The Beggar´s Opera (John Gay - Pepusch)

Ballad opera by John Gay (1685-1732)
Music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752)
New version by Frederic Austin (1872-1952) / Produced by John Gielgud (April, 1940)
Cast includes: Roy Henderson, Bruce Flegg, Constance Willis, Audrey Mildmay, Linda Gray, Michael Redgrave, Joseph Farrington
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra & Chorus - Michael Mudie, conductor

00:00 Overture (Music by Pepusch)
02:48 Thro' All the Employments of Life (Peachum)
03:48 'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind (Filch)
04:52 If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear (Mrs Peachum)
05:37 Our Polly Is a Sad Slut (Mrs Peachum)
06:12 Can Love Be Controlled by Advice (Polly Peachum)
07:42 O, Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed (Mrs Peachum, Polly Peachum, Peachum)
09:36 A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir (Peachum)
10:12 O Ponder Well (Polly Peachum)
11:48 The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying (Polly Peachum)
13:28 My Heart Was So Free (Macheath)
14:07 Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast (Macheath)
15:22 O What Pain It Is To Part (Macheath)
17:53 Fill Every Glass (Filch)
19:12 Let Us Take the Road (Filch & Chorus)
20:27 If the Heart of a Man (Macheath)
21:48 Youth's the Season (Macheath & Chorus)
24:09 Before the Barn-door Crowing (Jenny Diver & Chorus)
25:04 How Cruel Are the Traitors (Lucy Lockit)
26:30 When You Censure the Age (Peachum, Lockit)
27:26 Is Then His Fate Decreed (Lucy Lockit)
28:18 How Happy I Could Be With Either (Macheath)
29:01 I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled (Polly Peachum, Lucy Lockit)
29:40 Cease Your Funning (Polly Peachum)
31:26 Why, How Now, Madam Flirt (Polly Peachum, Lucy Lockit)
32:07 No Power On Earth (Polly Peachum, Lucy Lockit, Peachum, Lockit)
33:50 Interlude
35:14 When Young At the Bar (Lucy Lockit)
36:40 I'm Like a Skiff (Lucy Lockit)
37:31 Thus Gamesters United (Lockit)
38:38 The Modes of the Court (Filch, Macheath & Chorus)
39:35 In the Days of My Youth (Diana Trapes, Peachum, Lockit)
40:33 A Curse Attends That Woman's Love (Polly Peachum, Lucy Lockit)
41:53 Come, Sweet Lass (Lucy Lockit)
42:26 Hither, Dear Husband (Polly Peachum, Lucy Lockit)
43:48 Which Way Shall I Turn Me (Macheath, Peachum, Lockit)
44:38 The Charge is Prepared (Macheath)
45:56 Dance of the Prisoners in Chains (Pepusch?)
46:58 Would I Might Be Hang'd (Polly Peachum, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
49:07 Finale: Thus I Stand Like the Turk (The Beggar´s Opera Company)

Peachum: Roy Henderson
Lockit: Joseph Farrington
Macheath: Michael Redgrave
Filch: Bruce Flegg
Mrs Peachum: Constance Willis
Polly Peachum: Audrey Mildmay
Lucy Lockit: Linda Gray
Diana Trapes: Alys Brough
Jenny Diver: Ruby Gilchrist

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