Britten: The Beggar's Opera

01	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Introduction: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry (Beggar)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:17
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
02	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43: Overture	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	04:24
	Composers: Benjamin Britten
03	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Through All the Employments of Life (Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:18
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
04	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Sir, Black Moll Hath Sent Word (Flich, Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:42
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
05	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind (Filch, Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:17
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
06	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But It is Now High Time to Look About Me (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:13
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
07	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Women Indeed Are Bitter Bad Judges … Ev'ry Man Handsom Who is Going to the Camp - If Any Wench	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:53
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
08	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Was Captain Macheath Here This Morning? (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:54
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
09	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:52
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
10	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A Maid is Like the Golden Ore (Mrs. Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:29
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
11	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Come Hither, Filch (Mrs. Peachum, Filch)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:59
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
12	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I Know as Well as Any of the Fine Ladies - Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre (Poll	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:23
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
13	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Our Polly is a Sad Slut! (Mrs. Peachum, Peachum, Polly, Omnes)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:19
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
14	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Can Love Be Controlled by Advice? (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:17
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
15	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Girl Shows Such a Readiness - O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:17
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
16	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:53
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
17	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir (Peachum, Mrs. Peachum, Polly)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:45
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
18	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O Ponder Well! Be Not Severe (Polly, Mrs. Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:49
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
19	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying, Her Lover Dying (Polly, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:51
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
20	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now I'm a Wretch Indeed! (Polly, Macheath, Omnes)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	03:02
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
21	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: My Heart Was So Free (Macheath, Polly)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:48
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
22	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast (Macheath, Polly, Omnes)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:59
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
23	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O! What Pain It is to Part! (Polly, Macheath)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:55
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
24	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees (Macheath, Polly)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:25
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
25	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But Pr'thee, Mat, What is Become of Thy Brother Tom? (Mat of the Mint, Jemmy Twitcher, Nimming	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:41
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
26	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Fill Ev'ry Glass, for Wine Inspires Us (Gentlemen of the Road)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:49
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
27	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Gentlemen, Well Met (Macheath, Mat of the Mint)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:37
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
28	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I Shall Wish Myself With You - Let Us Take the Road (Macheath, Harry Paddington, Gentlemen of t	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:49
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
29	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If the Heart of a Man is Depressed With Cares (Macheath)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:05
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
30	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Dear Mrs. Coaxer, You Are Welcome - Youth's the Season Made for Joys (Macheath, Ladies of the T	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	04:35
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
31	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now Pray, Ladies, Take Your Places (Macheath, Jenny Diver, Mrs. Coaxer)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:54
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
32	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: It is Your Own Choice - Before the Barn-door Crowing (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the Town, Macheath	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:32
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
33	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But to Be Sure, Sir - the Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike (Jenny Diver, Ladies of the	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:39
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
34	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Gentlemen, Ladies, Lodges in Newgate - Constables, Wait Upon the Captain to His Lodgings -	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:47
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
01	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Noble Captain, You Are Welcome (Lockit, Macheath)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:52
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
02	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Man May Escape From Rope and Gun (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	03:28
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
03	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:44
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
04	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: It is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men - How Cruel Are the Traytors (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:32
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
05	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: The First Time at the Looking Glass (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:13
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
06	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: In This Last Affair, Brother Peachum, We Are Agreed (Lockit, Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:45
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
07	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Such Language, Brother, Anywhere Else - When You Censure the Age (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:08
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
08	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:42
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
09	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Though the Chaplain Was Out of the Way To-day (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Polly)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:09
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
10	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When the Swallow Seeking Prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:54
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
11	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: If Women's Tongues Can Cease for an Answer - I Will Not! - How Happy Could I Be With Either -	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:26
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
12	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Cease Your Funning (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Omnes)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:48
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
13	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Why How Now, Madam Flirt! (Lucy Lockit, Polly, Peachum, Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:05
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
14	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Now Power on Earth Can E'er Divide (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:00
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
15	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: To Be Sure, Wench, You Must Have Been Aiding and Abetting (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:49
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
16	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	03:19
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
17	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ungrateful Macheath! (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:06
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
18	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus Gamesters United in Friendship Are Found (Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:43
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
19	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Our Scene Doth Represent a Gaming House - the Modes of the Court So Common Are Grown (Beggar,	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:43
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
20	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum, Mrs. Trapes)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:14
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
21	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: In the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Lockit, Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:21
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
22	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: In the Days of My Youth I Could Bill Like a Dove (Mrs. Trapes, Beggar)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:39
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
23	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear (Lucy Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:07
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
24	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: I Have the Rat's-bane Ready (Lucy Lockit, Filch, Polly)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:12
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
25	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: A Curse Attends a Woman's Love (Polly, Lucy Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:38
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
26	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: When I Was Forced From Him (Polly, Lucy Lockit)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:02
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
27	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Come, Sweet Lass (Lucy Lockit, Polly)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:55
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
28	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Now Every Glimmering of Happiness is Lost (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:45
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
29	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Which Way Shall I Turn Me, How Can I Decide? (Macheath, Polly)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:41
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
30	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear, Dear Sir, Sink the Material Evidence (Polly)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:53
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
31	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: How Then Can You Be a Tyrant to Me - When He Holds Up His Hand Arraigned for His Life (Lucy L	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	02:00
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
32	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ourselves, Like the Great, to Secure a Retreat (Lockit, Peachum)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	00:45
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
33	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: We Are Ready, Sir… - … to Conduct You to the Old Bailey! - The Charge is Prepared; the Lawyer	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:54
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
34	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: O Cruel, Cruel Case! (Macheath, Jailer)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	05:10
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
35	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Would I Might Be Hanged! (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:59
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
36	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: But Surely You Don't Intend That Macheath Shall Really Be Executed? (Mat of the Mint, Beggar,	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:18
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten
37	The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus I Stand Like a Turk, With His Doxies Around (Macheath, Mrs, Peachum, Peachum, Ladies of	Christian Curnyn	Britten: The Beggar's Opera	01:53
	Writer: John Gay - Tyrone Guthrie / Composers: Benjamin Britten

01

The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Introduction: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry (Beggar)

Christian Curnyn

01:17

02

The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43: Overture

Christian Curnyn

Britten: The Beggar's Opera

04:24

03

The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Through All the Employments of Life (Peachum)