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Gershwin: Porgy & Bess (Highlights) [Live]

Angel Blue (soprano), Morgan State University Choir, Kevin Short (bass), Darrin Scott, Chauncey Packer, Alexandra Crichlow, Lester Lynch (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Marin Alsop

The singing is of high quality throughout…With its warmth and allure, Angel Blue’s luscious, soaring soprano sends shivers down the spine…Lester Lynch’s dramatically and vocally engaged Porgy...

Gershwin: Porgy & Bess (Highlights) [Live]

Angel Blue (soprano), Morgan State University Choir, Kevin Short (bass), Darrin Scott, Chauncey Packer, Alexandra Crichlow, Lester Lynch (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Marin Alsop

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The singing is of high quality throughout…With its warmth and allure, Angel Blue’s luscious, soaring soprano sends shivers down the spine…Lester Lynch’s dramatically and vocally engaged Porgy...

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The Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop present a live recording with highlights of Gershwin’s self-proclaimed American “Folk Opera” Porgy and Bess, together with a stellar cast and the Morgan State University Choir. Since its premiere in 1935, Porgy and Bess has been one of the most significant attempts to – following Antonin Dvořák’s famous instruction of 1893 – create American classical music inspired by Afro-American styles such as jazz, spirituals and the blues. It has also proven to be a powerful catalyst for bringing more diverse casts to the opera stage. The hard-knock life at a Charleston waterfront tenement is presented here by an outstanding cast including Lester Lynch (Porgy), Angel Blue (Bess, Clara and Serena), Chauncey Packer (Sportin’ Life) and Kevin Short (Crown, Jake).

Marin Alsop is one of today’s most acclaimed conductors, and the first woman to serve as the head of a major orchestra in the United States, South America, Austria and Britain. The Philadelphia Orchestra is one of the world’s preeminent orchestras. Multi-award-winning soprano Angel Blue is one of the most promising voices of her generation, while Chauncey Packer is arguably one of the greatest and sought-after Sportin’ Life interpreters today. Lester Lynch and Kevin Short both enjoy a flourishing stage career, as well as a vast PENTATONE discography.

Contents and tracklist

Introduction
Track length1:03
Summertime
Track length2:39
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
Track length2:17
Where Is Brudder Robbins? He's a Gone, Gone, Gone
Track length5:24
Overflow
Track length1:34
My Man's Gone Now
Track length4:04
I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'
Track length3:08
Lo' Bess, Goin' to Picnic?
Track length3:48
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Track length5:22
Oh, I Can't Sit Down
Track length2:17
Porgy, I Hates to Go
Track length2:04
It Ain't Necessarily So
Track length4:05
Hear What I Tell You
Track length3:10
What You Want wid Bess?
Track length4:08
Now de Time, oh Gawd — I Loves You, Porgy
Track length7:16
Andantino dolente
Track length1:20
Clara, Clara — Jesus Is Walkin' on de Water
Track length2:20
Cheer Up, Sistuh
Track length0:52
There's a Boat dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
Track length2:25
You Low Crawlin' Hound!
Track length1:57
Thank Gawd I's Home Again!
Track length3:49
Oh Lawd, I'm on My Way
Track length1:43

Awards and reviews

October 2021

The singing is of high quality throughout…With its warmth and allure, Angel Blue’s luscious, soaring soprano sends shivers down the spine…Lester Lynch’s dramatically and vocally engaged Porgy is extremely moving, Chauncey Packer’s ‘Sportin’ Life’ full of striking character – and with a fine tenor to boot.

Jan/Feb 2022

Angel Blue sings powerfully and expressively, with a creamy and often smoky voice somewhere between that of Leontyne Price and Jessye Norman...This new version from Philly is serious, yet it is not solemn or dull.

September 2021

It should appeal to admirers of Angel Blue, probably the finest Bess of our time.
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