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    John Gay

    219 songs
    Total 4 albums

    The Beggar's Opera

    1995
    TitleListen
    Overture2:46
    Thro' All the Employment of Life0:59
    'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind1:03
    If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear0:44
    Our Polly Is a Sad Slut0:35
    Can Love Be Controlled by Advice1:29
    O, Polly, You Have Been Toyed and Kissed1:53
    As Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir0:36
    O Ponder Well1:36
    The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying1:38
    My Heart Was So Free0:39
    Where I Laid on Greenlands's Coast, O What a Pain It Is to Part3:43
    Fill Every Glass; Let Us Take to the Road2:31
    If the Heart of a Man1:21
    Youth's the Season2:21
    Before the Barn-Door Crowimg0:53
    How Cruel Are the Traitors1:26
    When You Censure the Age0:56
    Is Then His Fate Degreed?0:51
    How Happy I Could Be With Either0:42
    I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled0:40
    Cease Your Funning1:46
    Why, How Now Madam Flirt0:40
    No Power on Earth1:44
    Interlude1:24
    When Young at the Bar1:25
    I'm Like a Skiff0:51
    Thus Gamesters United1:07
    The Modes of the Court0:57
    In the Days of My Youth0:56
    A Curse Attends That Woman's Love1:20
    Come, Sweet Lass0:32
    Hither, Dear Husband1:22
    Which Way Shall I Turn Me?0:49
    The Charge Is Prepared1:19
    Dance of the Prisoners in Chains1:01
    Would I Be Hang'd2:08
    Finale: Thus I Stand Like the Turk1:24
    Finale: Thus I Stand Like the Turk 224:00

    The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)

