Porgy and Bess first studio cast recording

Studio recording

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 directly based on the original 1935 production of George Gershwin

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

's opera Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward...

. This studio recording originated as several semi-staged performances which took place on February 24 and 25, 2006 at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center

Tennessee Performing Arts Center

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 in Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

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, with Alvy Powell as Porgy, Marquita Lister as Bess, Nicole Cabell

Nicole Cabell

Nicole Cabell , is an American opera singer. She is presently best known as the 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition....

 as Clara and Robert Mack as Sportin' Life. The Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Nashville Symphony Orchestra

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 was conducted by John Mauceri

John Mauceri

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. The recording incorporates changes Gershwin made to his original score after its first publication, which were not discovered until 1987.

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 Singin' (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"

Cast of the 2006 version

Porgy	bass-baritone Bass-baritone A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...	Alvy Powell
Bess	soprano Soprano A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...	Marquita Lister Marquita Lister Marquita Lister is an American operatic soprano. She has sung with major companies in the U.S. and abroad, specializing in the lirico-spinto repertoire...
Clara	soprano Soprano A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...	Nicole Cabell Nicole Cabell Nicole Cabell , is an American opera singer. She is presently best known as the 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition....
Sportin' Life	tenor Tenor The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...	Robert Mack
Crown	baritone Baritone Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...	Lester Lynch