The Beggar's opera : original songs & airs = L'Opéra des gueux : chansons & airs originaux.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Gay, John, 1685-1732.

Kwella, Patrizia, performer.

Elliott, Paul, 1950- performer.

Barlow, Jeremy, 1939- performer.

Broadside Band, performer.

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Ballad operas--Excerpts.

Ballad operas.

Ballads, English--Great Britain.

Ballads, English.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Excerpts.

Sound recordings.

Songs.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (45 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in.

12 in.

Other Title:

Opéra des gueux.

Place of Publication:

Saint-Michel de Provence : Harmonia Mundi France, [1982]

System Details:

analog

33 1/3 rpm

microgroove

stereo

Contents:

Cold and raw : Air III. Stingo, or the Oil of Barley / from Playford's Dancing master ; The farmer's daughter (Cold and raw) / A song from Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to purge melancholy ; Beggar's opera version : If any wench Venus's girdle wear ; Up in the morning early / set for violin and continuo by William McGibbon in his Collection of Scots Tunes, 1742 (6:12)

Over the hills and far away : Air XVI. Jocky's lamentation / from Pills to purge melancholy ; Beggar's opera version : Were I laid, on Greenland's coast ; Over the hills and far away / melody from an American MS of country dance tunes ; The wind has blown my plaid away / flageolet tablature in Drexel MS, New York Public Library (2:54)

Oh, the broom : Air XVIII. The broom o' the Cowdenknowes (How blithe was I) / traditional Scottish song ; Broom, broom, the bonny, bonny broom / extemporised from melody in Playford's Dancing master ; Beggar's opera version : The miser thus a shilling sees (4:58)

Would you have a young virgin : Air XXI. Poor Robin's magot / from The dancing master, vol. II ; Would you have a young virgin / words (by Thomas D'Urfey from the play The modern prophets), melody and bass taken from an early 18th century song sheet ; Käre bröder : Nr 5 of Fredmans epistlar / by Carl Michael Bellman ; Beggar's opera version : If the heart of a man is depressed with cares ; Saw ye a lassie of fifteen years / extemporised from melody and variation in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (5:00)

What shall I do to show how much I love her? : Air VI. Beggar's opera version : Virgins are like the fair flower in its luster ; What shall I do to show how much I love her? / music by Henry Purcell, from Thomas Betterton's Dioclesian (3:56)

Fill ev'ry glass : Air XIX. Bergers, écoutez la musique : traditional French carol with extemporised accompaniment ; Begger's opera version : Fill ev'ry glass (2:36)

Charming Billy : Air XXXVII. Charming Billy (When the hills and lofty mountains) / words, melody and bass from early 18th century song sheet, with extemporised mandola obbligato ; Cease your funning : Variations for flute / from James Oswald's Caledonian pocket companion, with extemporised guitar accompaniment ; Beggar's opera version : Cease your funning (4:54)

The lass of Patie's Mill : Air XL. The Lass of Patie's Mill / Melody and bass from William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, words by Allan Ramsay ; Variation on the melody / by James Oswald in A curious collection of Scots tunes ; Beggar's opera version : I like the fox shall grieve (5:28)

Greensleeves : Air LXVII. Lute extemporisation on Passamezzo antico ground ; Greensleeves (Alas! My love you do me wrong) / earliest survivng words (from A handful of pleasant delights, 1584) with earliest version of melody (William Ballet's lute book, late 16th c.) ; Common-time version of melody / by William Cobbold and others, plus guitar and viol extemporisation ; Beggar's opera version : Since laws were made for ev'ry degree ; Medley of three Irish folk versions (A basket of oysters, from Moore's Irish melodies 1834) ; A basket of oysters or Paddy the weaver, from Aird's selection 1788 ; Greensleeves, collected Limerick 1852) (8:17).

Participant:

Patrizia Kwella, soprano ; Paul Elliott, tenor ; The Broadside Band ; Jeremy Barlow, conductor.

Notes:

Excerpts from the ballad opera by John Gay and the popular works from which each was derived.

Title from container.

The settings from the Beggar's opera itself performed from the voice and continuo arrangements by J.C. Pepusch in the third ed. of the opera (1729).

Program notes by Jeremy Barlow and English texts, with French and German translations (19. p.) inserted.

Recorded in March 1981.

Related Work:

Gay, John, 1685-1732. Beggar's opera.

Contains:

Beggar's opera. Selections. 1982.

English dancing master.

D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723. Pills to purge melancholy. Selections; arranged.

McGibbon, William, 1696-1756. Scots tunes (1742). Up in the morning early.

Bellman, Carl Michael, 1740-1795. Fredmans epistlar. Käre Bröder; arranged.

Oswald, James, approximately 1711-1769. Instrumental music. Selections; arranged.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Dioclesian. What shall I do to show how much I love her?

Thomson, William, approximately 1684-approximately 1760. Orpheus Caledonius. Lass of Patie's Mill.

Cold and raw.

Over the hills and far away.

Oh, the broom.

Would you have a young virgin.

What shall I do to show how much I love her?

Fill ev'ry glass.

Charming Billy.

The lass of Patie's Mill.

Greensleeves.

OCLC:

56747626

Publisher Number:

Harmonia Mundi France HM 1071.