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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  1. 1.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Introduction: Jasbo Brown Blues"
    5:32
  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"
    8:28
  3. 3.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "A woman is a sometime thing (Lissen to yo' daddy warn you)"
    2:04
  4. 4.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "My man's gone now" - "How de saucer stan' now, my sister?"
    6:18
  5. 5.
    Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Headin' for the Promis' Lan'"
    4:42
  6. 6.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "It takes a long pull to get there"
    3:50
  7. 7.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'"
    2:38
  8. 8.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Buzzard Song"
    4:08
  9. 9.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Bess, you is my woman now"
    4:43
  10. 10.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I can't sit down"
    4:04
  11. 11.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "It ain't necessarily so" - "Shame on all you sinners" - "Bess!...Crown!..."
    9:33
  12. 12.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "Oh, what you want wid Bess?"
    3:38
  13. 13.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Porgy, Porgy, dat you there"
    2:37
  14. 14.
    Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "I loves you, Porgy"
    3:29
  15. 15.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene II. "There's a boat dat's leavin'"
    3:55
  16. 16.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Oh Bess, oh where's my Bess"
    2:30
  17. 17.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Bess is gone"
    1:53
  18. 18.
    Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Oh Lawd, I'm on my way"
    1:35

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