George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward / Lorin Maazel, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus ‎– Porgy And Bess (Opera In Three Acts)

Name: Gershwin Porgy and Bess 3 LP Box NM 1976 Cleveland Maazel Heyward American Opera
SKU: 26031-68
Availability: OutOfStock

Label:

London Records ‎– OSA 13116

Format:

3 × Vinyl, Stereo, LP
Box Set

Country:

Released:

1976

Genre:

Classical, Stage & Screen

Style:

Opera

	Porgy And Bess
A	Introduction And Act 1, Scene 1; Catfish Row; A Summer Evening (Start); Jazzbo Brown Blues; Summertime; A Woman Is A Sometime Thing; Here Comes De Honey Man; They Pass By Singin’	28:21
B1	Act 1, Scene 1 (Concl.); Oh Little Stars	8:17
B2	Act 1, Scene 2; Serena’s Room – The Following Night; Gone, Gone, Gone; Overflow; My Man’s Gone Now	21:06
C	Act 2, Scene 1; Catfish Row – A Month Later; It Takes A Long Pull To Get There; I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin; Buzzard Song; Bess, You Is My Woman; Oh, I Can’t Sit Down	30:58
D1	Act 2, Scene 2; Kittiwah Island – Evening. The Same Day; I Ain’ Got No Shame; It Ain’t Necessarily So; What You Want Wid Bess?	15:44
D2	Act 2, Scene 3; Catfish Row – Before Dawn. A Week Later (Start); Oh, Doctor Jesus; Strawberry Woman; Crab Man; I Loves You, Porgy	16:21
E1	Act 2, Scene 3 (Concl.)	2:22
E2	Act 2, Scene 4; Serena’s Room – Dawn Of The Following Day; Oh, Hev’nly Father; Oh, De Lawd Shake De Heavens; Oh, Dere’s Somebody Knockin’ At De Do’; A Red Headed Woman	17:03
E3	Act 3, Scene 1; Catfish Row – The Next Night; Clara, Clara; Death Of Crown	8:55
F1	Act 3 Scene 2; Catfish Row – The Next Afternoon; There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York	13:37
F2	Act 3, Scene 3; Catfish Row – A Week Later; Good Mornin’, Sistuh!; Oh, Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess; Ow Lawd, I’m On My Way	17:40

Baritone Vocals [Crown] – McHenry Boatwright
Baritone Vocals [Jake] – Arthur Thompson (2)
Bass Vocals [Frazier, Jim] – Christopher Deane (2)
Bass Vocals [Porgy] – Willard White
Choir – The Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Chorus Master [Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus, The] – Becky Seredick
Chorus Master [Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, The] – Robert Page
Composed By – George Gershwin
Conductor – Lorin Maazel
Libretto By, Lyrics By – DuBose Heyward
Liner Notes – Lehman Engel
Lyrics By – Ira Gershwin
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Annie] – Alpha Floyd
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Lily] – Isola Jones
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Maria, Strawberry Woman] – Barbara Conrad (2)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Serena] – Florence Quivar
Orchestra – The Cleveland Orchestra
Performer [Coroner] – Alan Leatherman
Performer [Detective] – Robert Snook
Performer [Jasbo Brown], Piano – Joela Jones
Performer [Mr. Archdale] – John Buck (2)
Performer [Policeman] – Ralph Neally
Performer [Scipio] – Donald Zucca
Soprano Vocals [Bess] – Leona Mitchell
Soprano Vocals [Clara] – Barbara Hendricks
Tenor Vocals [Mingo, Undertaker] – James Vincent Pickens
Tenor Vocals [Peter, Nelson] – William Brown (3)
Tenor Vocals [Robbins, Crab Man] – Samuel Hagan
Tenor Vocals [Sporting Life] – François Clemmons*