Porgy and Bess

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. Introduction: Jasbo Brown Solo / Chorus

  George Gershwin
  4:16
• 2
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Summertime" (Clara, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  3:27
• 3
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Oh, nobody knows when the Lawd is goin' to call" (Mingo, Chorus, Sporting Life, Jake, Serena, Robbins, Jim, Clara, Crap Shooters (Male Chorus))

  George Gershwin
  6:19
• 4
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Give him to me" - "Lissen to yo' daddy warn you" - "A woman is a sometime thing" (Jake, Mingo, Sporting Life, Chorus, Baby, Clara, Robbins, Peter, Lily, Maria)

  George Gershwin
  3:28
• 5
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Here's the ol' crap shark!" - "No, no, brudder" (Jake, Mingo, Porgy, Sporting Life, Robbins, Jim, Maria, Serena)

  George Gershwin
  4:16
• 6
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Here comes Big Boy!" (Mingo, Jake, Jim, Crown, Porgy, Serena, Bess, Robbins, Chorus, Sporting Life)

  George Gershwin
  7:08
• 7
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Six to make!" (Sporting Life, Jim, Jake, Mingo, Porgy, Crown, Robbins, Maria, Serena, Bess, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  4:05
• 8
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Jesus, he's killed him!" - "That you, Sportin' Life?" (Jake, Serena, Bess, Crown, Sporting Life, Maria)

  George Gershwin
  4:59
• 9
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Where is brudder Robbins?" - "Come on, sister!" (solo soprano, Chorus, solo baritone, Serena, Maria, Bess, solo soprano, Jake, Peter, Porgy, Clara)

  George Gershwin
  4:53
• 10
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Overflow, overflow" (Chorus, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  0:58
• 11
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "A saucer-burying set-up, I see" (Detective, Serena, Lily, Peter, Porgy, Policeman, Maria, Jake, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  3:49
• 12
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "My man's gone now" (Serena, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  3:58
• 13
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "How de saucer stan' now, my sister?" (Undertaker, Serena, Jake, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  2:05
• 14
  Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Oh, the train is at the station" (Bess, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  4:04
• CD 2
• 1
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks" (Jake, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  3:27
• 2
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic" - "Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'" (Annie, Jake, Clara, Porgy, Chorus, Serena, Maria)

  George Gershwin
  3:25
• 3
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Lissen there, what I tells you" - "I hates yo' struttin' style" (Maria, Serena, Sporting Life)

  George Gershwin
  2:27
• 4
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody?" (Maria, Frazier, Porgy, Bess, Chorus, Lily, Bass voice, Scipio, Annie, Serena)

  George Gershwin
  4:58
• 5
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Boy! Come here, boy!" (Archdale, Scipio, Clara, Serena, Mingo, Jake, Porgy, Frazier, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  2:39
• 6
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Buzzard keep on flyin' over" (Porgy, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  3:02
• 7
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "'Lo Bess, goin' to picnic?" (Sporting Life, Bess, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  2:57
• 8
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Honey, we sure goin' strut our stuff today!" - "Bess, you is my woman now" (Jake, Porgy, Bess)

  George Gershwin
  6:14
• 9
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I can't sit down" (Chorus, Maria, Bess, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  4:14
• 10
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "I ain't got no shame" (Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  2:24
• 11
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "It ain't necessarily so" - "Shame on all you sinners" (Sporting Life, Chorus, Serena, Maria)

  George Gershwin
  5:58
• 12
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "Crown!" (Bess, Crown)

  George Gershwin
  4:06
• 13
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "Oh, what you want wid Bess?" (Bess, Crown)

  George Gershwin
  4:20
• 14
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for" (Jake, Fisherman, Jim, Nelson, Maria, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  2:49
• 15
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Take yo' han's off me" (Bess, Serena, Maria, Peter, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  2:28
• 16
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Oh, doctor Jesus" (Serena, Peter, Porgy, Lily)

  George Gershwin
  2:12
• 17
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Oh dey's so fresh an' fine" (Strawberry woman, Peter, Woman, Annie, Crab man, Porgy, Maria)

  George Gershwin
  5:01
• 18
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Porgy, Porgy, dat you there, ain't it?" (Bess, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  2:42
• 19
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "I wants to stay here" (Bess, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  3:55
• 20
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?" (Maria, Clara)

  George Gershwin
  2:46
• CD 3
• 1
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Solo sextet, Chorus, Porgy, Clara, Serena, Sporting Life)

  George Gershwin
  3:45
• 2
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "One of dese mornings you goin' to rise up singin'" (Clara, Chorus, Porgy, Bess)

  George Gershwin
  1:51
• 3
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'" (Chorus, Peter, Maria, Lily, Mingo, Other woman)

  George Gershwin
  1:22
• 4
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "You is a nice parcel of Christians!" (Crown, Serena, Bess, Porgy, Woman, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  4:05
• 5
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump its track" (Crown, Chorus, Clara, Bess)

