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Special offer. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans, Cynthia Clarey, Harolyn Blackwell, Bruce Hubbard, Marietta Simpson & Gregg Baker

Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Glyndebourne's epoch-making production, taken to the recording studio two years later, helped cement the work's reputation as one of the greatest 20th-century operas. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…
  • Release Date: 5th Sep 2005
  • Catalogue No: 4768362
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: Great Recordings of the Century
  • Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

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  • Wayne Marshall (piano), Harolyn Blackwell (soprano), Johnny Worthy (tenor), Bruce Hubbard (bass-baritone), Barrington Coleman (tenor), Curtis Watson (bass-baritone), Cynthia Clarey (soprano), Marietta Simpson (mezzo-soprano), Maureen Braithwaite (soprano), Mervin Wallace (tenor), Damon Evans (tenor), Willard White (baritone), Cynthia Haymon (soprano), Gregg Baker (bass-baritone), Ron Travis (vocals), Alan Tilvern (vocals), Autris Paige (bass-baritone), Paula Ingram (mezzo-soprano), William Johnson (bass-baritone), Linda Thompson (soprano), Ted Maynard (vocals), Colenton Freeman (vocals), Camelia Johnson (soprano), Billy J. Mitchell (vocals)
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra, Craig Ruttenberg, Glyndebourne Chorus
  • Sir Simon Rattle

Introduction

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Summertime

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Oh, nobody knows when the Lawd is goin' to call

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Give him to me...Lissen to yo' daddy warn you...A woman is a sometime thing

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Here's the ol' crap shark...No, no, brudder

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Here come the Big Boy

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Six to make

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Jesus, he's killed him!...That you, Sportin' Life?

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Where is brudder Robbins?...Come on, sister!

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Overflow, overflow

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A saucer-burying set-up, I see

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My man's gone now

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How de saucer stan' now, my sister?

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Oh, the train is at the station

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Oh, I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks

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Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic...Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'

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Lissen there, what I tells you...I hates yo' struttin' style

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Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody?

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Boy! Come here, boy!

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Buzzard keep on flyin' over

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'Lo Bess, goin' to picnic?

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Porgy and Bess, Act II, Scene 1: Honey, we sure goin' strut our stuff today!...Bess, you is my woman now

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Porgy and Bess, Act II, Scene 1: Oh, I can't sit down

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I ain't got no shame

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It ain't necessarily so...Shame on you sinners

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Crown!

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Oh, what you want wid Bess?

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Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for

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Take yo' han's off me

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Oh, doctor Jesus

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Oh dey's so fresh an' fine

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Porgy, Porgy, dat you there ain't it?

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I wants to stay here

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Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?

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Doctor Jesus

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One of these mornings you goin' to rise up singin'

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Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'

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You is a nice parcel of Christians!

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A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump its track

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All right, I'm goin' out to get Clara...Oh, Doctor Jesus

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Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted...You low-life skunk, ain' you got no shame

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Summertime....

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Wait for us at the corner

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Come out here, both of you

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Oh, Lawd, what I goin' do?....Oh, Gawd! They goin' make him look on Crown's face!

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Listen: there's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York

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Introduction

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Good mornin', sistuh!... It's Porgy comin' home

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Dem white folks sure ain' put nuttin' over on this baby

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Here Mingo, what's de matter wid you all?

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Where's Bess?

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Bess is gone

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Oh Lawd, I'm on my way

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