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    John Gay

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    The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera

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    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