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Gay: The Beggar's Opera

Bob Hoskins (reader), Ian Caddy, Adrian Thompson (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Sarah Walker (mezzo soprano), Bronwen Mills (soprano), Richard Jackson (baritone), Anne Dawson (soprano), Roger Bryson (bass), Ian Honeyman (tenor), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto)

The Broadside Band, Jeremy...

I have never heard, and can't imagine, better performances ... A delightful performance of this timeless opera — American Record Guide
  • Catalogue No: CDA665912
  • Label: Hyperion
  • Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

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Gay: The Beggar's Opera

Work length2:29:27
$103.00
$128.75
  • Karl Morgan (narrator), Roger Bryson (narrator), Alasdair Baker (narrator), Timothy Taylor (narrator), René Linnenbank (narrator), Robert Torday (narrator), Christopher Lemmings (narrator), Roy Rashbrook (tenor), Richard Jackson (baritone), Anne Dawson (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor), Ian Honeyman (tenor), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Bronwen Mills (soprano), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Ian Caddy (narrator), Bob Hoskins (narrator), Claire Rutter (soprano), Caroline Harrison (narrator), Helen Lothian (narrator), Lucy Hayward (narrator), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Polly Kirwan (narrator), Jenevora Williams (narrator)
  • The Broadside Band
  • Jeremy Barlow

Act 1 No 01. Introduction. If poverty be a title to poetry (Beggar / Player)

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Act 1 No 02. Dialogue. Overture

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Act 1 No 03. Air 1 'An old woman clothed in gray'. Through all the employments of life (Peachum)

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Act 1 No 04. Dialogue. Sir, Black Moll hath sent word (Filch / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 05. Air 2 'The bonny gray-ey'd morn' (Clarke). 'Tis woman that seduces all mankind (Filch / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 06. Dialogue. But 'tis now high time to look about me (Peachum)

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Act 1 No 07. Dialogue. What of Bob Booty, husband? (Mrs Peachum / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 08. Air 3 'Cold and raw'. If any wench Venus's girdle wear (Mrs Peachum / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 09. Air 4 'Why is your faithful slave disdain'd?' (attrib. Bononcini). If love the virgin's heart invade (Mrs Peachum / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 10. Dialogue. Never was a man more out the way in an argument (Mrs Peachum)

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Act 1 No 11. Air 5 'Of all the simple things we do'. A maid is like the golden ore (Mrs Peachum)

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Act 1 No 12. Dialogue. Come hither, Filch (Mrs Peachum / Filch)

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Act 1 No 13. Dialogue. I know as well as any of the fine ladies (Polly)

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Act 1 No 14. Air 6 'What shall I do to show how much I love her?' (Purcell). Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre (Polly / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 15. Air 7 'Oh London is a fine town'. Our Poly is a sad slut! (Mrs Peachum / Peachum / Polly)

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Act 1 No 16. Air 8 'Grim king of the ghosts'. Can love be control'd by advice? (Polly / Mrs Peachum / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 17. Air 9 'O Jenny, O Jenny, where hast thou been?'. O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed (Mrs Peachum / Polly)

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Act 1 No 18. Air 10 'Thomas, I cannot'. I like a ship in storms was tossed (Polly / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 19. Dialogue. Dear wife, be a little pacified (Peachum / Mrs Peachum)

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Act 1 No 20. Air 11 'A soldier and a sailor' (Eccles). A fox may steal your hens, sir (Peachum)

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Act 1 No 21. Dialogue. 'Twas only Nimming Ned (Polly / Peachum / Mrs Peachum)

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Act 1 No 22. Air 12 'Now ponder well, ye parents dear'. Oh, ponder well! be not severe (Polly / Mrs Peachum)

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Act 1 No 23. Air 13 'Le printemps rappelle aux armes'. The turtle thus with plaintive crying (Polly / Mrs Peachum / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 24. Dialogue. The thing, husband, must and shall be done (Mrs Peachum / Peachum)

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Act 1 No 25. Dialogue. Now I'm a wretch (Polly)

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Act 1 No 26. Air 14 'Pretty parrot, say' (Freeman). Pretty Polly, say (Macheath / Polly)

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Act 1 No 27. Air 15 'Pray, fair one, be kind' (Leveridge). My heart was so free (Macheath / Polly)

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Act 1 No 28. Air 16 'Over the hills and far away'. Were I laid on Greenland's coast (Macheath / Polly)

