Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess (2009)
Artist: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Title: Gershwin: Porgy & Bess
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: RCA Red Seal
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:55:48
Total Size: 818 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Gershwin: Porgy & Bess
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: RCA Red Seal
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:55:48
Total Size: 818 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Porgy and Bess, Opera in three acts (1935) -
01. Act 1: Scene 1: Introduction - [01:46]
02. Act 1: Scene 1: Summertime - [02:15]
03. Act 1: Scene 1: Seems like these bones don't give me nothin' but box-cars tonight - [04:28]
04. Act 1: Scene 1: Lissen to yo' daddy warn you... A woman is a sometime thing - [03:04]
05. Act 1: Scene 1: Here's the ol' crap shark... No, no, brudder - [04:31]
06. Act 1: Scene 1: Here come Big Boy! - [04:53]
07. Act 1: Scene 1: Six to make - [04:00]
08. Act 1: Scene 1: Jesus, he's killed him!... That you, Sportin' Life? - [05:04]
09. Act 1: Scene 2: Where is brudder Robbins?... Come on, sister! - [03:38]
10. Act 1: Scene 2: Come on sister... Overflow, overflow - [03:18]
11. Act 1: Scene 2: A saucer-burying set-up, I see - [03:44]
12. Act 1: Scene 2: My man's gone now - [04:16]
13. Act 1: Scene 2: How de saucer stan' now my sister? - [02:07]
14. Act 1: Scene 2: Oh, the train is at the station - [03:07]
15. Act 2: Scene 1: Oh, I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks - [03:37]
16. Act 2: Scene 1: Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic - [02:13]
17. Act 2: Scene 1: Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin' - [01:18]
18. Act 2: Scene 1: Lissen there what I tells you - [01:23]
19. Act 2: Scene 1: I hates yo' struttin' style - [01:17]
20. Act 2: Scene 1: Mornin' Lawyer lookin' for somebody - [05:22]
21. Act 2: Scene 1: Boy! Come here, boy! - [02:52]
22. Act 2: Scene 1: Buzzard keep on flyin' over - [03:23]
23. Act 2: Scene 1: Lo' Bess goin' to picnic? - [03:17]
24. Act 2: Scene 1: Honey we sure goin' strut our stuff today! - [00:43]
25. Act 2: Scene 1: Bess, you is my woman now - [05:09]
26. Act 2: Scene 1: Oh, I can't sit down - [04:12]
27. Act 2: Scene 2: I ain' got no shame - [03:09]
28. Act 2: Scene 2: It ain't necessarily so - [04:30]
29. Act 2: Scene 2: Shame on all you sinners - [01:53]
30. Act 2: Scene 2: Crown! - [03:24]
31. Act 2: Scene 2: Oh, what you want wid Bess? - [04:03]
32. Act 2: Scene 3: Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for - [02:53]
33. Act 2: Scene 3: Well, if it ain' ole Peter! - [02:24]
34. Act 2: Scene 3: Oh doctor Jesus - [02:33]
35. Act 2: Scene 3: Oh dey's so fresh an' fine - [01:11]
36. Act 2: Scene 3: I'm talkin' about devil crabs - [02:28]
37. Act 2: Scene 3: Porgy Porgy dat you there ain't it? - [03:04]
38. Act 2: Scene 3: If dere war'nt no Crown - [02:37]
39. Act 2: Scene 3: Why you been out on that wharf so long Clara? - [01:40]
40. Act 2: Scene 4: Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens an' de Lawd rock de groun' - [02:34]
41. Act 2: Scene 4: One of dese mornin's you goin' to rise up singin' - [01:11]
42. Act 2: Scene 4: Oh there's somebody knockin' at the do' - [01:30]
43. Act 2: Scene 4: You is a nice parcel of Christians - [04:06]
44. Act 2: Scene 4: A redheaded woman makes a choo-choo jump it's track - [01:36]
45. Act 2: Scene 4: Oh! Jake's boat in de river upside down! - [01:02]
46. Act 2: Scene 4: All right, I'm goin' out to get Clara... Oh Doctor Jesus - [02:18]
47. Act 3: Scene 1: Clara Clara don't you be downheartet - [06:23]
48. Act 3: Scene 1: Summertime - [03:48]
49. Act 3: Scene 2: Wait for us at the corner, Al. - [05:02]
50. Act 3: Scene 2: Oh, Gawd! They goin' make him look on Crown's face! - [02:10]
51. Act 3: Scene 2: There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York - [04:07]
52. Act 3: Scene 3: Introduction - [01:17]
53. Act 3: Scene 3: Symphony of noise - [04:18]
54. Act 3: Scene 3: Good mornin', sistuh! - [02:58]
55. Act 3: Scene 3: Dem white folks sure ain' put nuthin' over on this baby - [02:57]
56. Act 3: Scene 3: Here Mingo, what's de matter wid you all? - [01:39]
57. Act 3: Scene 3: Maria, Maria, where's Bess - [03:19]
58. Act 3: Scene 3: Where Bess gone? - [01:47]
59. Act 3: Scene 3: Oh Loawd, I'm on my way - [01:23]
As Nikolaus Harnoncourt approaches his 80th birthday next month, he shows no signs of curbing his insatiable musical curiosity. Harnoncourt was one of the true pioneers of period instrument performance in the 1960s and 70s, a musician deeply steeped in the Central European performance tradition. So the very thought of him conducting such an archetypal American opera as Porgy and Bess with the energy and understanding he displays here seems almost surreal. But, as the booklet accompanying this recording makes clear, Harnoncourt has a profound admiration for Gershwin's most ambitious stage work—"music of universal significance," as he calls it—and he details and justifies his selection of numbers, including those added from the composer's manuscripts, in this often cumbersome score. The result, presented here, based on stage performances
in Graz this summer, runs just under three hours. Overall, the cast, featuring Jonathan Lemalu as Porgy, Isabelle Kabatu as Bess, and Michael Forest as Sporting Life, is excellent, though one or two voices seem a little stiff and more constrained than Gershwin's vocal parts require. But
it is Harnoncourt's astonishingly energetic conducting, coupled with the stunningly precise playing of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, that truly ignites this performance.
And his comments on the aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute, quoted in the album liner notes, so perfectly capture the opera's unique power that they justify listening to the entire album.
in Graz this summer, runs just under three hours. Overall, the cast, featuring Jonathan Lemalu as Porgy, Isabelle Kabatu as Bess, and Michael Forest as Sporting Life, is excellent, though one or two voices seem a little stiff and more constrained than Gershwin's vocal parts require. But
it is Harnoncourt's astonishingly energetic conducting, coupled with the stunningly precise playing of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, that truly ignites this performance.
And his comments on the aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute, quoted in the album liner notes, so perfectly capture the opera's unique power that they justify listening to the entire album.
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