Album lyrics Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera by Ann Murray

Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Ann Murray

1993 57 songs

1. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Prologue: "If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry"

2. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Prologue: Overture

3. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Through All the Employments of Life"

4. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"

5. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Women Are Bitter Bad Judges in These Cases. If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"

6. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"

7. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore"

8. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "I Know As Well As Any of the Fine Ladies. Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre"

9. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"

10. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice"

11. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "The Girl Shows Such a Readiness. O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"

12. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed"

13. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"

14. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe. The Turtle Thus with Plaintive Crying"

15. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed. Pretty Polly Say"

16. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "My Heart Was so Free"

17. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast"

18. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "O! What Pain It Is to Part!"

19. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"

20. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I: "And Now Our Scene Changes. Fill Ev'ry Glass"

21. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Success Attend You. Let Us Take the Road"

22. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares"

23. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome. Youth's the Season Made for Joys"

24. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "It Is Your Own Choice. Before the Barn Door Crowing"

25. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "But to Be Sure. The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike. At the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure"

26. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More. Man May Escape from Rope and Gun"

27. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"

28. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "It Is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men. How Cruel Are the Traitors"

29. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "The First Time at the Looking-Glass"

30. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Fortune Be with You, Lucy"

31. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Such Language, Brother! When You Censure the Age"

32. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?"

33. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "O Macheath! I Will Stay with Thee Till Death. Thus When the Swallow"

34. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Shall I Not Claim My Own? How Happy Could I Be with Either"

35. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself! Cease Your Funning"

36. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II: "Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"

37. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "But All Scores Have a Reckoning"

38. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education. When Young at the Bar"

39. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Ungrateful Macheath!"

40. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Thus Gamesters United in Friendship"

41. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "And Macheath, At Liberty and at Large.The Modes of the Court"

42. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "And Those Two Good Old Friends"

43. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Bring Us Then More Liquor! What Gudgeons Are We Men"

44. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "In the Days of My Youth"

45. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear. I'm Like a Skiff on the Ocean Tossed"

46. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"

47. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable of It. Among the Men Coquets We Find"

48. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"

49. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again in Custody! Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"

50. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Which Way Shall I Turn Me"

51. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence. When My Hero in Court Appears"

52. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened. When He Holds up His Hand"

53. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Ourselves, Like the Great"

54. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You to the Old Bailey. The Charge Is Prepared"

55. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "O Cruel, Cruel Case"

56. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Would I Might Be Hanged!"

57. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III: "Thus I Stand Like the Turk"