‎Britten: The Beggar's Opera by Donald Maxwell

If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry (Beggar)

Sirena Tocco, Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia

1:17

Overture

City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn

4:24

Through All the Employments of Life (Peachum)

City of London Sinfonia, Jeremy White, Christian Curnyn

1:18

Sir, Black Moll Hath Sent Word (Flich, Peachum)

City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Jeremy White, Robert Anthony Gardiner

0:42

Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind (Filch, Peachum)

City of London Sinfonia, Jeremy White, Christian Curnyn, Robert Anthony Gardiner

1:17

But It is Now High Time to Look About Me (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)

Christian Curnyn, Jeremy White, Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia

1:13

Women Indeed Are Bitter Bad Judges … Ev'ry Man Handsom Who is Going to the Camp - If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear (Mrs. Peachum)

Christian Curnyn, Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia

0:53

Was Captain Macheath Here This Morning? (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)

City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Jeremy White, Susan Bickley

0:54

If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)

Christian Curnyn, Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia, Jeremy White

1:52

A Maid is Like the Golden Ore (Mrs. Peachum)

Christian Curnyn, Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia

0:29

Come Hither, Filch (Mrs. Peachum, Filch)

Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia, Robert Anthony Gardiner, Christian Curnyn

0:59

I Know as Well as Any of the Fine Ladies - Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre (Polly, Peachum)

Leah-Marian Jones, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Jeremy White

2:23

Our Polly is a Sad Slut! (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum, Polly, Omnes)

Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia, Jeremy White, Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn

1:19

Can Love Be Controlled by Advice? (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)

Christian Curnyn, Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia, Leah-Marian Jones, Jeremy White

1:17

The Girl Shows Such a Readiness - O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Omnes)

Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia, Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn

2:17

I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)

Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn, Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia

0:53

A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum, Polly)

Leah-Marian Jones, Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Jeremy White

1:45

O Ponder Well! Be Not Severe (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)

Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia, Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn

0:49

The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying, Her Lover Dying (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)

Jeremy White, Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia, Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn

1:51

Now I'm a Wretch Indeed! (Polly, Macheath, Omnes)

Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Leah-Marian Jones, Tom Randle

3:02

My Heart Was So Free (Macheath, Polly)

Leah-Marian Jones, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle, Christian Curnyn

0:48

Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast (Macheath, Polly, Omnes)

Tom Randle, Leah-Marian Jones, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn

1:59

O! What Pain It is to Part! (Polly, Macheath)

Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle

0:55

The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees (Macheath, Polly)

Tom Randle, Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia

2:25

But Pr'thee, Mat, What is Become of Thy Brother Tom? (Mat of the Mint, Jemmy Twitcher, Nimming Ned, Harry Paddington, Wat Dreary)

Ben Thapa, Aidan Smith, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Thomas Barnard, Bryn Evans, Paul Hopwood, Mark Saberton

0:41

Fill Ev'ry Glass, for Wine Inspires Us (Gentlemen of the Road)

City of London Sinfonia, Ben Thapa, Christian Curnyn, Bryn Evans, Aidan Smith, Paul Hopwood, Mark Saberton, Thomas Barnard

0:49

Gentlemen, Well Met (Macheath, Mat of the Mint)

Ben Thapa, Tom Randle, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn

0:37

I Shall Wish Myself With You - Let Us Take the Road (Macheath, Harry Paddington, Gentlemen of the Road)

Bryn Evans, Ben Thapa, Tom Randle, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Paul Hopwood, Aidan Smith, Thomas Barnard

1:49

If the Heart of a Man is Depressed With Cares (Macheath)

Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle

2:05

Dear Mrs. Coaxer, You Are Welcome - Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Macheath, Ladies of the Town)

Siobhain Gibson, Alison Place, Bernadette Lord, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle, Clare McCaldin, Christian Curnyn, Kathryn Jenkin

4:35

Now Pray, Ladies, Take Your Places (Macheath, Jenny Diver, Mrs. Coaxer)

City of London Sinfonia, Miranda Westcott, Christian Curnyn, Tom Randle, Clare McCaldin

0:54

It is Your Own Choice - Before the Barn-door Crowing (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky Tawdry)

City of London Sinfonia, Bernadette Lord, Alison Place, Christian Curnyn, Miranda Westcott, Siobhain Gibson, Tom Randle, Clare McCaldin

1:32

But to Be Sure, Sir - the Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Betty Doxy, Macheath, Peachum)

Katherine Paterson, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Jeremy White, Bernadette Lord, Clare McCaldin, Miranda Westcott, Tom Randle, Siobhain Gibson

1:39

The Gentlemen, Ladies, Lodges in Newgate - Constables, Wait Upon the Captain to His Lodgings - at the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure (Peachum, Macheath)

City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle, Jeremy White, Christian Curnyn

0:47

Noble Captain, You Are Welcome (Lockit, Macheath)

Tom Randle, Donald Maxwell, Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia

0:52

Man May Escape From Rope and Gun (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)

Sarah Fox, Christian Curnyn, Tom Randle, City of London Sinfonia

3:28

Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)

Tom Randle, Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Sarah Fox

0:44

It is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men - How Cruel Are the Traytors (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)

Christian Curnyn, Sarah Fox, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle

2:32

The First Time at the Looking Glass (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)

Tom Randle, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Sarah Fox

1:13

in This Last Affair, Brother Peachum, We Are Agreed (Lockit, Peachum)