  George Gershwin
  2:17
• 6
  Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "All right, I'm goin' out to get Clara" - "Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Crown, Porgy, Solo sextet, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  2:31
• 7
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene I. "Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted" - "You low-life skunk, ain' you got no shame" (Chorus, Sporting Life, Maria)

  George Gershwin
  6:22
• 8
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene I. "Summertime" - Porgy kills Crown (Bess, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  4:15
• 9
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "Wait for us at the corner" (Detective, Annie, Serena, Other woman, Coroner)

  George Gershwin
  3:44
• 10
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "Come out here, both of you" (Detective, Coroner, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  2:25
• 11
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "Oh, Lawd, what I goin' do?" - "Oh, Gawd! They goin' make him look on Crown's face!" (Porgy, Bess, Sporting Life, Policeman)

  George Gershwin
  3:41
• 12
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "Listen: there's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York" (Sporting Life, Bess)

  George Gershwin
  4:27
• 13
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. Introduction

  George Gershwin
  2:25
• 14
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Good mornin', sistuh!" - "It's Porgy comin' home" (Solo tenor, solo mezzo-soprano, Chorus, Children, Mingo, Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  3:29
• 15
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Dem white folks sure ain' put nuttin' over on this baby" (Porgy, Lily)

  George Gershwin
  4:00
• 16
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Here Mingo, what's de matter wid you all?" (Porgy)

  George Gershwin
  1:48
• 17
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Where's Bess?" (Porgy, Maria, Serena)

  George Gershwin
  3:05
• 18
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Bess is gone" (Lily, Porgy, Serena, Mingo, Maria, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  2:01
• 19
  Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Oh Lawd, I'm on my way" (Porgy, Chorus)

  George Gershwin
  1:21

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Release credits

• Alan Tilvern
  spoken vocals [1.11, 3.9-10]
• Autris Paige
  baritone vocals [13]
• Barrington Coleman
  tenor vocals [3.3, 3.14, 3.18, 1.3-7, 2.5]
• Billy J. Mitchell
  spoken vocals [9-10]
• Bruce Hubbard
  baritone vocals [1.3-9, 1.11, 1.13, 2.1-2, 2.5, 2.8, 2.14]
• Camellia Johnson
  mezzo-soprano vocals [17]
• Colenton Freeman
  tenor vocals [14]
• Craig Rutenberg
  chorus master [1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.9-12, 1.14, 3.1-7, 3.14, 3.18-19, 2.1-2, 2.4-6, 2.9-11, 2.14]
• Curtis Watson
  baritone vocals [2.14, 1.3, 1.5-7]
• Cynthia Clarey
  soprano vocals [1.3, 1.5-9, 1.11-13, 2.2-5, 2.11, 2.15-16, 3.1, 3.4, 3.9, 3.17-18]
• Cynthia Haymon
  soprano vocals [3.2, 3.4-5, 3.8, 3.11-12, 3.17-18, 1.6-9, 1.14, 2.4, 2.7-9, 2.12-13, 2.15, 2.18-19]
• Damon Evans
  tenor vocals [1.3-8, 2.3, 2.7, 2.11, 3.1, 3.7, 3.11-12]
• David R. Murray
  producer
• Glyndebourne Chorus
  choir vocals [3.1-7, 3.14, 3.18-19, 1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.9-12, 1.14, 2.1-2, 2.4-6, 2.9-11, 2.14]
• Gregg Baker
  baritone vocals [3.4-6, 1.6-8, 2.12-13]
• Harolyn Blackwell
  soprano vocals [1.2-3, 1.9, 3.1-2, 3.5, 2.2, 2.5, 2.20]
• Johnny Worthy
  tenor vocals [3-7]
• Linda Thompson
  soprano vocals [4-5]
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
  performing orchestra
• Marietta Simpson
  contralto vocals [2.2-4, 2.9, 2.11, 2.14-15, 2.17, 1.4-5, 1.7-9, 1.11, 3.3, 3.7, 3.17-18], mezzo-soprano vocals [2.11, 3.18]
• Mark Vigars
  engineer
• Maureen Brathwaite
  mezzo-soprano vocals [18], soprano vocals [3.3, 3.15, 3.18, 2.4, 2.16, 1.4, 1.11]
• Mervin Wallace
  tenor vocals [2.15-17, 1.4, 1.9, 1.11, 3.3]
• Paula Ingram
  mezzo-soprano vocals [3.9, 2.2, 2.4]
• Ron Travis
  spoken vocals [1.11, 3.11]
• Simon Rattle
  conductor
• Ted Maynard
  spoken vocals [5]
• Tony Harrison
  assistant
• Wayne Marshall
  piano [1]
• Willard White
  bass vocals [18], bass-baritone vocals [3.1-2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10-11, 3.14-19, 2.2, 2.4-9, 2.15-19, 1.5-7, 1.9-11, 1.13]
• William Johnson
  baritone vocals [4-5]
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Issues

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  P
  Porgy and Bess

  3x CD
  1989
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  Porgy and Bess

  3x CD
  19 June 1997
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  Porgy and Bess

  3x CD (Great Recordings of the Century)
  2005