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
Anne Collins, Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd
H. Purcell: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"Through All the Employments of Life"
Christopher Gillet, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"
Steuart Bedford, Christopher Gillet, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins
John Gay: 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"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, Anne Collins
"If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins
H. Purcell: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore"
Christopher Gillet, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins
John Gay: 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"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"
Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice"
Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins
"The Girl Shows Such a Readiness. O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed"
Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins
"A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, 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"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins
"Now I Am a Wretch Indeed. Pretty Polly Say"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
H. Purcell: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"My Heart Was so Free"
Philip Langridge, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast"
Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"O! What Pain It Is to Part!"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge
H. Purcell: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"
Philip Langridge, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"And Now Our Scene Changes. Fill Ev'ry Glass"
Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Declan Mulholland, 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"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
H. Purcell: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
"If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
"Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome. Youth's the Season Made for Joys"
Philip Langridge, Helen Templeton, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"It Is Your Own Choice. Before the Barn Door Crowing"
Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, 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, Debbie Miles-Johnson, Philip Langridge, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More. Man May Escape from Rope and Gun"
Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, John Rawnsley
"Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny
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"
Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
H. Purcell: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
"The First Time at the Looking-Glass"
Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
"Such Language, Brother! When You Censure the Age"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, John Rawnsley
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, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Shall I Not Claim My Own? How Happy Could I Be with Either"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge
"Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself! Cease Your Funning"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43, Act II
"No Pow'r on Earth Can E'er Divide"
Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny, Robert Lloyd, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"But All Scores Have a Reckoning"
Steuart Bedford, Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"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"
Declan Mulholland, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Bring Us Then More Liquor! What Gudgeons Are We Men"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"In the Days of My Youth"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, John Rawnsley, Nuala Willis, Robert Lloyd
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"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny
"A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny
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"
Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
"Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again in Custody! Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford
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"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford
"Ourselves, Like the Great"
Robert Lloyd, John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: 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"
Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, Robert Lloyd, Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Would I Might Be Hanged!"
Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford
"Thus I Stand Like the Turk"
Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir