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