Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera by Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Ann Murray, Yvonne Kenny, Robert Lloyd, Anne Collins, John Rawnsley & The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra

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

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

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

John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

Gay: 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, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

Gay: 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, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

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

Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

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

Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

John Rawnsley, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

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

Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

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

Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

Gay: 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, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

Gay: 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, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Ann Murray, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Yvonne Kenny, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

Gay: 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"

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

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Christopher Gillet, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

Gay: 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, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Anne Collins, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

Gay: 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, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gay: 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, Robert Lloyd, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

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

Declan Mulholland, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

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

Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

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

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

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

Philip Langridge, The Aldeburgh Festival Choir, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra & Steuart Bedford