George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess on 2 CDs

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Porgy and Bess

Lawrence Winters, Camilla Williams, Inez Matthews, Avon Long, John Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel Orchestra, Lehman Engel

2 CDs

CD (Compact Disc)

Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

Item will be re-manufactured.
Expected availability end of September 2025

Current price: EUR 19.99

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Artists:: Lawrence Winters, Camilla Williams, Inez Matthews, Avon Long, John Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel Orchestra, Lehman Engel
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 1951
Item number:: 6381331
UPC/EAN:: 0636943128725
Release date:: 30.8.2004

Reviews

U. Schreiber in Scala Nr. 5/98: "Die Ersteinspielung bietet, zumal Lieberson auf Bühnengeräusche im Studio bestand, eine unglaubliche Direktheit des Zugriffs. Wenn auch ein Weißer am Pult stand, merkte man dem Ensemble doch an, daß es in Gershwins Musik eine Reverenz vor der Eigenständigkeit afro-amerikanischer Kultur spürte und sich damit identifizierte."

Disk 1 von 2 (CD)

1 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 1: Introduction
2 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 1: Summertime
3 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 1: Seems like these bones
4 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 1: What, that chile ain't asleep yet?... (A woman is a sometime thing)
5 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 1: Here comes de honey man
6 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 1: Here comes Big Boy!
7 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 1: Oh, little stars
8 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 1: Wake up an' hit it out
9 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 2: Where is brudder Robbins?... (Gone, gone, gone)
10 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 2: Come on, sister, come on, brother... (Overflow)
11 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 2: Um! a saucer-buried setup, I see
12 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 2: My man's gone now
13 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 2: How the saucer stan' now, my sister?
14 Porgy and Bess: Act I Scene 2: Oh, the train is at the station
15 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 1: Oh, I'm a-goin' out to the Blackfish banks
16 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 1: Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'
17 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 1: Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody?
18 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 1: Dey's a Buckra comin'!
19 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 1: Buzzard, keep on flyin'over
20 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 1: 'Lo, Bess. Goin' to the picnic
21 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 1: Bess, you is my woman now
22 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 1: Oh, I can't sit down!
23 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 2: Ha-da-da, ha-da-da
24 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 2: It ain't necessarily so
25 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 2: Hey there! Holt yo' holt
26 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 2: Oh, what you want wid Bess?

Disk 2 von 2 (CD)

1 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 3: Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for
2 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 3: Oh, Doctor Jesus
3 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 3: Oh dey's so fresh an' fine
4 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 3: Now de time, oh Gawd, now de time
5 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 3: I loves you, Porgy
6 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 3: Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?
7 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 4: Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens... (Summertime)
8 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 4: Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'
9 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 4: You is a nice parcel of Christians
10 Porgy and Bess: Act II Scene 4: A red-headed woman makes a choochoo jump its track
11 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 1: Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted
12 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 1: You low-lived skunk
13 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 1: Summertime
14 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 1: Bess, this is Crown
15 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 2: Wait for us at the corner, Al
16 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 2: Oh, Gawd! They goin' make him look on Crown's face!
17 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 2: There's a boat that's leavin' soon for New York
18 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 3: Good mornin', sistuh! Good mornin', brudder!
19 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 3: It's Porgy comin' home
20 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 3: Oh, Bess, oh, where's my Bess
21 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 3: Bess is gone
22 Porgy and Bess: Act III Scene 3: Oh, Lawd, I'm on my way
23 Porgy and Bess: Summertime
24 Porgy and Bess: A woman is a sometime thing
25 Porgy and Bess: My man's gone now
26 Porgy and Bess: Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'
27 Porgy and Bess: Bess, you is my woman now
28 Porgy and Bess: Ha-da-da, ha-da-da... It ain't necessarily so
29 Porgy and Bess: Oh, Bess, oh, where's my Bess
30 Porgy and Bess: Oh, Lawd, I'm on my way