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Porgy and Bess (1935)

Libretto: Edwin DuBose Heyward
John Mauceri, Nashville Symphony, Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nicole Cabell (Soprano), Robert Mack (Tenor), Leonard Rowe (Baritone), Chauncey Packer (Tenor), Monique McDonald (Soprano), Barron Coleman (Tenor), Justin Lee Miller (Voice), Alvy Powell (Bass), Calvin Lee (Tenor), Linda Thompson Williams (Mezzo Soprano), Marquita Lister (Soprano), Leonard Warren (Baritone), Lester Lynch (Baritone), Tiffany Nicole Wharton (Mezzo Soprano), Richard Daniel (Voice), Paul Bracy (Voice), Tamica Harris (Mezzo Soprano), Uzee Brown, Jr. (Baritone), Jeremiah Cooper (Voice), Bart LeFan (Voice), Talmage M. Watts (Voice)
49 Tracks, 2:24:58

  • Act I

    • 1. Introduction
      01:44
    • 2. Summertime
      02:10
    • 3. Seems like these bones don't give me nothin' but boxcars tonight
      03:15
    • 4. Summertime
      00:53
    • 5. What, that chile ain't asleep yet?...A woman is a sometime thing
      02:25
    • 6. Honey man! Honey man! Here come de honey man
      03:12
    • 7. They pass by singin'
      01:46
    • 8. Here comes Big Boy!
      03:48
    • 9. Crown cock-eyed drunk...Oh, little stars
      02:42
    • 10. Oh stop them! Don't let them fight!
      01:09
    • 11. Wake up an' hit it out. You ain't got no time to lose
      04:17
    • 12. Gone, gone, gone...Overflow
      06:36
    • 13. Um! A saucer-buryin' setup, I see
      03:01
    • 14. My man's gone now
      04:13
    • 15. How de saucer stan'now, my sister?
      01:59
    • 16. Leavin' for the Promise' Lan
      02:53

  • Act II

    • 1. Oh, I'm a-goin' out to the Blackfish Banks
      03:17
    • 2. Oh, I got plenty o'nuttin'
      02:38
    • 3. Mornin, lawyer, lookin' for somebody?
      04:50
    • 4. Dey's a Buckra comin'
      01:57
    • 5. 'Lo Bess, goin' to de picnic?
      03:33
    • 6. Bess, you is my woman now
      05:23
    • 7. Oh, I can't sit down
      04:37
    • 8. Allegretto barbaro...Ha da da, ha da da
      01:56
    • 9. It ain't necessarily so
      04:48
    • 10. Crown! You know very well dis Crown
      02:51
    • 11. Oh...What you want wid Bess?
      03:48
    • 12. Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for
      02:33
    • 13. Well, if it ain't ole Peter!
      02:00
    • 14. Oh Doctor Jesus
      02:12
    • 15. Oh dey's so fresh an' fine...I'm talkin' about devil crabs
      03:03
    • 16. Porgy, Porgy, dat you there, ain't it?
      02:51
    • 17. I loves you, Porgy
      02:06
    • 18. Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?
      01:29
    • 19. Storm
      01:57
    • 20. Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens
      02:08
    • 21. One of dese mornin's...Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'
      02:21
    • 22. You is a nice parcel of Christians
      03:16
    • 23. A red-headed woman
      01:19
    • 24. Jake's boat in de river, upside down!
      02:06

  • Act III

    • 1. Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted
      02:37
    • 2. Ha ha ha
      01:47
    • 3. Summertime
      03:20
    • 4. Introduction, Wait for us at the corner
      06:20
    • 5. There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York
      04:11
    • 6. Occupational humoresque (Good mornin')
      03:18
    • 7. It's Porgy comin' home
      03:53
    • 8. Oh, Bess, oh where's my Bess
      01:36
    • 9. Where's Bess gone? Oh Lawd, I'm on my way
      02:54