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Porgy and Bess highlights / Gershwin.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 00720
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.
- Series:
- Gold seal.
- Gold seal
- Standardized Title:
- Porgy and Bess. Selections
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Excerpts.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (43 min., 14 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Porgy and Bess.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : RCA Victor, [1988]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Introduction ; Summertime
- A woman is a sometime thing
- Gone, gone, gone
- My man's gone now
- I got plenty o' nuttin'
- [Bess, you is my woman]
- It ain't necessarily so
- What you want wild Bess?
- I loves you, Porgy
- There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York
- Oh, Bess, oh, where's my Bess
- Oh, Lawd, I'm on my way.
- Participant:
- Leontyne Price, soprano ; William Warfield, baritone ; John W. Bubbles, tenor ; McHenry Boatwright, baritone ; other singers ; RCA Victor Orchestra and Chorus ; Skitch Henderson, conductor.
- Notes:
- Opera excerpts.
- Lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward.
- Recorded in May 1963; originally released on RCA Victor LM 2679 (mono.) and LSC 2679 (stereo.).
- Compact disc.
- OCLC:
- 20789282
- Publisher Number:
- 5234-2-RG RCA Victor
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