John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Prologue
"If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry"
Declan Mulholland, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera
Ann Murray, Anne Collins, Steuart Bedford, John Rawnsley, Yvonne Kenny, Robert Lloyd, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
Pepusch: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Prologue
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"Through All the Employments of Life"
Robert Lloyd, Christopher Gillet, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"
Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, Christopher Gillet, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Women Are Bitter Bad Judges in These Cases. If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"
Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"
Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act I
"A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore"
Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Christopher Gillet, Anne Collins
"I Know As Well As Any of the Fine Ladies. Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre"
Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"
Robert Lloyd, Anne Collins, Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice"
Ann Murray, Anne Collins, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"The Girl Shows Such a Readiness. O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"
Anne Collins, Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed"
Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
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"
Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, Anne Collins, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Now I Am a Wretch Indeed. Pretty Polly Say"
Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Ann Murray, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"My Heart Was so Free"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"O! What Pain It Is to Part!"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
John Gay: 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
"And Now Our Scene Changes. Fill Ev'ry Glass"
Declan Mulholland, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, 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"
Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares"
Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"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"
Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Helen Templeton, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"But to Be Sure. The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike. At the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure"
Philip Langridge, Robert Lloyd, Debbie Miles-Johnson, Steuart Bedford, Helen Templeton, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More. Man May Escape from Rope and Gun"
Steuart Bedford, John Rawnsley, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"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, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"The First Time at the Looking-Glass"
The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge
"Such Language, Brother! When You Censure the Age"
John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford, 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"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Shall I Not Claim My Own? How Happy Could I Be with Either"
Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself! Cease Your Funning"
Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
"Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, 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"
Yvonne Kenny, Steuart Bedford, Robert Lloyd, Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, 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
"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"
Steuart Bedford, Declan Mulholland, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, 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"
John Rawnsley, Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"In the Days of My Youth"
Robert Lloyd, Steuart Bedford, John Rawnsley, Nuala Willis, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
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, Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, 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"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again in Custody! Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"
Steuart Bedford, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
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"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened. When He Holds up His Hand"
Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
"Ourselves, Like the Great"
John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Robert Lloyd
"We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You to the Old Bailey. The Charge Is Prepared"
Yvonne Kenny, John Rawnsley, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"Would I Might Be Hanged!"
Ann Murray, Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny
Johann C. Pepusch: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (Realised by Britten) Act III
"Thus I Stand Like the Turk"
Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Choir