Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

George Gershwin; Nikolaus Harnoncourt

TypeAlbum
ReleasedDecember 7, 2009
LabelSony Classical
Genre
Classical Stage & Screen
Style
Modern Opera

Tracks

# Title Popular Duration
Disc 1
1 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1. Introduction 1:46
2 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1. “Summertime and the livin' is easy” (Clara) 2:15
3 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1. “Seems like these bones don't give me nothin' but boxcars tonight” (Jake, Sportin' Life, Mingo, Serena, Robbins, chorus, Jim, Clara, crap shooters) 4:28
4 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1. “Lissen to yo' daddy warn you” - “Oh, a woman is a sometime thing” (Jake, Mingo, Sportin' Life, chorus, Peter, Lily, Maria) 3:05
5 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1. “Here's the ol' crap shark!” ... “No, no, brudder” (Jake, Mingo, Porgy, Sportin' Life, Robbins, Jim, Maria, Serena) 4:31
6 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1. “Here comes the Big Boy!” (Mingo, Jake, Jim, Crown, Sportin' Life, Serena, Bess, Robbins, Porgy, chorus) 4:53
7 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1. “Six to make!” (Sportin' Life, Jim, Mingo, Jake, Porgy, Crown, Robbins, Maria, Serena, Bess, chorus) 4:00
8 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 1. “Jesus, he's killed him!” ... “That you, Sportin' Life?” (Mingo, Bess, Crown, Sportin' Life, Maria) 5:04
9 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2. “Where is brudder Robbins?” (woman, chorus, Man, Serena, Maria, Bess) 3:38
10 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2. “Come on, sister” ... “Overflow, overflow” (soprano, chorus, Jake, Peter, Serena, Maria, Porgy, Clara) 3:18
11 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2. “Um! A saucer-buryin' set-up, I see” (detective, Serena, Jake, Porgy, chorus) 3:44
12 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2. “My man's gone now” (Serena, chorus) 4:16
13 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2. “How de saucer stan' now, my sister?” (undertaker, Serena, Jake, Porgy, chorus) 2:07
14 Porgy & Bess: Act I, Scene 2. “Oh, the train is at the station” (Bess, chorus) 3:07
15 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Oh, I'm a-goin' out to the Blackfish banks” (Jake, chorus) 3:37
16 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic” - “Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'” (Annie, Jake, Clara, Porgy, chorus, Serena, Maria) 2:13
17 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “I got plenty o' nuttin'” (Porgy, chorus) 1:18
18 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Listen there what I tells you” (Maria, Serena, Sportin' Life) 1:23
19 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “I hates yo' struttin' style” (Maria) 1:17
20 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody?” (Maria, Frazier, Porgy, Bess, chorus, Lily, Man, Scipio, Annie, Serena) 5:22
21 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Boy! Come here, boy!” (Archdale, Scipio, Clara, Serena, Mingo, Jake, Porgy, chorus) 2:52
22 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Buzzard keep on flyin' over” (Porgy, chorus) 3:23
Disc 2
1 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Lo, Bess, goin' to de picnic?” (Sportin' Life, Bess, Porgy) 3:17
2 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Honey, we sure goin' strut our stuff today!” (Jake, Porgy, Bess) 0:43
3 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Bess, you is my woman now” (Porgy, Bess) 5:09
4 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 1. “Oh, I can't sit down” (chorus, Maria, Bess, Porgy) 4:12
5 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2. “I ain't got no shame doin' what I like to do” (chorus) 3:09
6 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2. “It ain't necessarily so” (Sportin' Life, chorus) 4:30
7 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2. “Shame on all you sinners” (Serena, Maria) 1:53
8 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2. “Crown!” ... “You know very well dis Crown!” (Bess, Crown) 3:24
9 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 2. “Oh, what you want wid Bess?” (Bess, Crown) 4:03
10 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3. “Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for” (Jake, Nelson, Jim, Maria, chorus) 2:53
11 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3. “Well, if it ain' ole Peter!” (Maria, Peter, Bess, Porgy, Serena) 2:24
12 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3. “Oh Doctor Jesus” (Serena, Porgy, Peter, Lily) 2:33
13 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3. “Oh, dey's so fresh an' fine” (strawberry woman) 1:11
14 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3. “I'm talkin' about devil crabs” (crab man, Porgy, Maria) 2:28
15 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3. “Porgy, Porgy, dat you there, ain' it?” (Bess, Porgy) 3:04
16 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3. “If dere warn't no Crown, Bess” (Porgy, Bess) 2:37
17 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 3. “Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?” (Maria, Clara) 1:40
18 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4. “Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens an' de Lawd rock de groun'” (chorus, man, woman, Porgy, Clara, Serena, Sportin' Life) 2:34
19 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4. “One of dese mornin's you goin' to rise up singin'” (Clara, chorus) 1:11
20 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4. “Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'” (chorus, Peter, Lily, Mingo, Maria, Bess) 1:30
21 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4. “You is a nice parcel of Christians” (Crown, Serena, Bess, Porgy, woman, chorus) 4:06
22 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4. “A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump its track” (Crown, chorus) 1:36
23 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4. “Jake's boat in de river upside down!” (Bess, Clara, Crown) 1:02
24 Porgy & Bess: Act II, Scene 4. “All right, I'm goin' out to get Clara” ... “Oh Doctor Jesus” (Crown, Porgy, all) 2:18
Disc 3
1 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 1. “Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted” ... “You low-life skunk, ain' you got no shame” (chorus, Sportin' Life, Maria) 6:23
2 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 1. “Summertime an' the livin' is easy” (Bess, Porgy) 3:48
3 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 2. “Wait for us at the corner, Al” (detective, Annie, Serena, other woman, coroner, 3 women, Porgy, policeman) 5:02
4 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 2. “Oh Gawd! They goin' make him look on Crown's face!” (Bess, Sportin' Life) 2:10
5 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 2. “There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York” (Sportin' Life, Bess) 4:07
6 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3. Introduction 1:17
7 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3. Symphony of Noise 4:18
8 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3. “Good mornin', sistuh!” ... “It's Porgy comin' home” (man, woman, chorus, children, Mingo, Porgy) 2:58
9 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3. “Dem white folks sure ain' put nuttin' over on this baby” (Porgy, Lily) 2:57
10 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3. “Here Mingo, what's de matter wid you all?” (Porgy) 1:39
11 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3. “Maria, Maria, where's Bess?” (Porgy, Maria, Serena) 3:19
12 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3. “Where Bess gone?” (Porgy, Mingo, Maria, Serena, chorus) 1:47
13 Porgy & Bess: Act III, Scene 3. “Oh Lawd, I'm on my way” (Porgy, chorus) 1:23
59 tracks, 2 hr 56 min

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