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Offer,Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Sierra Tocco, Jeremy White, Robert Anthony Gardiner, Aidan Smith, Miranda Westcott, Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Leah-Marian Jones, Tom Handle, Ben Thapa, Kathryn Jenkin, Paul Hopwood, Siobháin Gibson, Clare McCaldin, Katherine Paterson, Thomas Barnard, Bernadette Lord, Bryn Evans, Alison Place,...

Release Date: 1st Oct 2009
Catalogue No: CHAN10548W
Label: Chandos
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

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Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Introduction

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Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Sirena Tocco

If Poverty be a title to Poetry (Beggar)

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Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43

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Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia

Overture

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Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I

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Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Aidan Smith, Jeremy White, Robert Anthony Gardiner, Tom Randle, Ben Thapa, Kathryn Jenkin, Miranda Westcott, Susan Bickley, Leah-Marian Jones, Paul Hopwood, Siobháin Gibson, Thomas Barnard, Clare McCaldin, Katherine Paterson, Bryn Evans, Bernadette Lord, Mark Saberton, Alison Place

Through all the employments of life (Peachum)

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Sir, black Moll hath sent word (Flich, Peachum)

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Tis Woman that seduces all Mankind (Filch, Peachum)

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But it is now high time to look about me (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)

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Women indeed are bitter bad judges … ev'ry Man handsom who is going to the Camp - if any wench Venus' Girdle wear (Mrs Peachum)

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Was Captain Macheath here this morning? (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)

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If Love the Virgin's Heart invade (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)

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A Maid is like the Golden ore (Mrs Peachum)

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Come hither, Filch (Mrs Peachum, Filch)

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I know as well as any of the fine ladies - Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre (Polly, Peachum)

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Our Polly is a sad slut! (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly, Omnes)

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Can Love be controlled by Advice? (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)

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The girl shows such a readiness - O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Omnes)

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I, like a Ship in storms, was tossed (Polly, Mrs Peachum)

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A fox may steal your hens, Sir (Peachum, Mrs Peachum, Polly)

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O ponder well! Be not severe (Polly, Mrs Peachum)

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The Turtle thus with plaintive crying, her Lover dying (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)

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Now I'm a wretch indeed! (Polly, Macheath, Omnes)

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My heart was so free (Macheath, Polly)

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Were I laid on Greenland's coast (Macheath, Polly, Omnes)

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O! what pain it is to part! (Polly, Macheath)

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The Miser thus a shilling sees (Macheath, Polly)

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But pr'thee, Mat, what is become of thy brother Tom? (Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Jemmy Twitcher, Nimming Ned, Harry Paddington, Wat Dreary)

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Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us (Gentlemen of the Road)

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Gentlemen, well met (Macheath, Mat of the Mint)

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I shall wish myself with you - Let us take the road (Macheath, Harry Paddington, Gentlemen of the Road)

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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares (Macheath)

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Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome - Youth's the season made for joys (Macheath, Ladies of the Town)

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Now pray, ladies, take your places (Macheath, Jenny Diver, Mrs Coaxer)

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It is your own choice - Before the barn-door crowing (Jenny Diver, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky Tawdry, Ladies of the Town)

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But to be sure, Sir - The Gamesters and Lawyers are jugglers alike (Jenny Diver, Betty Doxy, Macheath, Peachum, Ladies of the Town)

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The gentlemen, ladies, lodges in Newgate - Constables, wait upon the Captain to his lodgings - At the Tree I shall suffer with pleasure (Peachum, Macheath)

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Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II

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Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Tom Randle, Donald Maxwell, Sarah Fox, Jeremy White, Leah-Marian Jones

Noble Captain, you are welcome (Lockit, Macheath)

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Man may escape from rope and gun (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)

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Thus when a good Housewife sees a rat (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)

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It is the pleasure of all you fine men - How cruel are the traytors (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)

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The first time at the looking glass (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)

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In this last affair, brother Peachum, we are agreed (Lockit, Peachum)

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Such language, brother, anywhere else - When you censure the age (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)

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Is then his fate decreed, Sir? (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)

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Though the Chaplain was out of the way to-day (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Polly)

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Thus when the Swallow seeking prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)

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If women's tongues can cease for an answer - I will not! - How happy could I be with either (Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Polly)

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Cease your funning (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Omnes)

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Why how now, Madam Flirt! (Lucy Lockit, Polly, Peachum, Lockit)

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Now power on earth can e'er divide (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes)

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Britten: The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III

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Christian Curnyn, City of London Sinfonia, Sarah Fox, Sirena Tocco, Susan Bickley, Donald Maxwell, Tom Randle, Jeremy White, Leah-Marian Jones, Robert Anthony Gardiner, Aidan Smith, Frances McCafferty, Ben Thapa

To be sure, wench, you must have been aiding and abetting (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)

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Dear Sir, mention not my education (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)

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Ungrateful Macheath! (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)

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Thus Gamesters united in friendship are found (Lockit)

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Our scene doth represent a Gaming House - The modes of the Court so common are grown (Beggar, Macheath, Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Omnes)

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The Coronation account, brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum, Mrs Trapes)

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In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove (Mrs Trapes, Lockit, Peachum)

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In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove (Mrs Trapes, Beggar)

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Jealousy, rage, love and fear (Lucy Lockit)

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I have the Rat's-bane ready (Lucy Lockit, Filch, Polly)

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A curse attends a woman's love (Polly, Lucy Lockit)

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When I was forced from him (Polly, Lucy Lockit)

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Come, sweet lass (Lucy Lockit, Polly)

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Now every glimmering of happiness is lost (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Peachum)

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Which way shall I turn me, how can I decide? (Macheath, Polly)

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Dear, dear Sir, sink the material evidence (Polly)

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How then can you be a tyrant to me - When he holds up his hand arraigned for his life (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)

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Ourselves, like the Great, to secure a retreat (Lockit, Peachum)

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We are ready, Sir… - … to conduct you to the Old Bailey! (Lockit, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Macheath, Peachum, Omnes)

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O cruel, cruel case! (Macheath, Jailer)

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Would I might be hanged! (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)

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But surely you don't intend that Macheath shall really be executed? (Mat of the Mint, Beggar, Ben Budge, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Lockit, Peachum)

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Thus I stand like a Turk, with his doxies around (Macheath, Mrs Peachum, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Mrs Trapes, Lockit, Ladies of the Town, Gentlemen of the Road)

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