Musical Playwrights With Peggy Reynolds.
2: John Gay. John Gay 's friends liked him because he was funny, because he enjoyed a good dinner and because he would do anything to help someone in trouble. They often forgot that he was a successful poet and author of one of the most popular plays of the 18th century - The Beggar's Opera. Gay was not good with money and was himself almost a beggar when he wrote this work, but it made his fortune and has never gone out of the repertoire. Gay The Beggar's Opera (excerpts) Broadside Band, conductor Jeremy Barlow Handel Jephtha (excerpts) English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Handel Esther (excerpts)
Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
Handel 'Twas When the Seas Were
Roaring
Patrizia Kwella (soprano),
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
SOUNDING THE CENTURY