"If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry"
Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera
Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd, Philip Langridge, Yvonne Kenny, John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Through All the Employments of Life"
Christopher Gillet, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"
Christopher Gillet, Anne Collins, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Women Are Bitter Bad Judges in These Cases. If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"
Anne Collins, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"
Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
"A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore"
Steuart Bedford, Christopher Gillet, Anne Collins, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd
"I Know As Well As Any of the Fine Ladies. Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd
"Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"
Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice"
Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins
"The Girl Shows Such a Readiness. O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"
Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed"
Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford
"A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Anne Collins, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray
"O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe. The Turtle Thus with Plaintive Crying"
Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd
"Now I Am a Wretch Indeed. Pretty Polly Say"
Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"My Heart Was so Free"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge
"Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"O! What Pain It Is to Part!"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford
"The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"
Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge
"And Now Our Scene Changes. Fill Ev'ry Glass"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Declan Mulholland, Philip Langridge, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
"Success Attend You. Let Us Take the Road"
Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge
Britten: 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, Steuart Bedford, Helen Templeton, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, 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"
Helen Templeton, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"But to Be Sure. The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike. At the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure"
Debbie Miles-Johnson, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, Helen Templeton, 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"
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"
Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
"The First Time at the Looking-Glass"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act II
"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"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Ann Murray
"Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself! Cease Your Funning"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, 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"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"But All Scores Have a Reckoning"
Declan Mulholland, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education. When Young at the Bar"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny
"Thus Gamesters United in Friendship"
John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford, 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"
Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Declan Mulholland, Philip Langridge, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"And Those Two Good Old Friends"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Declan Mulholland, Steuart Bedford
"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"
John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford, Nuala Willis, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, 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"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
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, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray
"What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again in Custody! Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford
Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
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, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"Ourselves, Like the Great"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd, John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford
"We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You to the Old Bailey. The Charge Is Prepared"
Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"Would I Might Be Hanged!"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford
Johann C. Pepusch: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"Thus I Stand Like the Turk"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Aldeburgh Festival Choir