John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Prologue
"If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry"
Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera
Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins, John Rawnsley, Philip Langridge, Yvonne Kenny, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"Through All the Employments of Life"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, Christopher Gillet, Steuart Bedford
"'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"
Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, Christopher Gillet, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins
"Women Are Bitter Bad Judges in These Cases. If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins
"If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, Anne Collins
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, Christopher Gillet, Anne Collins
"I Know As Well As Any of the Fine Ladies. Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray
"Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"
Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice"
Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford
"The Girl Shows Such a Readiness. O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"
Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins
"A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"
Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe. The Turtle Thus with Plaintive Crying"
Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins
"Now I Am a Wretch Indeed. Pretty Polly Say"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"My Heart Was so Free"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge
"Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"O! What Pain It Is to Part!"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"
Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
"And Now Our Scene Changes. Fill Ev'ry Glass"
Declan Mulholland, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
"Success Attend You. Let Us Take the Road"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge
"Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome. Youth's the Season Made for Joys"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Helen Templeton, Philip Langridge, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
"It Is Your Own Choice. Before the Barn Door Crowing"
Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Helen Templeton, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"But to Be Sure. The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike. At the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure"
Helen Templeton, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, Philip Langridge, Debbie Miles-Johnson, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More. Man May Escape from Rope and Gun"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford
"Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"
Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: 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"
Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"The First Time at the Looking-Glass"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge
"Such Language, Brother! When You Censure the Age"
Steuart Bedford, John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
"O Macheath! I Will Stay with Thee Till Death. Thus When the Swallow"
Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
"Shall I Not Claim My Own? How Happy Could I Be with Either"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge
"Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself! Cease Your Funning"
Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"
Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43, Act II
"No Pow'r on Earth Can E'er Divide"
Robert Lloyd, John Rawnsley, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"But All Scores Have a Reckoning"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Declan Mulholland
"Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education. When Young at the Bar"
Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Thus Gamesters United in Friendship"
Steuart Bedford, John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"And Macheath, At Liberty and at Large.The Modes of the Court"
Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"And Those Two Good Old Friends"
Steuart Bedford, Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Bring Us Then More Liquor! What Gudgeons Are We Men"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"In the Days of My Youth"
Nuala Willis, Robert Lloyd, John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
John Gay: 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"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford
"A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford
John Gay: 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"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray
"Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again in Custody! Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence. When My Hero in Court Appears"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray
"Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened. When He Holds up His Hand"
Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Ourselves, Like the Great"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, John Rawnsley
"We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You to the Old Bailey. The Charge Is Prepared"
Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, John Rawnsley, Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"Would I Might Be Hanged!"
Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
Johann C. Pepusch: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"Thus I Stand Like the Turk"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir