Gershwin: Porgy and Bess [Original 1935 Production Version]
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Conductor: John MauceriOrchestra: Nashville Symphony & Chorus
Performer: Alvy Powell
Performer: Marquita Lister
Performer: Robert Mack
Performer: Nicole Cabell
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Introduction
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Summertime
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Seems like these bones don't give me nothin' but boxcars tonight
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Summertime
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. What, that chile ain't asleep yet?... A woman is a sometime thing (Lissen to yo' da
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Honey man! Honey man! Here come de honey man
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. They pass by singin' (No, no, brudder, Porgy ain't sof on no woman)
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Here comes Big Boy!
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Crown cock-eyed drunk... Oh, little stars
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Oh, stop them! Don't let them fight!
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Wake up an' hit it out. You ain't got no time to lose
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 2. Gone, gone, gone (Where is brudder Robbins?)... Overflow
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 2. Um! A saucer-buryin' setup, I see
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 2. My man's gone now
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 2. How de saucer stan' now, my sister?
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 1. Scene 2. Leavin' for the Promise' Lan' (Oh, the train is at the station)
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 1. It take a long pull to get there (Oh, I'm a-goin' out to the Blackfish banks)
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 1. Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 1. Mornin' lawyer, lookin' for somebody?
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 1. Dey's a Buckra comin'
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 1. 'Lo, Bess, goin' to de picnic?
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 1. Bess, you is my woman now
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 1. Oh, I can't sit down
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 2. Allegretto barbaro / Ha da da, ha da da
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 2. It ain't necessarily so
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 2. Crown! - You know very well dis Crown
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 2. Oh... What you want wid Bess?
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 3. Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 3. Well, if it ain' ole Peter!
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 3. Oh, Doctor Jesus
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 3. Oh dey's so fresh an fine... I'm talkin' about devil crabs
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 3. Porgy, Porgy, dat you there, ain' it?
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 3. I loves you, Porgy
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 3. Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 3. Storm
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 4. Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 4. One of dese mornin's... Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 4. You is a nice parcel of Christians
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 2. Scene 4. Jake's boat in de river, upside down!
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 3. Scene 1. Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 3. Scene 1. Ha ha ha
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 3. Scene 1. Summertime
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 3. Scene 2. Introduction / Wait for us at the corner, Al
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 3. Scene 2. Listen: There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 3. Scene 3. Occupational humoresque / Good mornin'
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 3. Scene 3. It's Porgy comin' home
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 3. Scene 3. Oh, Bess, oh where's my Bess
- Porgy and Bess, opera: Act 3. Scene 3. Where Bess gone?... Oh Lawd, I'm on my way
Music reviews of Gershwin: Porgy and Bess [Original 1935 Production Version]
Music Review: Good Idea... Poorly Sung
Rating: 2 Stars
At the outset let me say that I'm one of those who much prefer the published version of PORGY AND BESS to the "opening night" text; but that aside, recording the original performance text is a worthy endeavor. Unfortunately the recording has been sabotaged by poor singing. The two leads heard here have performed PORGY AND BESS in opera houses on many occasions and inside a theater it's possible to overlook their vocal deficiencies and concentrate on their finely honed characterizations; on a recording, however, what we're left with are ragged voices that don't do justice to the music. While not quite the same text as presented here, Goddard Lieberson's wonderful 1951 recording is much more satisfying and presents the opera in a very similar format (without the "Occupational Humoresque" that opens Act III, Scene 3 on this set--but with "The Buzzard Song," eliminated here). The 1951 recording also boasts the best recorded Porgy in Lawrence Winters. My "desert island" PORGY AND BESS remains the 1977 Houston Grand Opera set capturing the full published version of the score (and the best recorded Bess, Clamma Dale).
Description of Gershwin: Porgy and Bess [Original 1935 Production Version]
This is the first recording of George Gershwin's classic to incorporate the composer's final revisions for the 1935 premiere. Apparently it differs from the original published score though it won't sound all that different to a layman who's heard the versions dating from the 1970s onward, which replaced spoken dialogue with the sung recitatives Gershwin wanted. Musicology aside, there are gains and losses in this new set. The gains are a tighter, more focused narrative line due to the cuts, which amount to about half-an-hour of music. But those cuts are losses too, since they include some familiar and well-loved numbers. The performance is a good one though, if not necessarily preferable to previous recordings by Maazel, DeMain, and Rattle, all of which have their own shortcomings. Alvy Powell makes for a finely honed Porgy, and while one could ask for a bigger-voiced Bess, Marquita Lister sings and acts well. Many of the smaller roles are admirable too, with Lester Lynch scoring as a menacing Crown but Nicole Cabell, the Clara, has a wide vibrato on sustained high notes marring her "Summertime," here performed in the faster tempo of the 1935 score. --Dan DavisGeneral CDs
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