Porgy and Bess (highlights)

Album by George Gershwin & Simon Estes & Roberta Alexander & Rundfunk‐Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Leonard Slatkin

Porgy and Bess (Highlights) is a highlights album of the opera by American composer George Gershwin, drawn from the work he premiered in 1935. The collection presents the opera's fusion of classical orchestration with jazz, blues and African American folk elements, and occupies a central place in Gershwin's output as a work that bridged operatic technique and American popular music.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Porgy and Bess, opera: Introduction / Jazzbo Brown Blues / Summertime
    8:43
  2. 2.
    Porgy and Bess, opera: My Man's Gone Now
    4:17
  3. 3.
    Porgy and Bess, opera: I got plenty o' nuttin'
    2:40
  4. 4.
    Porgy and Bess, opera: Buzzard keep on flyin'
    3:25
  5. 5.
    Porgy and Bess, opera: Bess, you is my woman now
    5:32
  6. 6.
    Porgy and Bess, opera: Oh, I can't sit down
    4:14
  7. 7.
    Porgy and Bess, opera: I ain't got no shame / It ain't necessarily so
    5:50
  8. 8.
    Porgy and Bess, opera: Now de time, oh Gawd
    7:24
  9. 9.
    Porgy and Bess, opera: Tell me quick where's Bess / Oh Lawd, I'm on my way
    6:19

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