Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore

Angela Lansbury, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge & John Gay

Gay: The Beggar's Opera

1 MINUTE AND 47 SECONDS

Album tracklist

1

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Prologue: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry

02:10

2

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Prologue: Overture

04:39

3

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Through All the Employments of Life

02:16

4

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind

03:11

5

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear

03:58

6

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore

01:47

7

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre

02:51

8

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Our Polly Is a Sad Slut

01:57

9

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Can Love Be Controll'd by Advice

02:28

10

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed

03:08

11

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir

02:23

12

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe – The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying

02:58

13

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Pretty Polly Say

02:06

14

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: My Heart Was So Free

01:27

15

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast

02:24

16

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Yes, I Would Go With Thee – O! What Pain It Is to Part!

03:06

17

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: Fill Ev'ry Glass

02:45

18

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Let Us Take the Road

01:50

19

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed With Cares

02:45

20

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Youth's the Season Made for Joys

02:51

21

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Before the Barn Door Crowing

02:01

22

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike

02:09

23

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure

01:37

24

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Man May Escape from Rope and Gun

03:40

25

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat

02:00

26

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: How Cruel Are the Traitors

02:49

27

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: The First Time At the Looking-Glass

01:21

28

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: When You Censure the Age

01:13

29

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?

01:59

30

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: You'll Think, Ere Many Days Ensue

02:24

31

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Thus When the Swallow

01:53

32

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: How Happy Could I Be With Either

02:05

33

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Cease Your Funning

02:00

34

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: Why How Now, Madam Flirt?

01:18

35

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide

02:27

36

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act II: I Like the Fox Shall Grieve

02:15

37

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Introduction – To Be Sure, Wench, You Must've Been

02:18

38

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: When Young At the Bar

02:06

39

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: And so You Have Let Him Escape – My Love Is All Madness

02:06

40

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: The Modes of the Court

01:48

41

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: What Gudgeons Are We Men

01:51

42

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: In the Days of My Youth

04:47

43

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed

02:38

44

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow

02:01

45

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes

01:26

46

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Which Way Shall I Turn Me

00:47

47

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: When My Hero in Court Appears

01:58

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Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: When He Holds Up His Hand

01:35

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Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: The Charge Is Prepared

02:18

50

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: O Cruel, Cruel Case

03:19

51

Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Would I Might Be Hanged!

03:23

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Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: But, Honest Friend, I Hope You Don't Intend

02:07

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Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act III: Thus I Stand Like the Turk

02:38

Gay: The Beggar's Opera

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Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Ed. Bonynge & Gamley), Act I: A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore

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