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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "My Heart Was So Free"

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The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra,

Philip Langridge,

Steuart Bedford

Collaborators: 15

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Jan 1, 1993

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00:32

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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "My Heart Was So Free"

℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited

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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "My Heart Was So Free"

Ann Murray

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The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

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Philip Langridge

Philip Langridge

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Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Steuart Bedford

Steuart Bedford

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Benjamin Britten

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Christopher Pope

Michael Woolcock

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Steuart Bedford

Steuart Bedford

Arranger

Benjamin Britten

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Christopher Pope

Michael Woolcock

Musicians (2)

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The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

Vocals

Philip Langridge

Philip Langridge

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1

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue: "If Poverty Be a Title To Poetry"

John Gay, Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

2

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue: Overture

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

3

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Through All the Employments Of Life"

Christopher Gillet, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

4

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"

Christopher Gillet, Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

5

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Women Are Bitter Bad Judges In These Cases...If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"

Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

6

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"

Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

7

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore"

Christopher Gillet, Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

8

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "I Know As Well As Any Of the Fine Ladies...Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower In Its Lustre"

Ann Murray, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

9

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Ann Murray, Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

10

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice"

Ann Murray, Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

11

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "The Girl Shows Such a Readiness...O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Ann Murray, Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

12

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "I, Like a Ship In Storms, Was Tossed"

Ann Murray, Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

13

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"

Ann Murray, Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

14

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe...The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying"

Ann Murray, Anne Collins, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

15

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

16

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "My Heart Was So Free"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

17

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

18

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "O! What Pain It Is To Part!"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

19

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

20

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "And Now Our Scene Changes...Fill Ev'ry Glass"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, John Gay, Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

21

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Success Attend You...Let Us Take the Road"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

22

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "If the Heart Of a Man Is Depressed With Cares"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

23

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome...Youth's the Season Made For Joys"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Helen Templeton, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

24

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "It Is Your Own Choice...Before the Barn Door Crowing"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Helen Templeton, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

25

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "But To Be Sure...The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike...At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure"

Debbie Miles-Johnson, Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Helen Templeton, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

26

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More...Man May Escape From Rope and Gun"

John Rawnsley, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

27

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

28

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "It Is the Pleasure Of All You Fine Men...How Cruel Are the Traitors"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

29

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "The First Time At the Looking-Glass"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

30

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Fortune Be With You, Lucy"

John Gay, Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

31

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Such Language, Brother! ...When You Censure the Age"

John Rawnsley, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

32

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

33

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "O Macheath! I Will Stay With Thee Till Death...Thus When the Swallow"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

34

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Shall I Not Claim My Own?...How Happy Could I Be With Either"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

35

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself!...Cease Your Funning"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

36

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

37

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide"

John Rawnsley, Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Ann Murray, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

38

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "But All Scores Have a Reckoning"

John Gay, Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

39

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education...When Young At the Bar"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

40

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Ungrateful Macheath!"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

41

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Thus Gamesters United In Friendship"

John Rawnsley, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

42

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "And Macheath, At Liberty and At Large...The Modes Of the Court"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, John Gay, Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

43

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "And Those Two Good Old Friends"

John Gay, Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

44

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Bring Us Then More Liquor!...What Gudgeons Are We Men"

John Rawnsley, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

45

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "In the Days Of My Youth"

John Rawnsley, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Nuala Willis

46

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear...I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

47

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

48

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable Of It...Among the Men Coquets We Find"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

49

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

50

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again In Custody!...Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

51

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Which Way Shall I Turn Me"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

52

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence...When My Hero In Court Appears"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

53

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Oh Sir, If Peachum's Heart Is Hardened...When He Holds Up His Hand"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

54

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Ourselves, Like the Great"

John Rawnsley, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

55

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "We Are Ready, Sir, To Conduct You To the Old Bailey...The Charge Is Prepared"

John Rawnsley, Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Ann Murray, John Gay, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

56

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "O Cruel, Cruel Case"

John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

57

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Would I Might Be Hanged!"

Ann Murray, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford, Yvonne Kenny

58

The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Thus I Stand Like the Turk"

Aldeburgh Festival Choir, John Gay, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford