Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say"

Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera

2 MINUTES AND 57 SECONDS

Album Tracklist

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue - "If Poverty Be a Title To Poetry"

00:54

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue - Overture

04:30

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "Through All the Employments Of Life"

01:55

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"

02:07

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "Women Are Bitter Bad Judges In These Cases...If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"

01:33

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"

02:06

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore"

01:24

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "I Know As Well As Any Of the Fine Ladies...Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower In Its Lustre"

02:26

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"

01:14

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice"

01:13

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "The Girl Shows Such a Readiness...O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"

02:34

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "I, Like a Ship In Storms, Was Tossed"

00:49

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"

01:33

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe...The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying"

02:44

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say"

02:57

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "My Heart Was So Free"

00:32

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast"

01:56

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "O! What Pain It Is To Part!"

01:00

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"

02:55

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "And Now Our Scene Changes...Fill Ev'ry Glass"

01:57

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Success Attend You...Let Us Take the Road"

01:38

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "If the Heart Of a Man Is Depressed With Cares"

02:14

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome...Youth's the Season Made For Joys"

04:21

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "It Is Your Own Choice...Before the Barn Door Crowing"

01:00

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "But To Be Sure...The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike...At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure"

02:25

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More...Man May Escape From Rope and Gun"

03:50

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"

00:44

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "It Is the Pleasure Of All You Fine Men...How Cruel Are the Traitors"

01:55

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "The First Time At the Looking-Glass"

01:06

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Fortune Be With You, Lucy"

00:29

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Such Language, Brother! ...When You Censure the Age"

00:47

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?"

02:18

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "O Macheath! I Will Stay With Thee Till Death...Thus When the Swallow"

01:48

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Shall I Not Claim My Own?...How Happy Could I Be With Either"

01:12

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself!...Cease Your Funning"

03:03

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"

00:52

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2 - "No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide"

01:49

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "But All Scores Have a Reckoning"

00:44

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education...When Young At the Bar"

02:53

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Ungrateful Macheath!"

01:26

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Thus Gamesters United In Friendship"

01:38

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "And Macheath, At Liberty and At Large...The Modes Of the Court"

02:47

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "And Those Two Good Old Friends"

00:22

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Bring Us Then More Liquor!...What Gudgeons Are We Men"

01:38

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "In the Days Of My Youth"

02:31

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear...I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed"

02:31

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"

01:29

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable Of It...Among the Men Coquets We Find"

00:38

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"

01:06

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again In Custody!...Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"

01:41

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Which Way Shall I Turn Me"

00:39

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence...When My Hero In Court Appears"

01:48

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened...When He Holds Up His Hand"

01:58

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Ourselves, Like the Great"

00:38

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You To the Old Bailey...The Charge Is Prepared"

01:58

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "O Cruel, Cruel Case"

05:14

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Would I Might Be Hanged!"

02:36

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3 - "Thus I Stand Like the Turk"

01:51

Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1 - "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say"