Beggar's Opera/Polly [Cast Recording]

Track Listings
1. Act I: Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower    
2. Act I: Can Love Be Controlled by Advice?    
3. Act I: O Polly, You Might Have Toy'd and Kiss'd    
4. Act I: A Fox May Steal Your Hens    
5. Act I: O Ponder Well    
6. Act I: The Turtle This With Plaintive Crying    
7. Act I: My Heart Was So Free    
8. Act I: Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast    
9. Act I: Oh! What a Pain It Is to Part    
10. Act II: Fill Every Glass - Scott Russell    
11. Act II: Let Us Take the Road    
12. Act II: If the Hear of a Man    
13. Act II: Music to a Dialogue    
14. Act II: Why, How Now Madame Flirt    
15. Act II: Before the Bar Door Crowing    
16. Act II: Man May Escape from Rope and Gun    
17. Act II: Thus a Good House Wife Sees a Rat    
18. Act II: The First Time at the Looking Glass    
19. Act II: Thus Gamesters United in Friendship Are Found    
20. Act II: Thus When the Swallow    
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Beggar's Opera/Polly, Music, John Gay, Frederic Austin, Kingsway Theatre Orchestra, Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) Orchestra, Adrienne Brune, Alfred Heather, Colin Ashdown, Dorothy Smithard, Frederick Ranalow, Gladys Sinclair, Kathlyn Hilliard, Lilian Davies, Lovat Crossley, Nellie Walker, Nonny Lock, Percy Parsons, Phyllis Blackburne, Pitt Chatham, Scott Russell, Stanley Vilven, Sylvia Nelis, Tristan Rawson, Violet Marquesita, Winifred Hare, British Baroque Opera, Classical, Opera, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio, Opera/Operetta Collections, Original Cast Recordings
Beggar's Opera / Polly
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • One stop on the road to immortality
  • Must Stop Ordering When Drinking - Or Maybe I Got Foxed
 Beggar's Opera / Polly
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ASIN: B0000799KV
Release Date: 2003-03-25

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One stop on the road to immortality.......2006-11-19

This is a more than competent CD transfer of acoustic recordings of Sir Nigel Playfair's legendary 1920s revivals of The Beggar's Opera and its sequel Polly. Quite sufficiemt to show why the Beggar;s Opera production, meant to fill a few weeks' gap at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, ran for three years. And while Gay's sequel was like most sequels, not up to the original, this recording is the only source for the second-best ballad opera.

1 out of 5 stars Must Stop Ordering When Drinking - Or Maybe I Got Foxed.......2006-09-02

Right. Can't remember what state of sobriety I was in when I ordered this cd and I may have missed some key clues about its nature. But I was so excited to find anything claiming to relate to Gay's "Polly" (which otherwise seems to have completely disappeared after it was censored in the 18th century - even internet wise) that I bought this cd. Turns out it is a cd version of some music originally recorded in the early 1920's. It is moderately interesting even for someone who is not primarily interested in antigue recordings (aka "scratchy records") because the style may be closer to that of the original performance. (There is no reason to think that common tastes were better in the 18th century than in 1920.) It is certainly different than contemporaneous performances of BO.

Don't mean to be sexist - which I am - but the duets, choreses and male performances seem to be less antigue than the soprano pieces. The broads are simply squeaky. Something to do with frequency loss in early recordings, I expect. On the other hand, the bass songs are equally abrasive and archaic.

Even the notes about "Polly" in this cd are disappointing. No mention of the history of "Polly", no mention of the source for the music. Try googling for a link for Gay and Polly. If you find one, be sure to post - I would love to know.

Unless you are an academic involved with some of the most obscure corners of the history of recorded music, I would forget this one. Instead, root for someone to find and record Gay's Polly. And buy a more modern interpretation of the Beggar's Opera. I have certainly heard antique recordings restored more vibrantly than this cd - but I would think that depends to a large extent on the quality of what you have to start with.

The only reason I gave it 2 stars (for some reason, Amazon refuses to record my change from 1 to 2 stars; but that is computers for you) instead of 1 was because of I love the melodies of the songs so much. But I will also admit that it is possible that Gay have been lucky that Polly was suppressed - the melodies and lyrics are not nearly as good as BO. On the other hand, this cd is so antique that is an unfair basis for judgment, But what the H!
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    Tracks:

    1. 'The Beggar's Opera': Overture
    2. 'The Beggar's Opera': Thro'All The Employement Of Life
    3. 'The Beggar's Opera': 'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
    4. 'The Beggar's Opera': If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
    5. 'The Beggar's Opera': Our Polly Is A Sad Slut
    6. 'The Beggar's Opera': Can Love B e Controlled By Advice
    7. 'The Beggar's Opera': O, Polly, You Might Have Toyed And Kissed
    8. 'The Beggar's Opera': A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
    9. O Ponder Well
    10. The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
    11. 'The Beggar's Opera': My Heart Was So Free
    12. 'The Beggar's Opera': Where I Laid On Greenland's Coast; O What pain It Is To Part
    13. 'The Beggar's Opera': Fill Every Glass; Let Us Take The Road
    14. 'The Beggar's Opera': If The Heart Of A Man
    15. 'The Beggar's Opera': Youth's The Season
    16. 'The Beggar's Opera': Before The Barn-Door Crowing
    17. 'The Beggar's Opera': How Cruel Are The Traitors
    18. 'The Beggar's Opera': When You Censure The Age
    19. 'The Beggar's Opera': Is Then His Fate Decreed?
    20. 'The Beggar's Opera': How Happy Could I Be With Either
    21. 'The Beggar's Opera': I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled
    22. 'The Beggar's Opera': Cease Your Funning
    23. 'The Beggar's Opera': Why, How Now, Madam Flirt
    24. 'The Beggar's Opera': No Power On Earth
    25. 'The Beggar's Opera': Interlude
    26. 'The Beggar's Opera': When Young At The Bar
    27. 'The Beggar's Opera': I'm Like A Skiff
    28. 'The Beggar's Opera': Thus Gamesters United
    29. 'The Beggar's Opera': The Modes Of The Court
    30. 'The Beggar's Opera': In The Days Of My Youth
    31. 'The Beggar's Opera': A Curse Attends That Woman's Love
    32. 'The Beggar's Opera': Come, Sweet Lass
    33. 'The Beggar's Opera': Hither, Dear Husband
    34. 'The Beggar's Opera': Which Way Shall I Turn Me?
    35. 'The Beggar's Opera': The Charge Is Prepared
    36. 'The Beggar's Opera': Dance Of Prisoners In Chains
    37. 'The Beggar's Opera': Would I Might Be Hang'd
    38. 'The Beggar's Opera': Finale: Thus I Stand Like The Turk
    39. Lionel and Clarissa: Medley
    Weill: Songs de L'Opéra de quat' sous
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