John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Prologue
If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry
Warren Mitchell, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Bonynge
Gay: The Beggar's Opera
Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Bonynge, James Morris, Regina Resnik, Warren Mitchell, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Alfred Marks, Joan Sutherland, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I
Through All the Employments of Life
Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, National Philharmonic Orchestra
Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
Richard Bonynge, Alfredo Mariotti, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Alfredo Mariotti
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, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Richard Bonynge
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, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury, Richard Bonynge
O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury
A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Richard Bonynge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury
O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe – The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Angela Lansbury
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, Richard Bonynge, James Morris, National Philharmonic Orchestra, John Gibbs
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II
If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed With Cares
James Morris, Warren Mitchell, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
Youth's the Season Made for Joys
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, James Morris, Ann Murray, Anne Wilkens
Before the Barn Door Crowing
National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Morris, Anne Wilkens, Richard Bonynge, Ann Murray
The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike
Alfredo Mariotti, Anne Wilkens, James Morris, Richard Bonynge, Ann Murray, National Philharmonic Orchestra
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
Stafford Dean, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Alfredo Mariotti, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Regina Resnik
in the Days of My Youth
Alfredo Mariotti, Joan Sutherland, Regina Resnik, Stafford Dean, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed
Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Stafford Dean, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, Alfredo Mariotti, Joan Sutherland
Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Mariotti, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
Which Way Shall I Turn Me
When My Hero in Court Appears
When He Holds Up His Hand
James Morris, Stafford Dean, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfredo Mariotti
O Cruel, Cruel Case
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, James Morris, Alfredo Mariotti, National Philharmonic Orchestra
Would I Might Be Hanged!
James Morris, Alfredo Mariotti, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Joan Sutherland
But, Honest Friend, I Hope You Don't Intend
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Bonynge, James Morris, Warren Mitchell
Production
- Andrew CornallProducer
- James LockBalance Engineer
- Stanley GoodallBalance Engineer