The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess [sound recording] / by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin ; musical bood adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks ; musical score adapted by Diedre L. Murray.
Format:
[sound recording] /
Publisher:
PS Classics,
Copyright Date:
p2012
Description:
2 compact discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
"New Broadway cast recording"--Container. Production notes and libretto inserted in container. Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, David Alan Grier ; with accompanying singers and musicians ; orchestrations by William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke. Recorded Mar. 26-27, 2012 at MSR Studios, New York, NY.
Contents:
disc 1. Overture -- Summertime -- Roll them bones -- A woman is a sometime thing -- Porgy's entrance -- Crap game -- The killing of Robbins -- Gone, gone, gone -- My man's gone now -- Leaving for the promised land -- It takes a long pull to get there -- I got plenty of nothing -- I hates your strutting style -- "Picnics is all right-- " -- Bess, you is my woman now -- Oh, I can't sit down -- disc 2. It ain't necessarily so -- What you want with Bess? -- Oh, Doctor Jesus -- Street cries -- "I was powerful sick-- " -- I loves you, Porgy -- The storm approaches -- Oh, the Lord shake the heaven -- A red headed woman -- Oh, Doctor Jesus (reprise) -- Clara, don't you be downhearted -- Summertime (reprise) -- The death of Crown -- There's a boat that's leaving soon for New York -- Bess, Oh where's my Bess? -- Oh Lord, I'm on my way.
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