Porgy and Bess

Album by George Gershwin

Porgy and Bess is an opera by American composer George Gershwin that premiered in 1935. The score blends classical operatic writing with jazz, blues and popular-song elements, employing orchestral textures and vernacular rhythms, and it represents Gershwin's effort to create a distinctly American operatic work that bridges concert and popular musical traditions.
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  1. 1.
    Overture and Summertime
    3:40
  2. 2.
    A Woman Is a Sometime Thing / Introducing: Summertime
    2:46
  3. 3.
    My Man’s Gone Now
    4:05
  4. 4.
    It Take a Long Pull to Get There
    2:06
  5. 5.
    I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’
    2:42
  6. 6.
    Buzzard Song
    3:44
  7. 7.
    Bess, You Is My Woman
    4:34
  8. 8.
    It Ain’t Necessarily So
    2:46
  9. 9.
    What Do You Want Wid Bess?
    3:00
  10. 10.
    Strawberry Woman’s Call / Crab Man’s Call
    3:05
  11. 11.
    I Loves You, Porgy
    3:24
  12. 12.
    The Requiem
    3:57
  13. 13.
    There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York
    3:02
  14. 14.
    Porgy’s Lament and Finale
    3:20
  15. 15.
    I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’
    2:32

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