1:53
65. 65.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: How Then Can You Be a Tyrant to Me - When He Holds Up His Hand Arraigned for His Life (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)2:00
66. 66.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ourselves, Like the Great, to Secure a Retreat (Lockit, Peachum)0:45
67. 67.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: We Are Ready, Sir… - … to Conduct You to the Old Bailey! - The Charge is Prepared; the Lawyers Are Met (Lockit, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes, Mrs. Peachum)1:54
68. 68.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: O Cruel, Cruel Case! (Macheath, Jailer)5:11
69. 69.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Would I Might Be Hanged! (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)1:59
70. 70.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: But Surely You Don't Intend That Macheath Shall Really Be Executed? (Mat of the Mint, Beggar, Ben Budge, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Lockit, Peachum)1:18
71. 71.The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus I Stand Like a Turk, With His Doxies Around (Macheath, Mrs, Peachum, Peachum, Ladies of the Town, Gentlemen of the Road, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Mrs. Trapes, Lockit)1:54