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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Donnie Ray Albert (Porgy), Clamma Dale (Bess), Wilma Shakesnider (Serena), Carol Brice (Maria), Andrew Smith (Crown), Alexander B. Smalls (Jake), Betty Lane (Clara), Larry Marchsall (Sportin' Life)

Houston Grand Opera Orchcestra & Chorus, John Demain

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Awards:

a distinctive and colourful performance of a masterly and moving opera

Gramophone Magazine, September 1986

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Donnie Ray Albert (Porgy), Clamma Dale (Bess), Wilma Shakesnider (Serena), Carol Brice (Maria), Andrew Smith (Crown), Alexander B. Smalls (Jake), Betty Lane (Clara), Larry Marchsall (Sportin' Life)

Houston Grand Opera Orchcestra & Chorus, John Demain

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a distinctive and colourful performance of a masterly and moving opera

Gramophone Magazine, September 1986

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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Work length3:04:09
  • Glover Parham (vocal), Myra Merritt (vocal), Hartwell Mace (vocal), Cornel Richie (vocal), Larry Marshall (vocal), Hansford Rowe (vocal), Mervin Wallace (vocal), Bernard Thacker (vocal), Andrew Smith (vocal), Alexander B. Smalls (vocal), Betty Lane (vocal), Dick Hyman (vocal), Donnie Ray Albert (vocal), Houston Grand Opera, Clamma Dale (vocal), Wilma Shakesnider (vocal), Carol Brice (vocal), William Gammon (vocal)
  • John DeMain
Introduction and Jasbo Brown Blues
Track length5:08
Summertime
Track length2:41
Oh, Nobody Knows When de Lord Is Gonna Call
Track length6:15
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
Track length2:11
Here Come de Honey Man; Porgy's Entrance
Track length4:58
Here Comes Big Boy! (Entrance of Crown and Bess)
Track length6:57
Oh Little Stars, Little Stars
Track length4:12
Wake Up an' Hit It Out
Track length4:35
Gone, Gone, Gone
Track length3:22
Overflow
Track length2:31
Well, Well, Well, a Saucer-Burying-Setup
Track length3:35
My Man's Gone Now
Track length4:44
How de Saucer Stan' Now, My Sister?
Track length2:05
Leavin' for the Promise' Lan'
Track length4:33
It Takes a Long Pull to Get There
Track length3:19
Mus' Be You Mens Forgot About de Picnic
Track length00:38
I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'
Track length2:47
Lissen There, What I Tells You
Track length1:12
I Hates Yo' Struttin' Style
Track length1:07
Mornin' Lawyer
Track length4:19
Dey's a Buckra Comin'
Track length2:23
The Buzzard Song
Track length3:21
Lo, Bess, Goin' to the Picnic?
Track length3:19
Bess, You Is My Woman
Track length6:01
Oh, I Can't Sit Down
Track length1:38
What's de Matter Wid You, Sister?
Track length2:34
I Ain't Got No Shame
Track length2:42
It Ain't Necessarily So
Track length3:10
Dance; Shame on All You Sinners
Track length2:18
Crown!
Track length4:07
What You Want wid Bess?
Track length2:29
Lemme Go, Hear dat Boat
Track length1:22
Honey, dat's All de Breakfast I Got Time for
Track length2:31
Take Yo' Hands off Me, I Say
Track length2:32
Oh, Doctor Jesus
Track length2:17
Strawberry Woman; Honey Man; Crab Man
Track length3:11
Now de Time, Oh, Gawd
Track length3:26
I Love You, Porgy
Track length3:45
Why You Been Out on That Wharf So Long, Clara?
Track length2:23
Oh, Doctor Jesus (Hurricane Scene); Summertime (Reprise)
Track length4:48
What Make You So Still, Bess; Oh, Dere's Somebody Knockin'
Track length1:52
You Is a Nice Parcel of Christians
Track length4:16
A Red-Headed Woman
Track length1:38
Jack's Boat Is de River
Track length3:00
Clara, Clara
Track length3:47
You Low-Lived Skunk
Track length1:57
Summertime (Reprise); Death of Crown
Track length4:25
Wait For Us at the Corner, Al
Track length4:08
What Is Your Name?
Track length3:45
Oh, Gawd! They Goin' Make Him Look on Crown's Face!
Track length1:55
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
Track length4:07
Catfish Row Interlude
Track length3:22
Good Mornin', sistuh! Good Mornin', brudder!
Track length2:21
It's Porgy Comin' Home
Track length6:17
Oh, Bess, Oh, Where's My Bess
Track length2:27
Bess Is Gone
Track length1:48
Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way
Track length1:38

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September 1986

a distinctive and colourful performance of a masterly and moving opera
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