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Title: 

The beggar's opera : a ballad opera in three acts

Name: 

John Gay

Other Names: 

Benjamin Britten; Steuart Bedford; Philip Langridge; Anne Collins; Robert Lloyd; Ann Murray; John Rawnsley; Yvonne Kenny; Nuala Willis; Cristopher Gillett; Declan Mulholland

Artistic Coordinator: 

Michael Woolcock, produção.

Performers: 

Com: Philip Langridge (Macheath), Anne Collins (Mrs. Peachum), Robert Lloyd (Peachum), Ann Murray (Polly Peachum), John Rawnsley (Lockit), Yvonne Kenny (Lucy Lockit), Nuala Willis (Mrs. Trapes), Christopher Gillett (Filch), Declan Mulholland (beggar); Steuart Bedford, direcção.

Publication: 

London : Decca, p1993

ISRC: 

argo: 436 850-2

Physical Description:  2 discos (CD) (50, 58 min.) : stereo; 12 cm + 1 folheto
Notes:  O folheto contém o libreto; No do Serviço de Aquisições e Tratamento Técnico
Music Category/Genre:  Classical Music
Call Number:  300.GAY.05237/AB+

 




CD-AUDIO

TRACKS* / CONTENTS:
 Ajuda 
 
Disco 1:
1.
 
Introduction: If poverty be a title to poetry.
 01
Excerto de faixa
2.
 
Overture.
 02
Excerto de faixa
Act one
3.
 
Through all the employments of life.
 03
Excerto de faixa
4.
 
'Tis woman that seduces all mankind.
 04
Excerto de faixa
5.
1. 
Women are bitter bad judges in these cases.
 05
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
If any wench Venus' girdle wear.
 
 
6.
 
If Love the virgin's heart invade.
 06
Excerto de faixa
7.
 
A maid is like the golden ore.
 07
Excerto de faixa
8.
1. 
I know as well as any of the fine ladies.
 08
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Virgins are like the fine flower in its lustre.
 
 
9.
 
Our Polly is a sad slut!.
 09
Excerto de faixa
10.
 
Can love be controlled by advice?.
 10
Excerto de faixa
11.
1. 
The girl shows such a readiness.
 11
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed.
 
 
12.
 
I, like a ship in storms, was tossed.
 12
Excerto de faixa
13.
 
A fox may steal your hens, sir.
 13
Excerto de faixa
14.
1. 
O ponder well, be not severe.
 14
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
The turtle thus, with plaintive crying.
 
 
15.
1. 
Now I am a wretch indeed!.
 15
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Pretty Polly say.
 
 
16.
 
My heart was so free.
 16
Excerto de faixa
17.
 
Were I laid on Greenland's coast.
 17
Excerto de faixa
18.
 
O! what pain it is to part!.
 18
Excerto de faixa
19.
 
The miser thus a shilling sees.
 19
Excerto de faixa
20.
1. 
And now our scene changes.
 20
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Fill ev'ry glass.
 
 
21.
1. 
Success attend you!.
 21
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Let us take the road.
 
 
22.
 
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares.
 22
Excerto de faixa
23.
 
Dear Mrs Coaxer, you're welcome!.
 23
Excerto de faixa
24.
1. 
It is your own choice.
 24
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Before the barn-door crowing.
 
 
25.
1. 
But to be sure, sir.
 25
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike.
 
 
 
3. 
At the tree I shall suffer with plesure.
 
 
 
Disco 2:
Act two:
1.
1. 
Noble Captain, you are welcome once more.
 01
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Man may escape from rope and gun.
 
 
2.
 
Thus when a good housewife sees a rat.
 02
Excerto de faixa
3.
1. 
It is the pleasure of all you fine men.
 03
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
How cruel are the traitors.
 
 
4.
 
The first time at the looking-glass.
 04
Excerto de faixa
5.
 
Fortune be with you, Lucy.
 05
Excerto de faixa
6.
1. 
Such language, brother!.
 06
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
When you censure the age.
 
 
7.
 
Is then his fate decreed, sir?.
 07
Excerto de faixa
8.
1. 
O Macheath! I will stay with thee till death.
 08
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Thus when the swallow.
 
 
9.
1. 
Shall I not claim my own?.
 09
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
How happy could I be with either.
 
 
10.
1. 
Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself.
 10
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Cease your funning.
 
 
11.
 
Why how now, Madam Flirt!.
 11
Excerto de faixa
12.
 
No power on earth can e'er divide.
 12
Excerto de faixa
Act three
13.
 
But all scores have a reckoning.
 13
Excerto de faixa
14.
1. 
Dear sir, mention not my education.
 14
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
When young at the bar.
 
 
15.
 
Ungrateful Macheath!.
 15
Excerto de faixa
16.
 
Thus gamesters united in friendship.
 16
Excerto de faixa
17.
1. 
And Macheath, at liberty and at large.
 17
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
The modes of the Court.
 
 
18.
 
And those two good old friends.
 18
Excerto de faixa
19.
1. 
Bring us then more liquor!.
 19
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
What gudgeons are we men!.
 
 
20.
 
In the days of my youth.
 20
Excerto de faixa
21.
1. 
Jealousy, rage, love and fear.
 21
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed.
 
 
22.
 
A curse attends a woman's love.
 22
Excerto de faixa
23.
1. 
But perhaps he hath a heart not capable of it.
 23
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Among the men coquets we find.
 
 
24.
 
Come, sweet lass.
 24
Excerto de faixa
25.
1. 
What do I see! Oh! Macheath again in custody!!.
 25
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes.
 
 
26.
 
Which way shall I turn me.
 26
Excerto de faixa
27.
1. 
Dear, dear father, sink the evidence.
 27
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
When my hero in court appears.
 
 
28.
1. 
Oh sir, if Peachum's heart is hardened.
 28
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
When he holds up his hand.
 
 
29.
 
Ourselves, like the great.
 29
Excerto de faixa
30.
1. 
We are ready, sir, to conduct you to the Old Bailey.
 30
Excerto de faixa
 
2. 
The charge is prepared.
 
 
31.
 
O cruel, cruel case!.
 31
Excerto de faixa
32.
 
Would I might be hanged!.
 32
Excerto de faixa
33.
 
Thus i stand like the turk.
 33
Excerto de faixa