Porgy and Bess

Album by George Gershwin & Willard White & Cynthia Haymon & Damon Evans & Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Simon Rattle

Porgy and Bess is an opera by American composer George Gershwin, first performed in 1935. Blending elements of jazz, blues and classical music within a folk-opera framework, it represents Gershwin's late-career effort to synthesise African American musical idioms with operatic and theatrical forms.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. Introduction: Jasbo Brown Solo / Chorus
    4:16
  2. 2.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Summertime" (Clara, Chorus)
    3:27
  3. 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))
    6:19
  4. 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)
    3:28
  5. 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)
    4:16
  6. 6.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Here comes Big Boy!" (Mingo, Jake, Jim, Crown, Porgy, Serena, Bess, Robbins, Chorus, Sporting Life)
    7:08
  7. 7.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Six to make!" (Sporting Life, Jim, Jake, Mingo, Porgy, Crown, Robbins, Maria, Serena, Bess, Chorus)
    4:05
  8. 8.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Jesus, he's killed him!" - "That you, Sportin' Life?" (Jake, Serena, Bess, Crown, Sporting Life, Maria)
    4:59
  9. 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)
    4:53
  10. 10.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Overflow, overflow" (Chorus, Porgy)
    0:58
  11. 11.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "A saucer-burying set-up, I see" (Detective, Serena, Lily, Peter, Porgy, Policeman, Maria, Jake, Chorus)
    3:49
  12. 12.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "My man's gone now" (Serena, Chorus)
    3:58
  13. 13.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "How de saucer stan' now, my sister?" (Undertaker, Serena, Jake, Porgy)
    2:05
  14. 14.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Oh, the train is at the station" (Bess, Chorus)
    4:04

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks" (Jake, Chorus)
    3:27
  2. 3.
    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)
    3:25
  3. 4.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Lissen there, what I tells you" - "I hates yo' struttin' style" (Maria, Serena, Sporting Life)
    2:27
  4. 5.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody?" (Maria, Frazier, Porgy, Bess, Chorus, Lily, Bass voice, Scipio, Annie, Serena)
    4:58
  5. 6.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Boy! Come here, boy!" (Archdale, Scipio, Clara, Serena, Mingo, Jake, Porgy, Frazier, Chorus)
    2:39
  6. 7.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Buzzard keep on flyin' over" (Porgy, Chorus)
    3:02
  7. 8.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "'Lo Bess, goin' to picnic?" (Sporting Life, Bess, Porgy)
    2:57
  8. 9.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Honey, we sure goin' strut our stuff today!" - "Bess, you is my woman now" (Jake, Porgy, Bess)
    6:14
  9. 10.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I can't sit down" (Chorus, Maria, Bess, Porgy)
    4:14
  10. 11.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "I ain't got no shame" (Chorus)
    2:24
  11. 12.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "It ain't necessarily so" - "Shame on all you sinners" (Sporting Life, Chorus, Serena, Maria)
    5:58
  12. 13.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "Crown!" (Bess, Crown)
    4:06
  13. 14.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "Oh, what you want wid Bess?" (Bess, Crown)
    4:20
  14. 15.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for" (Jake, Fisherman, Jim, Nelson, Maria, Chorus)
    2:49
  15. 16.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Take yo' han's off me" (Bess, Serena, Maria, Peter, Porgy)
    2:28
  16. 17.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Oh, doctor Jesus" (Serena, Peter, Porgy, Lily)
    2:12
  17. 18.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Oh dey's so fresh an' fine" (Strawberry woman, Peter, Woman, Annie, Crab man, Porgy, Maria)
    5:01
  18. 19.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Porgy, Porgy, dat you there, ain't it?" (Bess, Porgy)
    2:42
  19. 20.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "I wants to stay here" (Bess, Porgy)
    3:55
  20. 21.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?" (Maria, Clara)
    2:46

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Solo sextet, Chorus, Porgy, Clara, Serena, Sporting Life)
    3:45
  2. 4.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "One of dese mornings you goin' to rise up singin'" (Clara, Chorus, Porgy, Bess)
    1:51
  3. 5.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'" (Chorus, Peter, Maria, Lily, Mingo, Other woman)
    1:22
  4. 6.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "You is a nice parcel of Christians!" (Crown, Serena, Bess, Porgy, Woman, Chorus)
    4:05
  5. 7.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump its track" (Crown, Chorus, Clara, Bess)
    2:17
  6. 8.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "All right, I'm goin' out to get Clara" - "Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Crown, Porgy, Solo sextet, Chorus)
    2:31
  7. 9.
    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)
    6:22
  8. 10.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene I. "Summertime" - Porgy kills Crown (Bess, Porgy)
    4:15
  9. 11.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "Wait for us at the corner" (Detective, Annie, Serena, Other woman, Coroner)
    3:44
  10. 12.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "Come out here, both of you" (Detective, Coroner, Porgy)
    2:25
  11. 13.
    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)
    3:41
  12. 14.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "Listen: there's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York" (Sporting Life, Bess)
    4:27
  13. 15.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. Introduction
    2:25
  14. 16.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Good mornin', sistuh!" - "It's Porgy comin' home" (Solo tenor, solo mezzo-soprano, Chorus, Children, Mingo, Porgy)
    3:29
  15. 17.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Dem white folks sure ain' put nuttin' over on this baby" (Porgy, Lily)
    4:00
  16. 18.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Here Mingo, what's de matter wid you all?" (Porgy)
    1:48
  17. 19.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Where's Bess?" (Porgy, Maria, Serena)
    3:05
  18. 20.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Bess is gone" (Lily, Porgy, Serena, Mingo, Maria, Chorus)
    2:01
  19. 21.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Oh Lawd, I'm on my way" (Porgy, Chorus)
    1:21

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