Performer: John Gay
Genre: Classical
Album: The Beggar's Opera
Released: 1977
Style: Opera
MP3 version ZIP size: 1227 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1910 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1475 mb
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 896
Other Formats: MP4 RA WAV MPC VQF ADX AC3

Tracklist

Side 1 - Act 1 (Part 1) including
A1	Overture
A2	Thro' All The Employments Of Life
A3	'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
A4	If Love The Virgin's Heart Invade
A5	A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore
A6	Virgins Are Like The Fair Flower
A7	Our Polly Is A Sad Slut (Duet)
A8	Can Love Be Controlled By Advice?
A9	O Polly, You Might Have Toyed And Kissed (Duet)
A10	I Like A Ship In Storms, Was Tossed
Side 2 - Band 1 - Act 1 (Conclusion) including
B1	A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
B2	O Ponder Well
B3	Pretty Polly, Say (Duet)
B4	My Heart Was So Free
B5	Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast (Duet)
B6	O What Pain It Is To Part (Duet)
Band 2 - Act II (Part 1) Including
B7	Fill Every Glass (Solo And Chorus)
B8	Let Us Take The Road (Solo And Chorus)
B9	If The Heart Of A Man
B10	Youth's The Season (Chorus And Dance)
B11	Before The Barn-Door Crowing (Solo And Chorus)
B12	At The Tree I Shall Suffer
Side 3 - Act II (Conclusion) Including
C1	Man May Escape From Rope And Gun
C2	How Cruel Are The Traitors
C3	Thus Gamesters United In Friendship Are Found (Duet)
C4	When You Censure The Age (Duet)
C5	How Happy Could I Be With Either
C6	I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled (Duet)
C7	Cease Your Funning
C8	Melodrama
Side 4 - Act III Including
D1	The Modes Of The Court So Common Are Grown (Soli And Chorus)
D2	In The Day Of My Youth (Trio)
D3	Entrance Of Lucy
D4	I'm Like A Skiff On The Ocean Tost
D5	Come Sweet Lass
D6	Hither, Dear Husband (Duet)
D7	Which Way Shall I Turn Me?
D8	The Charge Is Prepared
D9	Macheath's Soliloquy
D10	Would I Might Be Hang'd (Trio)
D11	Thus I Stand Lke The Turk (Solo And Chorus)

Credits

• Arranged By – Frederic Austin, Johann Christoph Pepusch
• Baritone Vocals – Ian Wallace , John Cameron
• Bass Vocals – Owen Brannigan
• Conductor – Sir Malcolm Sargent
• Contralto Vocals – Constance Shacklock, Monica Sinclair
• Engineer – Edward Huntley
• Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Anna Pollak
• Orchestra – Pro Arte Orchestra*
• Producer – Denis Carey
• Recording Supervisor – Lawrance Collingwood
• Soprano Vocals – Elsie Morison
• Tenor Vocals – Alexander Young
• Voice Actor – Aubrey Morris, Daphne Heard, Eric Porter, John Neville, Paul Rogers , Rachel Roberts , Robert Hardy , Ronald Fraser, Zena Walker

Notes

Performed in English by a double cast of Actors (Members of the Old Vic company) and Singers
Recorded in 1955
Printer's code "7707", indicating printing date of July 1977

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ESDW 704, OC 155-03224/5	John Gay, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra*	John Gay, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra* - The Beggar's Opera ‎(2xLP)	His Master's Voice, His Master's Voice	ESDW 704, OC 155-03224/5	UK	1977
TC2-ESDW 704	John Gay / Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra*	John Gay / Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra* - The Beggar's Opera ‎(Cass, Album, Dou)	His Master's Voice	TC2-ESDW 704	UK	Unknown
CLP 1052/1053	John Gay, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra*	John Gay, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra* - The Beggar's Opera ‎(2xLP, Mono)	His Master's Voice	CLP 1052/1053	UK	1955
CSD 1516, CSD 1517, PCSD. 1516, PCSD. 1517	John Gay, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra*	John Gay, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra* - The Beggar's Opera ‎(2xLP)	His Master's Voice, His Master's Voice, Odeon, Odeon	CSD 1516, CSD 1517, PCSD. 1516, PCSD. 1517	UK	1977
SIB-6023	John Gay, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra*	John Gay, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra* - The Beggar's Opera ‎(2xLP + Box)	Seraphim	SIB-6023	US	Unknown