Gershwin: Porgy and Bess William Warfield

Album info

Album-Release:
2008

HRA-Release:
22.07.2016

Album including Album cover

?

Formats & Prices

FormatPriceIn CartBuy
FLAC 48 $ 18.50
  • George Gershwin (1898-1937): Porgy and Bess - Act One, Scene I:
  • 1Introduction02:03
  • 2Summertime02:20
  • 3Oh, nobody knows when de Lawd is goin' to Call01:32
  • 4I been sweatin' all Day01:21
  • 5Summertime - Seven come, seven to Pappy!00:58
  • 6Lissen to yo' daddy - A woman is a sometime Thing03:00
  • 7Here's the ol' crap Shark!01:50
  • 8No, no, Brother01:41
  • 9Here comes Big Boy!02:07
  • 10Don't you ever let a woman grieve You02:03
  • 11Oh, little Stars01:57
  • 12Jesus, he's killed Him!02:53
  • Porgy and Bess - Act One, Scene II:
  • 13Gone, gone, Gone03:20
  • 14Come on sister - Overflow02:11
  • 15A saucer-Burial setup, I See02:28
  • 16I ain't never done nuttin', Boss (I can't Puzzle...)01:12
  • 17My man's gone Now03:25
  • 18How de saucer stand now my Sister01:47
  • 19Oh, the train is at the Station02:32
  • Porgy and Bess - Act One, Scene III:
  • 20Oh, I'm agoin' out - It take a long pull to get There02:52
  • 21Oh, I got plenty o' Nuttin'02:36
  • 22Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for Somebody?04:21
  • 23'Lo Bess, goin' to Picnic?02:39
  • 24Bess, you is my woman Now04:36
  • 25I stayin' with Porgy - Sho' you Goin'03:05
  • 26Goodby, Porgy01:19
  • Porgy and Bess - Act Two, Scene I:
  • 27I ain' got no Shame01:43
  • 28It ain't neccesarily So05:48
  • 29Crown, I got something to tell Yo01:24
  • 30Oh, what you want wid Bess?03:04
  • 31Interlude02:58
  • Porgy and Bess - Act Two, Scene II:
  • 32Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time For01:49
  • 33It take a long pull to get there, Huh!02:01
  • 34I think dat maybe she goin' to sleep Now00:53
  • 35Oh, Doctor Jesus01:57
  • 36Oh dey's so fresh an' Fine02:03
  • 37I'm talkin' about devil Crabs02:20
  • 38I lonesome here all by Myself01:41
  • 39I wants to stay Here02:50
  • 40Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?01:41
  • Porgy and Bess - Act Two, Scene III:
  • 41The hurricane is rampaging Violently00:40
  • 42Oh, de Lowd shake de Heavens01:17
  • 43One of dese mornings you goin' to rise up Singin'01:05
  • 44Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de Do'02:24
  • 45If Gawd want to kill Me01:15
  • 46A red-Headed woman make a choo-Choo Jump03:41
  • Porgy and Bess - Act Three, Scene I:
  • 47Clara, don't you be Downhearted03:28
  • 48Ha ha ha - You low-Life Skunk01:24
  • 49Summertime01:19
  • 50Interlude - Death of Crown01:04
  • Porgy and Bess - Act Three, Scene II:
  • 51Introduction07:47
  • 52Turn me Loose01:34
  • 53There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York03:31
  • Porgy and Bess - Act Three, Scene III:
  • 54Introduction01:14
  • 55Dem white folks sure ain' put Nuttin'07:55
  • 56Oh Bess, oh where's my Bess01:36
  • 57Where Bess Gone?00:57
  • 58Oh Lord, I'm on my Way02:52
  • Total Runtime02:19:23

Info for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin’s only opera, the masterwork of American music theatre, had to fight hard on its way to its German audience as it was ostracised as “nigger music” in the Third Reich. The blockage was only broken by the legendary production by Robert Breen which was toured first in the US and then across Europe from 1952 until 1955. The present recording documents the guest performance of the ensemble at the Berliner Festwochen 1952. The conditions were ideal: the music director, Alexander Smallens, had also conducted the New York premiere in 1935. He inspired a stellar cast of soloists to perform on the highest level. Amongst them are William Warfield, Cab Calloway and also the young Leontyne Price; this is probably the very first sound document on which she can be heard. Here is a captivating document of the highest musical and dramatic intensity, making the listener hold his breath atmospherically and dramatically from the first to the last minute.

The production is part of our series „Legendary Recordings“ and bears the quality feature „1st Master Release“. This term stands for the excellent quality of archival productions at audite. For historical publications at audite are based, without exception, on the original tapes from broadcasting archives. In general these are the original analogue tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by today‘s standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering – professionally competent and sensitively applied – also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations. Thus, a sound of superior quality results. CD publications based on private recordings from broadcasts cannot be compared with these.

“There is singing, shouting, crying, arguing, fighting, intermittent praying, dancing, howling, stamping […]. Nobody seems to be acting but simply offering their unique temperament, vitality and sheer existence.” (Berliner Kurier, 18 September 1952).

This historical set is a major document: In 1952 the State Department sponsored a European tour of Porgy & Bess that was to last more than three years. This performance comes from a radio broadcast of a live performance in...…

Leontyne Price (Bess)
William Warfield (Porgy)
Cab Calloway (Sporting Life)
John McCurry (Crown)
Eva Jessye Choir
Rias-Unterhaltungsorchester
Alexander Smallens, Dirigent

Live Recording - Titania Palast, Berlin 21 September 1952

Digitally remastered

No biography found.

This album contains no booklet.

© 2010-2024 HIGHRESAUDIO