The Beggar's Opera

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Disc 1

• 1 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Prologue: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry 2:10
• 2 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Prologue: Overture 4:38
• 3 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Through All the Employments of Life 2:16
• 4 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind 3:10
• 5 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear 3:57
• 6 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore 1:46
• 7 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre 2:50
• 8 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Our Polly Is a Sad Slut 1:56
• 9 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice 2:27
• 10 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed 3:07
• 11 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir 2:23
• 12 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe – The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying 2:58
• 13 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Pretty Polly Say 2:05
• 14 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: My Heart Was So Free 1:26
• 15 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast 2:24
• 16 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Yes, I Would Go With Thee – O! What Pain It Is to Part! 3:06
• 17 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Fill Ev'ry Glass 2:44
• 18 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Let Us Take the Road 1:50
• 19 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed With Cares 2:45
• 20 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Youth's the Season Made for Joys 2:50
• 21 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Before the Barn Door Crowing 2:00
• 22 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike 2:08
• 23 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure 1:36

Disc 2

• 1 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Man May Escape from Rope and Gun 3:39
• 2 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat 1:59
• 3 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: How Cruel Are the Traitors 2:48
• 4 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: The First Time At the Looking-Glass 1:20
• 5 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: When You Censure the Age 1:12
• 6 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? 1:58
• 7 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: You'll Think, Ere Many Days Ensue 2:23
• 8 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Thus When the Swallow 1:52
• 9 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: How Happy Could I Be With Either 2:04
• 10 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Cease Your Funning 2:00
• 11 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Why How Now, Madam Flirt? 1:18
• 12 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide 2:26
• 13 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: I Like the Fox Shall Grieve 2:14
• 14 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Introduction – To Be Sure, Wench, You Must've Been 2:18
• 15 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: When Young At the Bar 2:06
• 16 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: And so You Have Let Him Escape – My Love Is All Madness 2:05
• 17 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: The Modes of the Court 1:47
• 18 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: What Gudgeons Are We Men 1:50
• 19 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: In the Days of My Youth 4:47
• 20 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed 2:37
• 21 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow 2:01
• 22 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes 1:25
• 23 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Which Way Shall I Turn Me 0:46
• 24 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: When My Hero in Court Appears 1:58
• 25 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: When He Holds Up His Hand 1:34
• 26 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: The Charge Is Prepared 2:18
• 27 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: O Cruel, Cruel Case 3:18
• 28 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Would I Might Be Hanged! 3:23
• 29 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: But, Honest Friend, I Hope You Don't Intend 2:07
• 30 The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Thus I Stand Like the Turk 2:37

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