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Act 1 No 29. Air 17 'Gin thou wert mine awn thing'. O what pain it is to part! (Polly / Macheath)

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Act 1 No 30. Air 18 'O the broom'. The miser thus a shilling sees (Macheath / Polly)

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Act 2 No 01. Dialogue. But pr'ythee, Matt, what is become of thy brother Tom? (Ben / Matt / Jemmy / Jack / Wat / Robin / Ned / Harry)

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Act 2 No 02. Air 19 'Fill ev'ry glass'. Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us (Matt / company)

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Act 2 No 03. Dialogue. Gentlemen, well met (Macheath / Matt)

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Act 2 No 04. Air 20 'March in Rinaldo' (Handel). Let us take the road (Matt)

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Act 2 No 05. Dialogue. What a fool is a fond wench! (Macheath)

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Act 2 No 06. Air 21 'Would you have a young virgin?'. If the heart of a man is deprest with cares (Macheath / Drawer)

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Act 2 No 07. Dialogue. Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome (Macheath)

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Act 2 No 08. Air 22 'Cotillon'. Youth's the season made for joys (Macheath / Jenny / Coaxer / Vixen / Brazen)

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Act 2 No 09. Air 23 'All in a misty morning'. Before the barn door crowing (Jenny / Macheath / Trull / Tawdry / Slammekin / Vixen)

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Act 2 No 10. Air 24 'When once I lay with another man's wife'. The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike (Jenny / Tawdry / Macheath)

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Act 2 No 11. Dialogue. I seize you, sir, as my prisoner (Peachum / Macheath)

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Act 2 No 12. Air 25 'When first I laid siege to my Chloris'. At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure (Macheath / Peachum)

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Act 2 No 13. Dialogue. Look ye, Mrs Jenny (Vixen / Coaxer / Slammekin / Trull / Jenny)

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Act 2 No 14. Dialogue. Noble Captain, you are welcome (Lockit / Macheath)

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Act 2 No 15. Air 26 'Courtiers, courtiers think it no harm'. Man may escape from rope and gun (Macheath)

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Act 2 No 16. Dialogue. You base man, you! (Lucy)

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Act 2 No 17. Air 27 'A lovely lass to a friar came'. Thus when a good huswife sees a rat (Luch / Macheath)

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Act 2 No 18. Air 28 ''Twas when the sea was roaring' (Handel). How cruel are the traitors (Lucy / Macheath)

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Act 2 No 19. Air 29 'The sun had loos'd his weary teams'. The first time at the looking-glass (Macheath / Lucy)

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Act 2 No 20. Dialogue. In this last affair, brother Peachum (Lockit / Peachum)

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Act 2 No 21. Air 30 'How happy are we' (Barrett). When you censure the age (Lockit / Peachum)

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Act 2 No 22. Dialogue. Whence come you, hussy? (Lockit / Lucy)

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Act 2 No 23. Air 31 'Of a noble race was Shenkin'. Is then his fate decreed, sir? (Lucy / Lockit)

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Act 2 No 24. Air 32. You'll think e'er many days ensue (Lockit)

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Act 2 No 25. Dialogue. Though the ordinary was out of the way today (Lucy / Macheath)

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Act 2 No 26. Air 33 'London ladies'. If you at an office solicit your due (Macheath / Lucy)

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Act 2 No 27. Dialogue. Where is my dear husband? (Polly / Macheath / Lucy)

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Act 2 No 28. Air 34 'All in the Downs' (Sandoni). Thus when the swallow, seeking prey (Polly / Macheath / Lucy)

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Act 2 No 29. Air 35 'Have you heard of a frolicksome ditty?'. How happy could I be with either (Macheath / Polly / Lucy)

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Act 2 No 30. Air 36 'Irish trot'. I'm bubbled (Polly / Lucy / Macheath)

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Act 2 No 31. Air 37. Cease your funning (Polly / Macheath / Lucy)

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Act 2 No 32. Air 38 'Good-morrow, gossip'. Why how now, Madam Flirt? (Lucy / Polly)

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Act 2 No 33. Dialogue. Where's my wench? (Peachum / Polly)

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Act 2 No 34. Air 39 'Irish howl' (Vanbrughe). No power on earth can e'er divide (Polly)

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Act 2 No 35. Dialogue. I am naturally compassionate, wife (Macheath / Lucy)

