Porgy and Bess

Album by George Gershwin & The Cleveland Orchestra & The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus & Lorin Maazel & Willard White & Leona Mitchell & McHenry Boatwright & Florence Quivar & François Clemmons & Barbara Hendricks

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, premiered in 1935. The score blends elements of jazz, blues and classical orchestration, incorporating African American musical idioms into a theatrical setting and representing a culmination of Gershwin's efforts to fuse popular and classical traditions in his career.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Introduction: Jasbo Brown Blues"
    5:20
  2. 2.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Summertime" - "Oh, nobody knows when the Lawd is goin' to call..." - "I been sweatin' all day"
    8:46
  3. 3.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "A woman is a sometime thing (Lissen to yo' daddy warn you)"
    2:01
  4. 4.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Here come de honey man" - "Here's the ol' crap shark"
    3:26
  5. 5.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "They pass by singin'" - "Here comes Big Boy!" - "Don't you ever let a woman grieve you"
    8:46
  6. 6.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Oh, little stars" - "Touch that money an' meet yo' Gawd!"
    3:57
  7. 7.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Wake up an' hit it out" - "That you, Sportin' Life?"
    4:30
  8. 8.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Gone, gone, gone (Where is brudder Robbins?)"
    3:39
  9. 9.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Overflow, overflow" - "Gawd got plenty of money for de saucer"
    2:53
  10. 10.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Um! A saucer-burial setup, I see"
    3:36
  11. 11.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "My man's gone now" - "How de saucer stan' now, my sister?"
    6:18
  12. 12.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Headin' for the Promis' Lan'"
    4:42

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "It takes a long pull to get there"
    3:53
  2. 3.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I got plenty o'nuttin" - "Lissen there, what I tells you"
    3:42
  3. 4.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "I hates yo' struttin' style" - "Mornin', lawyer, lookin' for somebody?" - "Dey's a Buckra comin'"
    7:46
  4. 5.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Buzzard Song" - "Lo, Bess, goin' to picnic?"
    6:49
  5. 6.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Bess, you is my woman now"
    4:42
  6. 7.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I can't sit down"
    4:05
  7. 8.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "I ain't got no shame"
    2:37
  8. 9.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "It ain't necessarily so" - "Shame on all you sinners" - "Bess!...Crown!..."
    9:33
  9. 10.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "Oh, what you want wid Bess?"
    3:44
  10. 11.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for" - "Take yo' han's off me, I say"
    4:36
  11. 12.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Oh, Doctor Jesus"
    2:21
  12. 13.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Oh dey's so fresh an' fine" - "I'm talkin' about devil crabs"
    3:19
  13. 14.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Porgy, Porgy, dat you there"
    2:37
  14. 15.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "I loves you, Porgy"
    3:25
  15. 16.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Why you been out on that wharf"
    2:29

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "Oh, Doctor Jesus"
    2:23
  2. 4.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "Oh, de Lawd shake de heavens" - "One of dese mornings you goin' to rise up singin'"
    4:03
  3. 5.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'" - "You is a nice parcel of Christians..."
    5:10
  4. 6.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "A red-headed woman" - "Jake's boat in de river" - "Oh, Doctor Jesus"
    5:41
  5. 7.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene I. "Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted" - "Crown, Crown, don't you..." - "Summertime"
    6:33
  6. 8.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene I. Interlude (Death of Crown)
    2:27
  7. 9.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. Introduction - "Wait for us at the corner, Al" - "What is your name?"
    6:22
  8. 10.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "You've got to go, Porgy" - "Oh, Gawd! They goin' make him look"
    3:22
  9. 11.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "There's a boat dat's leavin'"
    3:59
  10. 12.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. Introduction
    3:30
  11. 13.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Good mornin', sistuh!" - "Thank Gawd I's home again!"
    2:49
  12. 14.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Dem white folks sure ain't put nuthin'"
    5:37
  13. 15.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Oh Bess, oh where's my Bess"
    2:29
  14. 16.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Bess is gone"
    1:43
  15. 17.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Oh Lawd, I'm on my way"
    1:36

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