Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera

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   Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue: "If Poverty Be a Title To Poetry"
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   Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue: Overture
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   Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Through All the Employments Of Life"
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   Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind"
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   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"
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   Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade"
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   Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore"
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   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"
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   Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice"
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    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"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "I, Like a Ship In Storms, Was Tossed"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe...The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "My Heart Was So Free"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "O! What Pain It Is To Part!"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "And Now Our Scene Changes...Fill Ev'ry Glass"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Success Attend You...Let Us Take the Road"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "If the Heart Of a Man Is Depressed With Cares"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome...Youth's the Season Made For Joys"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "It Is Your Own Choice...Before the Barn Door Crowing"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "But To Be Sure...The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike...At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More...Man May Escape From Rope and Gun"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "It Is the Pleasure Of All You Fine Men...How Cruel Are the Traitors"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "The First Time At the Looking-Glass"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Fortune Be With You, Lucy"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Such Language, Brother! ...When You Censure the Age"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "O Macheath! I Will Stay With Thee Till Death...Thus When the Swallow"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Shall I Not Claim My Own?...How Happy Could I Be With Either"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself!...Cease Your Funning"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Why How Now, Madam Flirt?"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "But All Scores Have a Reckoning"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education...When Young At the Bar"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Ungrateful Macheath!"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Thus Gamesters United In Friendship"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "And Macheath, At Liberty and At Large...The Modes Of the Court"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "And Those Two Good Old Friends"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Bring Us Then More Liquor!...What Gudgeons Are We Men"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "In the Days Of My Youth"
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    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"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"
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    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"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow"
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    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"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Which Way Shall I Turn Me"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence...When My Hero In Court Appears"
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    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"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Ourselves, Like the Great"
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    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"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "O Cruel, Cruel Case"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Would I Might Be Hanged!"
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    Gay: The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Thus I Stand Like the Turk"
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