    1991
    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" (Beggar, Player)1:57
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue / Overture3:13
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Through all the employments of life" (Peachum)0:59
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue "Sir, Black Moll hath sent word" (Filch, Peachum)1:30
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "'Tis woman that seduces all mankind" (Filch, Peachum)1:43
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "But 'tis now high time to look about me" (Peachum)2:05
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "What of Bob Booty, husband?" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)0:35
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air "If any wench Venus's girdle wear" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)3:45
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "If love the virgin's heart invade" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)3:01
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Never was a man more out the way in an argument" (Mrs Peachum)0:23
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A maid is like the golden ore" (Mrs Peachum)0:42
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Come hither, Filch" (Mrs Peachum, Filch)2:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "I know as well as any of the fine ladies" (Polly)0:31
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre" (Polly, Peachum)2:01
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Our Poly is a sad slut!" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly)2:35
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Can love be control'd by advice?" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)2:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed" (Mrs Peachum, Polly)1:41
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "I like a ship in storms was tossed" (Polly, Peachum)1:14
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Dear wife, be a little pacified" (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)0:53
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A fox may steal your hens, sir" (Peachum)1:06
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "'Twas only Nimming Ned" (Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum)1:49
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Oh, ponder well! be not severe" (Polly, Mrs Peachum)1:19
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The turtle thus with plaintive crying" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)1:44
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "The thing, husband, must and shall be done" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)0:49
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Now I'm a wretch" (Polly)1:34
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Pretty Polly, say" (Macheath, Polly)1:14
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "My heart was so free" (Macheath, Polly)1:10
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" (Macheath, Polly)1:13
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O what pain it is to part!" (Polly, Macheath)2:50
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The miser thus a shilling sees" (Macheath, Polly)1:10
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "But pr'ythee, Matt, what is become of thy brother Tom?" (Ben, Matt, Jemmy, Jack, Wat, Robin, Ned, Harry)1:49
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us" (Matt, company)0:54
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Gentlemen, well met" (Macheath, Matt)2:22
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Let us take the road" (Matt)1:46
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "What a fool is a fond wench!" (Macheath)0:32
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "If the heart of a man is deprest with cares" (Macheath, Drawer)2:25
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome" (Macheath)2:18
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Youth's the season made for joys" (Macheath, Jenny, Coaxer, Vixen, Brazen)3:29
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Before the barn door crowing" (Jenny, Macheath, Trull, Tawdry, Slammekin, Vixen)1:51
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" (Jenny, Tawdry, Macheath)1:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "I seize you, sir, as my prisoner" (Peachum, Macheath)0:43
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure" (Macheath, Peachum)0:36
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Look ye, Mrs Jenny" (Vixen, Coaxer, Slammekin, Trull, Jenny)0:58
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Noble Captain, you are welcome" (Lockit, Macheath)1:32
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Man may escape from rope and gun" (Macheath)1:46
    Disc 2
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: You Base Man, You!0:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 27: Thus When A Good Huswife Sees A Rat (A Lovely Lass To A Friar Came)0:53
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 28: How Cruel Are The Traitors ('Twas When The Sea Was Roaring)3:05
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 29: The First Time At The Looking-Glass (The Sun Has Loos'd His Weary Teams)1:09
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: In This Last Affair, Brother Peachum1:01
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 30: When You Censure the Age (How Happy Are We)2:37
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Whence Come You, Hussy?0:35
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 31: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Of A Noble Race Was Shenkin)0:13
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 32: You'll Think E'er Many Days Ensue2:15
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Though The Ordinary Was Out Of The Way Today0:35
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 33: If You At An Office Solicit Your Due (London Ladies)0:41
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Where Is My Dear Husband?0:52
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 34: Thus When The Swallow Seeking Prey (All In The Downs)2:19
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 35: How Happy Could I Be With Either (Have You Heard Of A Frolicksome Ditty)0:50
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 36: I'm Bubbled (Irish Trot)1:00
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 37: Cease Your Funning1:34
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 38: Why How Now, Madam Flirt? (Good-morrow, Gossip)0:38
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Where's My Wench?0:27
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 39: No Power On Earth Can E'er Divide (Irish Howl)1:18
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: I Am Naturally Compassionate, Wife1:33
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 40: I Like The Fox Shall Grieve (The Lass Of Patie's Mill)2:01
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: To Be Sure, Wench1:03
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 41: When Young At The Bar You First Taught Me To Score (If Love's A Sweet Passion)2:42
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 42: My Love Is All Madness & Folly (South Sea Ballad)1:23
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Peachum Then Intends To Outwit Me0:56
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 43: Thus Gamesters United In Friendship Are Found (Packington's Pound)1:11
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Why, Boy, Thou Lookest As If Thou Wert Half Starv'd1:14
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: I Am Sorry, Gentlemen0:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 44: The Modes Of The Court So Common Are Grown (Lillibullero)2:40
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum1:29
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 45: What Gudgeons Are We Men! (Down In The North Country)1:20
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Dear Mrs Dye, Your Servant0:28
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 46: In The Days Of My Youth (A Shepherd Kept Sheep)4:47
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Jealousy, Rage, Love & Fear0:09
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 47: I'm Like A Skiff On The Ocean Tossed (One Evening, Having Lost My Way)1:15
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Dear Madam, Your Servant0:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 48: When A Wife's In Her Pout (Now Roger, I'll Tell Thee, Because Thou'rt My Son)2:08
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 49: A Curse Attends That Woman's Love (O Bessy Bell)1:23
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 50: Among The Men, Coquets We Find (Would Fate To Me Belinda Give)1:29
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 51: Come, Sweet Lass (Come, Sweet Lass)1:00
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: All This Wheedling Of Lucy Cannot Be For Nothing0:20
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Come, Miss Polly0:51
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Set Your Heart To Rest, Captain0:32
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 52: Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes(The Last Time I Went O'er The Moor)1:45
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 53: Which Way Shall I Turn Me? (Tom Tinker's My True Love)0:59
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 54: When My Hero In Court Appears (I Am A Poor Shepherd Undone)1:14
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 55: When He Holds Up His Hand (Ianthe The Lovely)1:40
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 56: Our Selves, Like The Great, To Secure A Retreat (A Cobbler There Was)1:27
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 57: The Charge Is Prepar'd (Bonny Dundee)1:20
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Follow Them, Filch, To The Court1:07
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 58: O Cruel, Cruel, Cruel Case! (Happy Groves)3:18
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 67: Since Laws Were Made Tor Ev'ry Degree (Green Sleeves)1:02
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: For My Having Broke Prison1:02
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: My Dear Lucy, My Dear Polly0:30
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 68: Would I Might Be Hang'd! (All You That Must Take A Leap)1:49
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: But, Honest Friend1:21
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: So, It Seems, I Am Not Left To My Choice0:38
    The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 69: Thus I Stand Like The Turk (Lumps Of Pudding)1:40

