John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Prologue
If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry
Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Warren Mitchell
Gay: The Beggar's Opera
Richard Bonynge, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Sir Michael Hordern, Joan Sutherland, James Morris, Warren Mitchell, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Regina Resnik, Alfred Marks
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I
Through All the Employments of Life
Richard Bonynge, Alfredo Mariotti, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Richard Bonynge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Alfredo Mariotti
If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury
A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Richard Bonynge
Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Our Polly Is a Sad Slut
Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Alfredo Mariotti
Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury
O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed
Richard Bonynge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury
A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Richard Bonynge
O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe – The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Alfredo Mariotti, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Pretty Polly Say
Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast
Yes, I Would Go With Thee – O! What Pain It Is to Part!
Fill Ev'ry Glass
Graham Clark, John Gibbs, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II
If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed With Cares
Warren Mitchell, National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Richard Bonynge
Youth's the Season Made for Joys
Ann Murray, National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Anne Wilkens, Richard Bonynge
Before the Barn Door Crowing
National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Anne Wilkens, Richard Bonynge, Ann Murray
The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike
Anne Wilkens, National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Ann Murray, 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?
You'll Think, Ere Many Days Ensue
Thus When the Swallow
How Happy Could I Be With Either
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 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
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Stafford Dean, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Regina Resnik
in the Days of My Youth
Regina Resnik, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfredo Mariotti, Stafford Dean, Richard Bonynge, Joan Sutherland
I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed
Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow
Stafford Dean, Richard Bonynge, Alfredo Mariotti, Joan Sutherland, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, National Philharmonic Orchestra
Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes
Alfredo Mariotti, Joan Sutherland, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
Which Way Shall I Turn Me
When My Hero in Court Appears
When He Holds Up His Hand
National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Stafford Dean, Richard Bonynge, Alfredo Mariotti, Joan Sutherland
O Cruel, Cruel Case
National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Alfredo Mariotti, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Richard Bonynge, Joan Sutherland
Would I Might Be Hanged!
Alfredo Mariotti, National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Joan Sutherland, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Richard Bonynge
But, Honest Friend, I Hope You Don't Intend
National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Richard Bonynge, Sir Michael Hordern, Warren Mitchell
Production
- Andrew CornallProducer
- James LockBalance Engineer
- Stanley GoodallBalance Engineer