Helen Templeton feat. Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Debbie Miles-Johnson, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge & Robert Lloyd - 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" Lyrics

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Helen Templeton feat. Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Debbie Miles-Johnson, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge & Robert Lloyd - Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera
Album Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera
date of release
01-01-1993

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"



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