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Act 2 No 36. Air 40 'The lass of Patie's Mill'. I like the fox shall grieve (Lucy)

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Act 3 No 01. Dialogue. To be sure, wench (Lockit / Lucy)

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Act 3 No 02. Air 41 'If love's a sweet passion' (Purcell). When young at the bar you first taught me to score (Lucy / Lockit)

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Act 3 No 03. Air 42 'South sea ballad'. My love is all madness and folly (Lucy / Lockit)

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Act 3 No 04. Dialogue. Peachum then intends to outwit me (Lockit)

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Act 3 No 05. Air 43 'Packington's pound'. Thus gamesters united in friendship are found (Lockit / Lucy)

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Act 3 No 06. Dialogue. Why, boy, thou lookest as if thou wert half starv'd (Lockit / Filch)

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Act 3 No 07. Dialogue. I am sorry, gentlemen (Macheath)

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Act 3 No 08. Air 44 'Lillibulero' (attrib. Purcell). The modes of the court so common are grown (Macheath / Ben / Matt)

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Act 3 No 09. Dialogue. The coronation account, brother Peachum (Lockit / Peachum)

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Act 3 No 10. Air 45 'Down in the north country'. What gudgeons are we men! (Lockit / Peachum / Servant)

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Act 3 No 11. Dialogue. Dear Mrs Dye, your servant (Peachum / Trapes / Lockit)

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Act 3 No 12. Air 46 'A shepherd kept sheep'. In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove (Trapes / Peachum / Lockit)

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Act 3 No 13. Dialogue. Jealousy, rage, love and fear (Lucy)

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Act 3 No 14. Air 47 'One evening, having lost my way'. I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed (Lucy / Filch)

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Act 3 No 15. Dialogue. Dear madam, your servant (Lucy)

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Act 3 No 16. Air 48 'Now Roger, I'll tell thee, because thou'rt my son'. When a wife's in her pout (Lucy / Polly)

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Act 3 No 17. Air 49 'O Bessy Bell'. A curse attends that woman's love (Polly / Lucy)

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Act 3 No 18. Air 50 'Would fate to me Belinda give' (Wilford). Among the men, coquets we find (Polly / Lucy)

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Act 3 No 19. Air 51 'Come, sweet lass'. Come, sweet lass (Lucy)

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Act 3 No 20. Dialogue. All this wheedling of Lucy cannot be for nothing (Polly)

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Act 3 No 21. Dialogue. Come, Miss Polly (Lucy / Polly)

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Act 3 No 22. Dialogue. Set your heart to rest, captain (Lockit / Peachum / Lucy / Polly)

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Act 3 No 23. Air 52 'The last time I went o'er the moor'. Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes (Polly / Lucy / Macheath / Peachum)

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Act 3 No 24. Air 53 'Tom Tinker's my true love'. Which way shall I turn me? (Macheath / Polly)

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Act 3 No 25. Air 54 'I am a poor shepherd undone'. When my hero in court appears (Polly / Lucy)

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Act 3 No 26. Air 55 'Ianthe the lovely' (Barrett). When he holds up his hand (Lucy / Lockit)

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Act 3 No 27. Air 56 'A cobbler there was' (attrib. Leveridge). Our selves, like the great, to secure a retreat (Lockit / Peachum)

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Act 3 No 28. Air 57 'Bonny Dundee'. The charge is prepar'd; the lawyers are met (Macheath)

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Act 3 No 29. Dialogue. Follow them, Filch, to the court (Polly / Lucy)

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Act 3 No 30. Air 58 to 66. O cruel, cruel, cruel case! (Macheath)

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Act 3 No 31. Air 67 'Green sleeves'. Since laws were made for ev'ry degree (Macheath / Jailer)

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Act 3 No 32. Dialogue. For my having broke prison (Macheath / Matt / Jailer)

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Act 3 No 33. Dialogue. My dear Lucy, my dear Polly (Macheath / Polly / Lucy)

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Act 3 No 34. Air 68 'All you that must take a leap' (Ramondon). Would I might be hang'd! (Lucy / Polly / Macheath / Jailer)

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Act 3 No 35. Dialogue. But, honest friend (Player / Beggar)

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Act 3 No 36. Dialogue. So, it seems, I am not left to my choice (Macheath / company)

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Act 3 No 37. Air 69 'Lumps of pudding'. Thus I stand like the Turk (Macheath)

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