Masterworks Heritage Edition - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess

Masterworks Heritage Edition - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess

Masterworks Heritage Edition - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-06-16
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Introduction
  2. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Summertime (Clara) (Sportin' Life) (Serena)
  3. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Seems Like These Bones
  4. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1: What, That Chile Ain't Asleep Yet? (Sportin' Life)
  5. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Here Comes De Honey Man (Porgy) (Serena) (Sportin' Life)
  6. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Here Comes Big Boy (Crown) (Serena) (Bess) (Porgy) (Sportin' Life)
  7. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Oh Little Stars, Little Stars (Porgy) (Bess) (Serena) (Crown) (Sportin' Life)
  8. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Wake Up An' Hit It Out (Bess) (Crown) (Sportin' Life) (Porgy)
  9. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2: Where Is Brudder Robbins?...(Gone, Gone, Gone) (Chorus) (Crown) (Sportin' Life) (Porgy)
  10. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2: Come On, Sister, Come On, Brother...(Overflow) (Chorus) (Serena) (Bess)
  11. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2: Um! A Saucer-Burying Setup (Serena) (Porgy) (Chorus)
  12. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2: My Man's Gone Now (Serena) (Chorus)
  13. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2: How De Saucer Stan' Now, My Sister? (Serena) (Porgy)
  14. Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2: Oh The Train Is At The Station...(Leavin' For The Promise' Lan') (Bess) (Chorus)
  15. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Oh, I'm A-Goin' Out To The Blackfish Banks (It Takes A Long Pull To Get There)
  16. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Mus' Be You Mens Forgot About De Picnic (Clara)
  17. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (Porgy) (Serena)
  18. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Mornin', Lawyer (Porgy) (Bess) (Chorus)
  19. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Dey's A Buckra Comin' (Serena) (Clara) (Porgy)
  20. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Look Out, Dat's A Buzzard! (The Buzzard Song) (Porgy) (Chorus)
  21. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: 'Lo Bess. Goin' To The Picnic? (Sportin' Life) (Bess) (Porgy)
  22. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Porgy) (Bess)
  23. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Oh, I Can't Sit Down (Chorus)
  24. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1: What Is De Matter Wid You, Sister? (Bess) (Porgy)
Music CD 2
  1. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2: Ha-da-da, Ha-da-da
  2. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2: It Ain't Necessarily So (Sportin' Life) (Chorus)
  3. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2: Hey There! Holt Yo' Holt
  4. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2: Oh, What You Want Wid Bess (Bess)
  5. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2: Lemme Go, Hear Dat Boat (Bess) (Crown)
  6. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Honey, Dat's All De Breakfast I Got Time For (Bess) (Porgy) (Serena)
  7. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Oh, Doctor Jesus (Serena) (Porgy)
  8. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Oh, Dey's So Fresh An' Fine...(Porgy)
  9. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Now De Time, Oh, Gawd (Porgy) (Bess)
  10. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3: If Dere Warn't No Crown, Bess...(I Loves You Porgy) (Porgy) (Bess)
  11. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Why You Been Out On That Wharf So Long, Clara? (Clara)
  12. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4: Oh, De Lawd Shake De Heavens (Summertime) (Chorus) (Porgy) (Clara) (Serena) (Sportin' Life) (Bess)
  13. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4: You Is A Nice Parcel Of Christmas (Crown) (Serena) (Bess) (Porgy)
  14. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4: How 'Bout Dis One, Big Frien'? (A Red Headed Woman) (Crown) (Chorus)
  15. Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4: Jake's Boat, In De River (Bess) (Clara) (Crown) (Porgy)
  16. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 1: Clara, Clara (Chorus)
  17. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 1: You Low-Lived Skunk (Sportin' Life)
  18. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 1: Summertime (Bess) (Porgy)
  19. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 2: Wait For Us At The Corner, Al (Serena) (Porgy)
  20. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 2: Oh, Gawd! They Goin' Make Him Look On Crown's Face! (Bess) (Sportin' Life)
  21. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 2: There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York (Sportin Life) (Bess)
  22. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Good Mornin', Sistuh! Good Mornin', Brudder (Chorus)
  23. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3: It's Porgy Comin' Home (Porgy) (Chorus)
  24. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Oh, Bess! Where Is My Bess (Porgy) (Serena)
  25. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Bess Is Gone (Porgy) (Serena)
  26. Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3: I'm On My Way...(Oh, Lawd, I'm On My Way) (Porgy) (Chorus)

Music reviews of Masterworks Heritage Edition - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess

Music Review: This is an excellent recording,but....
Rating: 4 Stars

.....there ARE other recordings of the work that are just as good. The only recording which truly comes across as stiff is the 1976 Lorin Maazel-conducted version ---the man simply doesn't seem to understand jazzy rhythms (he positively murders "A Woman Is A Sometime Thing") and Willard White uses his voice considerably better in the Simon Rattle Glyndebourne recording and video. On this 1951 mono recording conducted by Lehman Engel, Lawrence Winters is an excellent Porgy, especially good when you consider that he is using only his voice for characterization,and not his facial expression as well,as Willard White does in the video.

There are three excellent recordings of "Porgy" which give you a true sense of being "onstage" and not just at a recording session--the Houston Opera version,the Glyndebourne version,and this one,which,remarkably,actually IS only a studio production,and not a recording of a staged production. The singers sound remarkably close to the microphone,but much of the orchestral detail so easily heard in the stereo recordings is lost here--in fact,the orchestra sounds almost off-mike while the singing is actually going on. Several performances here do sound more "realistic",because some deliberately untrained voices have been used to lend more atmosphere. One that works especially well is J.Rosamond Johnson as Frazier (from the original Broadway cast) who,by this time had almost totally lost his singing voice and instead uses much of his acting ability to recreate much of his performance.

There is one big drawback to this production and that is that this is the standard performing version used in 1951, with approximately 45 minutes of the opera cut. Some sensitive listeners might notice that because this recording was made in less politically correct times, the Southern African-American dialect is much more exaggerated, and the use of words like "boss" when the inhabitants of Catfish Row address a white person tends to stand out more. At times,the characterizations in this version tend to sound much more like something out of "Gone With The Wind" than in later recordings; in fact, J.Rosamond Johnson's Frazier comes perilously close to sounding like he's doing the old radio program "Amos n' Andy". Otherwise,though,this is a highly enjoyable version.
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