Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

VARIOUS ARTISTS

21 SONGS • 1 STUNDE UND 14 MINUTEN • OCT 31 1991

1

Porgy and Bess (highlights): [Act I:] Introduction...Jasbo Brown Blues (Jasbo Brown, Chorus)

Wayne Marshall/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

04:21

2

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Summertime (Clara, Chorus)

Harolyn Blackwell/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

03:14

3

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Give him to me...A woman is a sometime thing...Here come de honey man (Jake, Mingo, Sporting Life, Chorus, Baby, Clara, Robbins, Peter, Lily, Maria)

Bruce Hubbard/Damon Evans/Linda Thompson/Harolyn Blackwell/Johnny Worthy/Mervin Wallace/Maureen Braithwaite/Marietta Simpson/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

03:41

4

Porgy and Bess (highlights): My man's gone now (Serena, Chorus)

Cynthia Clarey/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

03:59

5

Porgy and Bess (highlights): How de saucer stan' now, my sister? (Undertaker, Serena, Jake, Porgy)

Sir Willard White/Cynthia Clarey/Bruce Hubbard/Autris Paige/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

02:04

6

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Oh, the train is at the station (Bess, Chorus)

Cynthia Haymon/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

04:10

7

Porgy and Bess (highlights): [Act II:] Oh, I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks...It take a long pull to get there (Jake, Chorus)

Bruce Hubbard/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

03:27

8

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic...Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin' (Annie, Jake, Clara, Porgy, Chorus, Serena, Maria)

Sir Willard White/Damon Evans/Cynthia Clarey/Bruce Hubbard/Marietta Simpson/Harolyn Blackwell/Paula Ingram/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

03:26

9

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Lissen there, what I tells you...I hates yo' struttin' style (Maria, Serena, Sporting Life)

Damon Evans/Cynthia Clarey/Marietta Simpson/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

02:33

10

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Buzzard keep on flyin' over (Porgy, Chorus)

Sir Willard White/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

03:09

11

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Honey, we sure goin' strutt our stuff today!...Bess, you is my woman now (Jake, Porgy, Bess)

Sir Willard White/Cynthia Haymon/Bruce Hubbard/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

06:15

12

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Oh, I can't sit down (Chorus, Maria, Bess, Porgy)

Sir Willard White/Cynthia Haymon/Marietta Simpson/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

04:19

13

Porgy and Bess (highlights): It ain't necessarily so...Shame on all you sinners (Sporting Life, Chorus, Serena, Maria)

Damon Evans/Cynthia Clarey/Marietta Simpson/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

06:06

14

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Oh, what you want wid Bess? (Bess, Crown)

Cynthia Haymon/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

04:18

15

Porgy and Bess (highlights): A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump its track (Crown, Chorus, Clara, Bess)

Cynthia Haymon/Gregg Baker/Harolyn Blackwell/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

02:26

16

Porgy and Bess (highlights): [Act III:] Listen: there's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York (Sporting Life, Bess)

Cynthia Haymon/Damon Evans/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

04:26

17

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Dem white folks sure ain' put nuttin' over on this baby (Porgy, Lily)

Sir Willard White/Maureen Braithwaite/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

04:01

18

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Here Mingo, what's de matter wid you all? (Porgy)

Sir Willard White/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

01:42

19

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Maria, Maria, where's Bess? (Porgy, Maria, Serena)

Sir Willard White/Cynthia Clarey/Marietta Simpson/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

03:12

20

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Bess is gone (Lily, Porgy, Serena, Mingo, Maria, Chorus)

Maureen Braithwaite/Sir Willard White/Cynthia Clarey/Barrington Coleman/Marietta Simpson/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

01:49

21

Porgy and Bess (highlights): Oh Lawd, I'm on my way (Porgy, Chorus)

Sir Willard White/Glyndebourne Chorus/Craig Ruttenberg/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

01:34

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