    The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera

    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    The Beggar's Opera: Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry"0:54
    The Beggar's Opera: Introduction, Overture4:30
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 1 "Through all the employments of life"1:55
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 2 "'Tis woman seduces all mankind"2:07
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, Women are bitter bad judges... / no. 3 "If any wench Venus' girdle wear"1:33
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 4 "If Love the virgin's heart invade"2:06
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 5 "A Maid is like the golden ore"1:24
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "I know as well as any of the fine ladies..." / no. 6 "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre"2:26
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 7 "Our Polly is a sad slut!"1:14
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 8 "Can love be controlled by advice?"1:13
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "The girl shows such a readiness..." / no. 9 "O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed""2:34
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 10 "I, like a ship in storms, was tossed"0:49
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 11 "A fox may steal your hens, sir"1:33
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 12 "O ponder well, be not severe" / no. 13 "The turtle thus with plaintive crying"2:44
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 14 (Melodrama) "Now I am a wretch indeed!" / "Pretty Polly say"2:57
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 15 "My heart was so free"0:32
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 16 "Were I laid on Greenland's coast"1:56
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 17 "O! what pain it is to part!"1:00
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 18 "The miser thus a shilling sees"2:54
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "And now our scene changes..." / no. 19 "Fill ev'ry glass"1:57
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Success attend you!" / no. 20 "Let us take the road"1:38
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 21 "If the heart of a man is depressed with cares"2:14
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you're welcome!" / no. 22 "Youth's the season made for joys"4:21
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "It is your own choice..." / no. 23 "Before the barn-door crowing"1:00
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "But to be sure, sir..." / no. 24 "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" / no. 25 "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure"2:25
    Disc 2
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Noble Captain, you are welcome once more" / no. 26 "Man may escape from rope and gun"3:50
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 27 "Thus when a good woman sees a rat"0:44
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "It is the pleasure of all you fine men..." / no. 28 "How cruel are the traitors"1:55
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 29 "The first time at the looking-glass"1:06
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Fortune, be with you Lucy"0:29
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Such language, brother!" / no. 30 "When you can censure the age"0:47
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 31 "Is then his fate decreed, sir?"2:18
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "O Macheath! I will stay with thee till death..." / no. 32 "Thus when the swallow"1:48
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Shall I not claim my own?" / no. 33 "How happy I could be with either"1:12
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself" / no. 34 "Cease your funning"3:03
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 35 "Why how now, Madam Flirt!"0:52
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 36 "No power on earth can e'er divide"1:47
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But all scores have a reckoning"0:44
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear sir, mention not my education..." / no. 37 "When young at the bar"2:53
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 38 "Ungrateful Macheath!"1:26
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 39 "Thus gamesters united in friendship"1:38
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And Macheath, at liberty and at large..." / no. 40 "The modes of the Court"2:47
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And those two good old friends"0:22
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Bring us then more liquor!" / no. 41 "What Gudgeons are we men!"1:38
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 42 "In the days of my youth"2:31
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Jealously, rage, love and fear..." / no. 43 "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed"2:31
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 44 "A curse attends a woman's love"1:29
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But perhaps he hath a heart not capable of it" / no. 45 "Among the men coquets we find"0:38
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 46 "Come, sweet lass"1:06
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "What do I see! Oh! Macheath again in custody!!" / no. 47 "Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes"1:41
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 48 "Which way shall I turn me"0:39
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear, dear father, sink the evidence..." / no. 49 "When my hero in court appears"1:48
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Oh sir, if Peachum's heart is hardened..." / no. 50 "When he holds up his hand"1:57
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 51 "Ourselves, like the great"0:38
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "We are ready, sir, to conduct you to the Old Bailey!" / no. 52 "The charge is prepared"1:58
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 53 "O cruel, cruel case!"5:14
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 54 "Would I might be hanged!"2:36
    The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 55 "Thus I stand like the Turk"1:51