Tracks: DISC 1 1. Introduction
2. Summertime
3. Seems Like Those Bones Don't Give Me Nothin' But Boxcars Tonight
4. Summertime
5. What, That Chile Ain't Asleep Yet?...A Woman Is A Sometime Thing (Lissen To Yo' Daddy Warn You)
6. Honey Man! Honey Man! Here Come De Honey Man
7. They Pass By Signin' (No, No, Brudder, Porgy Ain' Sof' On No Woman)
8. Here Comes Big Boy!
9. Crown Cock-Eyed Drunk...Oh, Little Stars
10. Oh, Stop Them! Don't Let Them Fight!
11. Wake Up An' Hit It Out. You Ain't Got No Time To Lose
12. Gone, Gone, Gone (Where Is Brudder Robbins?)...Overflow
13. Um! A Saucer-Buryin' Setup, I See
14. My Man's Gone Now
15. How De Saucer Stan' Now, My Sister?
16. Leavin' For The Promise' Lan' (Oh, The Train Is At The Station)
17. It Take A Long Pull To Get There (Oh, I'm A-goin' Out To The Blackfish Banks)
18. Oh, I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
19. Mornin', Lawyer, Lookin' For Somebody?
20. Dey's A Buckra Comin'
21. 'Lo, Bess, Goin' To De Picnic?
22. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
23. Oh, I Can't Sit Down
DISC 2 1. Allegretto Barbaro Ha Da Da, Ha Da Da
2. It Ain't Necessarily So
3. Crown! - You Know Very Well Dis Crown
4. Oh...What You Want Wid Bess?
5. Honey, Dat's All De Breakfast I Got Time For
6. Well, If It Ain' Ole Peter!
7. Oh, Doctor Jesus
8. Oh Dey's So Fresh An' Fine...I'm Talkin' About Devil Crabs
9. Porgy, Porgy, Dat You There Ain't It?
10. I Loves You, Porgy
11. Why You Been Out On That Wharf So Long, Clara?
12. Storm
13. Oh, De Lawd Shake De Heavens
14. One Of Dese Mornin's...Oh, Dere's Soebody Knockin' At De Do'
15. You Is A Nice Parcel Of Christmas
16. A Red-Headed Woman
17. Jake's Boat In De River, Upside Down!
18. Clara, Clara, Don't You Be Downhearted
19. Ha Ha Ha
20. Summertime
21. Introduction/Wait For Us At The Corner, Al
22. Listen: There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
23. Occupational Humoresque/Good Mornin'
24. It's Porgy Comin' Home
25. Oh, Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
26. Where Bess Gone?...Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:48: Amazon.com Editoral Review: This is the first recording of George Gershwin's classic to incorporate the composer's final revisions for the 1935 premiere. Apparently it differs from the original published score though it won't sound all that different to a layman who's heard the versions dating from the 1970s onward, which replaced spoken dialogue with the sung recitatives Gershwin wanted. Musicology aside, there are gains and losses in this new set. The gains are a tighter, more focused narrative line due to the cuts, which amount to about half-an-hour of music. But those cuts are losses too, since they include some familiar and well-loved numbers. The performance is a good one though, if not necessarily preferable to previous recordings by Maazel, DeMain, and Rattle, all of which have their own shortcomings. Alvy Powell makes for a finely honed Porgy, and while one could ask for a bigger-voiced Bess, Marquita Lister sings and acts well. Many of the smaller roles are admirable too, with Lester Lynch scoring as a menacing Crown but Nicole Cabell, the Clara, has a wide vibrato on sustained high notes marring her "Summertime," here performed in the faster tempo of the 1935 score. --Dan Davis
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