Gay-britten: the beggar's opera
(2018, original release: 2016)

eMusic

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Argo, 2018
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 48 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
0028948310142 (sound recording : hoopla Music) MWT12033056, 12033056
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS
"If Poverty Be a Title To Poetry" (0:55) -- Overture (4:30) -- "Through All the Employments Of Life" (1:56) -- "'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind" (2:08) -- "Women Are Bitter Bad Judges In These Cases...If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear" (1:34) -- "If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade" (2:06) -- "A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore" (1:25) -- "I Know As Well As Any Of the Fine Ladies...Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower In Its Lustre" (2:27) -- "Our Polly Is a Sad Slut" (1:14) -- "Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice" (1:14) -- "The Girl Shows Such a Readiness...O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed" (2:35) -- "I, Like a Ship In Storms, Was Tossed" (0:50) -- "A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir" (1:33) -- "O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe...The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying" (2:44) -- "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say" (2:57) -- "My Heart Was So Free" (0:32) -- "Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast" (1:56) -- "O! What Pain It Is To Part!" (1:00) -- "The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees" (2:55) -- "And Now Our Scene Changes...Fill Ev'ry Glass" (1:58) -- "Success Attend You...Let Us Take the Road" (1:38) -- "If the Heart Of a Man Is Depressed With Cares" (2:14) -- "Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome...Youth's the Season Made For Joys" (4:21) -- "It Is Your Own Choice...Before the Barn Door Crowing" (1:00) -- "But To Be Sure...The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike...At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure" (2:26) -- "Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More...Man May Escape From Rope and Gun" (3:51) -- "Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat" (0:45) -- "It Is the Pleasure Of All You Fine Men...How Cruel Are the Traitors" (1:55) -- "The First Time At the Looking-Glass" (1:06) -- "Fortune Be With You, Lucy" (0:29) -- "Such Language, Brother! ...When You Censure the Age" (0:48) -- "Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?" (2:18) -- "O Macheath! I Will Stay With Thee Till Death...Thus When the Swallow" (1:48) -- "Shall I Not Claim My Own?...How Happy Could I Be With Either" (1:12) -- "Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself!...Cease Your Funning" (3:03) -- "Why How Now, Madam Flirt?" (0:52) -- "No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide" (1:49) -- "But All Scores Have a Reckoning" (0:44) -- "Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education...When Young At the Bar" (2:53) -- "Ungrateful Macheath!" (1:26) -- "Thus Gamesters United In Friendship" (1:38) -- "And Macheath, At Liberty and At Large...The Modes Of the Court" (2:47) -- "And Those Two Good Old Friends" (0:23) -- "Bring Us Then More Liquor!...What Gudgeons Are We Men" (1:39) -- "In the Days Of My Youth" (2:31) -- "Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear...I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed" (2:31) -- "A Curse Attends a Woman's Love" (1:30) -- "But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable Of It...Among the Men Coquets We Find" (0:39) -- "Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow" (1:06) -- "What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again In Custody!...Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes" (1:42) -- "Which Way Shall I Turn Me" (0:39) -- "Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence...When My Hero In Court Appears" (1:49) -- "Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened...When He Holds Up His Hand" (1:58) -- "Ourselves, Like the Great" (0:38) -- "We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You To the Old Bailey...The Charge Is Prepared" (1:58) -- "O Cruel, Cruel Case" (5:14) -- "Would I Might Be Hanged!" (2:36) -- "Thus I Stand Like the Turk" (1:51)

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