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