City of London Sinfonia, Jeremy White, Donald Maxwell, Christian Curnyn

0:45

Such Language, Brother, Anywhere Else - When You Censure the Age (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)

Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Donald Maxwell, Sarah Fox

1:08

Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)

City of London Sinfonia, Sarah Fox, Christian Curnyn, Donald Maxwell

1:42

Though the Chaplain Was Out of the Way To-day (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Polly)

Christian Curnyn, Leah-Marian Jones, Tom Randle, City of London Sinfonia, Sarah Fox

1:09

Thus When the Swallow Seeking Prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)

Leah-Marian Jones, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Sarah Fox, Tom Randle

1:54

If Women's Tongues Can Cease for an Answer - I Will Not! - How Happy Could I Be With Either - I'm Bubbled, Oh How I Am Troubled! (Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Polly)

Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn, Sarah Fox, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle

1:26

Cease Your Funning (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Omnes)

City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Tom Randle, Leah-Marian Jones, Sarah Fox

2:48

Why How Now, Madam Flirt! (Lucy Lockit, Polly, Peachum, Lockit)

Sarah Fox, Christian Curnyn, Jeremy White, Leah-Marian Jones, Donald Maxwell, City of London Sinfonia

1:05

Now Power on Earth Can E'er Divide (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes)

Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle, Donald Maxwell, Sarah Fox, Jeremy White

2:00

To Be Sure, Wench, You Must Have Been Aiding and Abetting (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)

Donald Maxwell, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Sarah Fox

0:49

Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)

Christian Curnyn, Donald Maxwell, Sarah Fox, City of London Sinfonia

3:19

Ungrateful Macheath! (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)

Sarah Fox, Christian Curnyn, Donald Maxwell, City of London Sinfonia

1:06

Thus Gamesters United in Friendship Are Found (Lockit)

Christian Curnyn, Donald Maxwell, City of London Sinfonia

1:43

Our Scene Doth Represent a Gaming House - the Modes of the Court So Common Are Grown (Beggar, Macheath, Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Omnes)ar,

Ben Thapa, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle, Christian Curnyn, Sirena Tocco, Aidan Smith

2:43

The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum, Mrs. Trapes)

Jeremy White, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Donald Maxwell, Frances McCafferty

2:14

in the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Lockit, Peachum)

City of London Sinfonia, Jeremy White, Frances McCafferty, Donald Maxwell, Christian Curnyn

2:21

in the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Beggar)

Frances McCafferty, City of London Sinfonia, Sirena Tocco, Christian Curnyn

0:39

Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear (Lucy Lockit)

City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Sarah Fox

1:07

I Have the Rat's-bane Ready (Lucy Lockit, Filch, Polly)

Leah-Marian Jones, City of London Sinfonia, Robert Anthony Gardiner, Sarah Fox, Christian Curnyn

2:12

A Curse Attends a Woman's Love (Polly, Lucy Lockit)

Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Leah-Marian Jones, Sarah Fox

1:38

When I Was Forced From Him (Polly, Lucy Lockit)

Sarah Fox, Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Leah-Marian Jones

1:02

Come, Sweet Lass (Lucy Lockit, Polly)

Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Sarah Fox, Leah-Marian Jones

1:55

Now Every Glimmering of Happiness is Lost (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Peachum)

Jeremy White, Leah-Marian Jones, Tom Randle, Christian Curnyn, Sarah Fox, City of London Sinfonia

1:45

Which Way Shall I Turn Me, How Can I Decide? (Macheath, Polly)

Tom Randle, Christian Curnyn, Leah-Marian Jones, City of London Sinfonia

0:41

Dear, Dear Sir, Sink the Material Evidence (Polly)

City of London Sinfonia, Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn

1:53

How Then Can You Be a Tyrant to Me - When He Holds Up His Hand Arraigned for His Life (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)

Donald Maxwell, City of London Sinfonia, Sarah Fox, Christian Curnyn

2:00

Ourselves, Like the Great, to Secure a Retreat (Lockit, Peachum)

City of London Sinfonia, Jeremy White, Donald Maxwell, Christian Curnyn

0:45

We Are Ready, Sir… - … to Conduct You to the Old Bailey! - The Charge is Prepared; the Lawyers Are Met (Lockit, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes, Mrs. Peachum)

Sarah Fox, Leah-Marian Jones, City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Tom Randle, Jeremy White, Donald Maxwell

1:54

O Cruel, Cruel Case! (Macheath, Jailer)

City of London Sinfonia, Christian Curnyn, Tom Randle

5:10

Would I Might Be Hanged! (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)

Sarah Fox, Christian Curnyn, Leah-Marian Jones, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle

1:59

But Surely You Don't Intend That Macheath Shall Really Be Executed? (Mat of the Mint, Beggar, Ben Budge, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Lockit, Peachum)

Sirena Tocco, City of London Sinfonia, Donald Maxwell, Christian Curnyn, Aidan Smith, Ben Thapa, Sarah Fox

1:18

Thus I Stand Like a Turk, With His Doxies Around (Macheath, Mrs, Peachum, Peachum, Ladies of the Town, Gentlemen of the Road, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Mrs. Trapes, Lockit)

Tom Randle, Leah-Marian Jones, Christian Curnyn, Sarah Fox, Susan Bickley, City of London Sinfonia, Frances McCafferty, Donald Maxwell

1:53

Benjamin Britten

Composer
George Frideric Handel

Composer
Johann Christoph Pepusch

Composer
City of London Sinfonia

Orchestra
Christian Curnyn

Conductor

Britten: The Beggar's Opera

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