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    John Gay

    John Gay

    219 songs
    Total 219 songs
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    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" (Beggar, Player)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:57
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue / OvertureThe Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)3:13
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Through all the employments of life" (Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:59
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue "Sir, Black Moll hath sent word" (Filch, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:30
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "'Tis woman that seduces all mankind" (Filch, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:43
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "But 'tis now high time to look about me" (Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)2:05
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "What of Bob Booty, husband?" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:35
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air "If any wench Venus's girdle wear" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)3:45
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "If love the virgin's heart invade" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)3:01
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Never was a man more out the way in an argument" (Mrs Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:23
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A maid is like the golden ore" (Mrs Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:42
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Come hither, Filch" (Mrs Peachum, Filch)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)2:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "I know as well as any of the fine ladies" (Polly)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:31
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre" (Polly, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)2:01
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Our Poly is a sad slut!" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)2:35
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Can love be control'd by advice?" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)2:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed" (Mrs Peachum, Polly)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:41
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "I like a ship in storms was tossed" (Polly, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:14
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Dear wife, be a little pacified" (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:53
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A fox may steal your hens, sir" (Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:06
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "'Twas only Nimming Ned" (Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:49
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Oh, ponder well! be not severe" (Polly, Mrs Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:19
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The turtle thus with plaintive crying" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:44
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "The thing, husband, must and shall be done" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:49
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Now I'm a wretch" (Polly)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:34
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Pretty Polly, say" (Macheath, Polly)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:14
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "My heart was so free" (Macheath, Polly)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:10
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" (Macheath, Polly)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:13
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O what pain it is to part!" (Polly, Macheath)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)2:50
    The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The miser thus a shilling sees" (Macheath, Polly)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:10
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "But pr'ythee, Matt, what is become of thy brother Tom?" (Ben, Matt, Jemmy, Jack, Wat, Robin, Ned, Harry)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:49
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us" (Matt, company)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:54
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Gentlemen, well met" (Macheath, Matt)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)2:22
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Let us take the road" (Matt)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:46
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "What a fool is a fond wench!" (Macheath)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:32
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "If the heart of a man is deprest with cares" (Macheath, Drawer)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)2:25
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome" (Macheath)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)2:18
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Youth's the season made for joys" (Macheath, Jenny, Coaxer, Vixen, Brazen)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)3:29
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Before the barn door crowing" (Jenny, Macheath, Trull, Tawdry, Slammekin, Vixen)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:51
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" (Jenny, Tawdry, Macheath)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "I seize you, sir, as my prisoner" (Peachum, Macheath)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:43
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure" (Macheath, Peachum)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:36
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Look ye, Mrs Jenny" (Vixen, Coaxer, Slammekin, Trull, Jenny)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:58
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Noble Captain, you are welcome" (Lockit, Macheath)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:32
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Man may escape from rope and gun" (Macheath)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:46
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: You Base Man, You!The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:17
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 27: Thus When A Good Huswife Sees A Rat (A Lovely Lass To A Friar Came)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)0:53
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 28: How Cruel Are The Traitors ('Twas When The Sea Was Roaring)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)3:05
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 29: The First Time At The Looking-Glass (The Sun Has Loos'd His Weary Teams)The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:09
    The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: In This Last Affair, Brother PeachumThe Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)1:01