John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Prologue
If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, Warren Mitchell, Sir Michael Hordern
Gay: The Beggar's Opera
Alfred Marks, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Warren Mitchell, Regina Resnik, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Joan Sutherland, James Morris, Richard Bonynge, Sir Michael Hordern
Through All the Employments of Life
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I
Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge
If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
Angela Lansbury, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra
A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore
Angela Lansbury, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I
Our Polly Is a Sad Slut
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge
Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, Angela Lansbury, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Richard Bonynge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Richard Bonynge, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe – The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Angela Lansbury
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I
Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast
Yes, I Would Go With Thee – O! What Pain It Is to Part!
Fill Ev'ry Glass
Richard Bonynge, Graham Clark, National Philharmonic Orchestra, John Gibbs, James Morris
Handel: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II
If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed With Cares
Richard Bonynge, Warren Mitchell, National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris
Johann C. Pepusch: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II
Youth's the Season Made for Joys
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Ann Murray, Richard Bonynge, James Morris, Anne Wilkens
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II
Before the Barn Door Crowing
National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Richard Bonynge, Ann Murray, Anne Wilkens
The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike
Ann Murray, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Anne Wilkens, James Morris, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge
At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure
Man May Escape from Rope and Gun
Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat
How Cruel Are the Traitors
The First Time At the Looking-Glass
When You Censure the Age
Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II
You'll Think, Ere Many Days Ensue
Thus When the Swallow
How Happy Could I Be With Either
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II
Cease Your Funning
Why How Now, Madam Flirt?
No. Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III
Introduction – To Be Sure, Wench, You Must've Been
And so You Have Let Him Escape – My Love Is All Madness
The Modes of the Court
What Gudgeons Are We Men
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Stafford Dean, Regina Resnik, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
in the Days of My Youth
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Stafford Dean, Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Regina Resnik
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III
I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed
Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Stafford Dean, Joan Sutherland
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III
Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes
Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Which Way Shall I Turn Me
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III
When My Hero in Court Appears
When He Holds Up His Hand
Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, James Morris, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Stafford Dean, Joan Sutherland
O Cruel, Cruel Case
National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge
Would I Might Be Hanged!
Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, James Morris, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Joan Sutherland
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III
But, Honest Friend, I Hope You Don't Intend
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Warren Mitchell, James Morris, Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Bonynge
Production
- Andrew CornallProducer
- James LockBalance Engineer
- Stanley GoodallBalance Engineer