Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera – Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Ann Murray & Yvonne Kenny

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

The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:55

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

The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

4:31

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

Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:56

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

Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

2:08

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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"

Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:34

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

Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

2:07

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

Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

1:25

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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"

Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

2:27

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

Anne Collins, Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd & The Aldeburgh Festival Choir

1:15

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

Ann Murray, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

1:14

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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"

Anne Collins, Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd & The Aldeburgh Festival Choir

2:35

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

Ann Murray, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

0:50

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

Ann Murray, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

1:34

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

Ann Murray, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

2:45

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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

2:58

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

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

0:32

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

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

1:57

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

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

1:00

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

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

2:56

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

1:58

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

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

1:39

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

2:15

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

4:22

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

1:01

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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"

Philip Langridge & Robert Lloyd

2:26

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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"

Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

3:51

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

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:45

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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"

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:56

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:07

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

The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:30

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

John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:48

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

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

2:18

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

Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:49

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

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

1:13

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

Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

3:04

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

Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:53

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

Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge & Robert Lloyd

1:50

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

The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:44

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

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

2:53

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

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:27

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

John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:39

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

2:48

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

The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:23

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

John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:39

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

Nuala Willis, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

2:32

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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"

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

2:32

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

Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:30

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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"

Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:39

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

Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:07

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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"

Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:42

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:40

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

Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:49

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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"

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

1:58

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

John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

0:39

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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"

Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge & John Rawnsley

1:59

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

5:15

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

Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Philip Langridge & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

2:37

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

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

1:52