The British Music Collection: The Beggar’s Opera
AlbumTracklist 108:20
CD 1
| 1 | The Beggar's Opera: Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" Benjamin Britten | 0:54 | |
| 2 | The Beggar's Opera: Introduction, Overture Benjamin Britten | 4:30 | |
| 3 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 1 "Through all the employments of life" Benjamin Britten | 1:55 | |
| 4 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 2 "'Tis woman seduces all mankind" Benjamin Britten | 2:07 | |
| 5 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, Women are bitter bad judges... / no. 3 "If any wench Venus' girdle wear" Benjamin Britten | 1:33 | |
| 6 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 4 "If Love the virgin's heart invade" Benjamin Britten | 2:06 | |
| 7 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 5 "A Maid is like the golden ore" Benjamin Britten | 1:24 | |
| 8 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "I know as well as any of the fine ladies..." / no. 6 "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre" Benjamin Britten | 2:26 | |
| 9 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 7 "Our Polly is a sad slut!" Benjamin Britten | 1:14 | |
| 10 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 8 "Can love be controlled by advice?" Benjamin Britten | 1:13 | |
| 11 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "The girl shows such a readiness..." / no. 9 "O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed"" Benjamin Britten | 2:34 | |
| 12 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 10 "I, like a ship in storms, was tossed" Benjamin Britten | 0:49 | |
| 13 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 11 "A fox may steal your hens, sir" Benjamin Britten | 1:33 | |
| 14 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 12 "O ponder well, be not severe" / no. 13 "The turtle thus with plaintive crying" Benjamin Britten | 2:44 | |
| 15 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 14 (Melodrama) "Now I am a wretch indeed!" / "Pretty Polly say" Benjamin Britten | 2:57 | |
| 16 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 15 "My heart was so free" Benjamin Britten | 0:32 | |
| 17 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 16 "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" Benjamin Britten | 1:56 | |
| 18 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 17 "O! what pain it is to part!" Benjamin Britten | 1:00 | |
| 19 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 18 "The miser thus a shilling sees" Benjamin Britten | 2:55 | |
| 20 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "And now our scene changes..." / no. 19 "Fill ev'ry glass" Benjamin Britten | 1:57 | |
| 21 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Success attend you!" / no. 20 "Let us take the road" Benjamin Britten | 1:38 | |
| 22 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, no. 21 "If the heart of a man is depressed with cares" Benjamin Britten | 2:14 | |
| 23 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you're welcome!" / no. 22 "Youth's the season made for joys" Benjamin Britten | 4:21 | |
| 24 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "It is your own choice..." / no. 23 "Before the barn-door crowing" Benjamin Britten | 1:00 | |
| 25 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 1, "But to be sure, sir..." / no. 24 "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" / no. 25 "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure" Benjamin Britten | 2:25 |
CD 2
| 1 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Noble Captain, you are welcome once more" / no. 26 "Man may escape from rope and gun" Benjamin Britten | 3:50 | |
| 2 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 27 "Thus when a good woman sees a rat" Benjamin Britten | 0:44 | |
| 3 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "It is the pleasure of all you fine men..." / no. 28 "How cruel are the traitors" Benjamin Britten | 1:55 | |
| 4 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 29 "The first time at the looking-glass" Benjamin Britten | 1:06 | |
| 5 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Fortune, be with you Lucy" Benjamin Britten | 0:29 | |
| 6 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Such language, brother!" / no. 30 "When you can censure the age" Benjamin Britten | 0:47 | |
| 7 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 31 "Is then his fate decreed, sir?" Benjamin Britten | 2:18 | |
| 8 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "O Macheath! I will stay with thee till death..." / no. 32 "Thus when the swallow" Benjamin Britten | 1:48 | |
| 9 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Shall I not claim my own?" / no. 33 "How happy I could be with either" Benjamin Britten | 1:12 | |
| 10 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, "Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself" / no. 34 "Cease your funning" Benjamin Britten | 3:03 | |
| 11 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 35 "Why how now, Madam Flirt!" Benjamin Britten | 0:52 | |
| 12 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 2, no. 36 "No power on earth can e'er divide" Benjamin Britten | 1:49 | |
| 13 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But all scores have a reckoning" Benjamin Britten | 0:44 | |
| 14 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear sir, mention not my education..." / no. 37 "When young at the bar" Benjamin Britten | 2:53 | |
| 15 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 38 "Ungrateful Macheath!" Benjamin Britten | 1:26 | |
| 16 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 39 "Thus gamesters united in friendship" Benjamin Britten | 1:38 | |
| 17 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And Macheath, at liberty and at large..." / no. 40 "The modes of the Court" Benjamin Britten | 2:47 | |
| 18 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "And those two good old friends" Benjamin Britten | 0:22 | |
| 19 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Bring us then more liquor!" / no. 41 "What Gudgeons are we men!" Benjamin Britten | 1:38 | |
| 20 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 42 "In the days of my youth" Benjamin Britten | 2:31 | |
| 21 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Jealously, rage, love and fear..." / no. 43 "I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed" Benjamin Britten | 2:31 | |
| 22 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 44 "A curse attends a woman's love" Benjamin Britten | 1:29 | |
| 23 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "But perhaps he hath a heart not capable of it" / no. 45 "Among the men coquets we find" Benjamin Britten | 0:38 | |
| 24 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 46 "Come, sweet lass" Benjamin Britten | 1:06 | |
| 25 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "What do I see! Oh! Macheath again in custody!!" / no. 47 "Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes" Benjamin Britten | 1:41 | |
| 26 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 48 "Which way shall I turn me" Benjamin Britten | 0:39 | |
| 27 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Dear, dear father, sink the evidence..." / no. 49 "When my hero in court appears" Benjamin Britten | 1:48 | |
| 28 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "Oh sir, if Peachum's heart is hardened..." / no. 50 "When he holds up his hand" Benjamin Britten | 1:57 | |
| 29 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 51 "Ourselves, like the great" Benjamin Britten | 0:38 | |
| 30 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, "We are ready, sir, to conduct you to the Old Bailey!" / no. 52 "The charge is prepared" Benjamin Britten | 1:58 | |
| 31 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 53 "O cruel, cruel case!" Benjamin Britten | 5:14 | |
| 32 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 54 "Would I might be hanged!" Benjamin Britten | 2:36 | |
| 33 | The Beggar's Opera: Act 3, no. 55 "Thus I stand like the Turk" Benjamin Britten | 1:51 |