Gershwin: Porgy And Bess [3 x LP Box, Opera, 1976] London Records ?– OSA 13116

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George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward /
Lorin Maazel, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
?– Porgy And Bess (Opera In Three Acts)

Label:
London Records ?– OSA 13116
Format:
3 × Vinyl, Stereo, LP, 12", Album
Box Set
Country:
US
Released:
1976
Genre:
Classical, Stage & Screen
Style:
Opera

Tracklist

    Porgy And Bess

A     Introduction And Act 1, Scene 1; Catfish Row; A Summer Evening (Start); Jazzbo Brown Blues; Summertime; A Woman Is A Sometime Thing; Here Comes De Honey Man; They Pass By Singin'     28:21
B1     Act 1, Scene 1 (Concl.); Oh Little Stars     8:17
B2     Act 1, Scene 2; Serena's Room - The Following Night; Gone, Gone, Gone; Overflow; My Man's Gone Now     21:06
C     Act 2, Scene 1; Catfish Row - A Month Later; It Takes A Long Pull To Get There; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin; Buzzard Song; Bess, You Is My Woman; Oh, I Can't Sit Down     30:58
D1     Act 2, Scene 2; Kittiwah Island - Evening. The Same Day; I Ain' Got No Shame; It Ain't Necessarily So; What You Want Wid Bess?     15:44
D2     Act 2, Scene 3; Catfish Row - Before Dawn. A Week Later (Start); Oh, Doctor Jesus; Strawberry Woman; Crab Man; I Loves You, Porgy     16:21
E1     Act 2, Scene 3 (Concl.)     2:22
E2     Act 2, Scene 4; Serena's Room - Dawn Of The Following Day; Oh, Hev'nly Father; Oh, De Lawd Shake De Heavens; Oh, Dere's Somebody Knockin' At De Do'; A Red Headed Woman     17:03
E3     Act 3, Scene 1; Catfish Row - The Next Night; Clara, Clara; Death Of Crown     8:55
F1     Act 3 Scene 2; Catfish Row - The Next Afternoon; There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York     13:37
F2     Act 3, Scene 3; Catfish Row - A Week Later; Good Mornin', Sistuh!; Oh, Bess, Oh Where's My Bess; Ow Lawd, I'm On My Way     17:40
Companies, etc.

    Phonographic Copyright (p) – The Decca Record Company Limited

Credits

    Baritone Vocals [Crown] – McHenry Boatwright
    Baritone Vocals [Jake] – Arthur Thompson (2)
    Bass Vocals [Frazier, Jim] – Christopher Deane (2)
    Bass Vocals [Porgy] – Willard White
    Choir – The Cleveland Orchestra Children's Chorus, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
    Chorus Master [Cleveland Orchestra Children's Chorus, The] – Becky Seredick
    Chorus Master [Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, The] – Robert Page
    Composed By – George Gershwin
    Conductor – Lorin Maazel
    Libretto By, Lyrics By – DuBose Heyward
    Liner Notes – Lehman Engel
    Lyrics By – Ira Gershwin
    Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Annie] – Alpha Floyd
    Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Lily] – Isola Jones
    Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Maria, Strawberry Woman] – Barbara Conrad (2)
    Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Serena] – Florence Quivar
    Orchestra – The Cleveland Orchestra
    Performer [Coroner] – Alan Leatherman
    Performer [Detective] – Robert Snook
    Performer [Jasbo Brown], Piano – Joela Jones
    Performer [Mr. Archdale] – John Buck (2)
    Performer [Policeman] – Ralph Neally
    Performer [Scipio] – Donald Zucca
    Soprano Vocals [Bess] – Leona Mitchell
    Soprano Vocals [Clara] – Barbara Hendricks
    Tenor Vocals [Mingo, Undertaker] – James Vincent Pickens
    Tenor Vocals [Peter, Nelson] – William Brown (3)
    Tenor Vocals [Robbins, Crab Man] – Samuel Hagan
    Tenor Vocals [Sporting Life] – François Clemmons*

Notes

32p. booklet included. Made in UK, distributed in US.

- DuBose Heyward
Real Name:
DuBose Edwin Heyward
Profile:
American author, born August 31, 1885; died June 16, 1940. Husband of playwright Dorothy Heyward.

Known for his novel "Porgy", which became later the basis of the opera and musical "Porgy and Bess" (play adaptation by Dorothy Heyward, music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward).

- Lorin Maazel
Real Name:
Lorin Varencove Maazel
Profile:
French-born American conductor, violinist and composer, born 6 March 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, died 13 July 2014 in Castleton Farm, Virginia, USA.

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