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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Alvy Powell (Porgy), Marquita Lister (Bess), Nicole Cabell (Clara), Robert Mack (Sportin' Life), Lester Lynch (Crown), Abigail Burke (Serena), Leonard Rowe (Jake), Linda Thompson Williams (Maria), Chauncey Packer (Mingo/Nelson/Crab Man), Calvin Lee (Peter), Tamica Harris (Annie), Tiffany Wharton...

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
… for the most part this version is extremely effective in removing the work's longueurs and heightening its theatricality. And it's very well served by the performance, with Powell and Lister...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20064 out of 5 stars

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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Alvy Powell (Porgy), Marquita Lister (Bess), Nicole Cabell (Clara), Robert Mack (Sportin' Life), Lester Lynch (Crown), Abigail Burke (Serena), Leonard Rowe (Jake), Linda Thompson Williams (Maria), Chauncey Packer (Mingo/Nelson/Crab Man), Calvin Lee (Peter), Tamica Harris (Annie), Tiffany Wharton...

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… for the most part this version is extremely effective in removing the work's longueurs and heightening its theatricality. And it's very well served by the performance, with Powell and Lister...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20064 out of 5 stars

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  • Release date: 11th Sep 2006
  • Label: Decca
  • Catalogue number: E4757877
  • Length: 2 hours 24 minutes
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Work length2:24:32
  • Nicole Cabell (soprano), Justin Lee Miller (voice), Barron Coleman (tenor), Monique McDonald (soprano), Leonard Rowe (baritone), Chauncey Packer (tenor), Robert Mack (tenor), Calvin Lee (tenor), Linda Thompson Williams (mezzo-soprano), Alvy Powell (bass), Linda Thompson Williams (contralto), Lester Lynch (baritone), Leonard Warren (baritone), Marquita Lister (soprano), Tiffany Nicole Wharton (mezzo-soprano), Paul Bracy (voice), Richard Daniel (voice), Tamica Harris (mezzo-soprano), Uzee Brown Jnr. (baritone), Bart Lefan (voice), Jeremiah Cooper (voice), Talmage M. Watts (voice)
  • Nashville Symphony, Nashville Symphony Chorus
  • John Mauceri
  • Recorded: 2006
Introduction
Track length1:44
Summertime
Track length2:09
Seems like these bones don't give me nothin' but boxcars tonight
Track length3:15
Summertime
Track length0:52
What, that chile ain't asleep yet?...A woman is a sometime thing
Track length2:24
Honey man! Honey man! Here come de honey man
Track length3:11
They pass by singin'
Track length1:46
Here comes Big Boy!
Track length3:47
Crown cock-eyed drunk...Oh, little stars
Track length2:42
Oh stop them! Don't let them fight!
Track length1:08
Wake up an' hit it out. You ain't got no time to lose
Track length4:17
Gone, gone, gone...Overflow
Track length6:36
Um! A saucer-buryin' setup, I see
Track length3:01
My man's gone now
Track length4:13
How de saucer stan'now, my sister?
Track length1:58
Leavin' for the Promise' Lan
Track length2:52
Oh, I'm a-goin' out to the Blackfish Banks
Track length3:17
Oh, I got plenty o'nuttin'
Track length2:37
Mornin, lawyer, lookin' for somebody?
Track length4:49
Dey's a Buckra comin'
Track length1:57
'Lo Bess, goin' to de picnic?
Track length3:33
Bess, you is my woman now
Track length5:22
Oh, I can't sit down
Track length4:36
Allegretto barbaro...Ha da da, ha da da
Track length1:56
It ain't necessarily so
Track length4:47
Crown! You know very well dis Crown
Track length2:51
Oh...What you want wid Bess?
Track length3:48
Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for
Track length2:33
Well, if it ain't ole Peter!
Track length2:00
Oh Doctor Jesus
Track length2:12
Oh dey's so fresh an' fine...I'm talkin' about devil crabs
Track length3:02
Porgy, Porgy, dat you there, ain't it?
Track length2:51
I loves you, Porgy
Track length2:05
Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?
Track length1:28
Storm
Track length1:56
Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens
Track length2:08
One of dese mornin's...Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'
Track length2:20
You is a nice parcel of Christians
Track length3:15
A red-headed woman
Track length1:19
Jake's boat in de river, upside down!
Track length2:06
Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted
Track length2:36
Ha ha ha
Track length1:46
Summertime
Track length3:20
Introduction, Wait for us at the corner
Track length6:19
Listen: There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York
Track length4:10
Occupational humoresque (Good mornin')
Track length3:18
It's Porgy comin' home
Track length3:52
Oh, Bess, oh where's my Bess
Track length1:35
Where's Bess gone? Oh Lawd, I'm on my way
Track length2:53

Awards and reviews

October 2006

… for the most part this version is extremely effective in removing the work's longueurs and heightening its theatricality. And it's very well served by the performance, with Powell and Lister in the title roles leading a strong cast, lean and hungry orchestral playing, and a vivid recording.
4 out of 5 stars
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