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Porgy & Bess / Gershwin. Carmen Jones / Bizet-Hammerstein.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.
- Series:
- Classical music library.
- Classical music library
- Standardized Title:
- Porgy and Bess. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicals--Excerpts, Arranged.
- Musicals.
- Operas--Excerpts.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Excerpts.
- Arrangements (Music)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Hayes, Middlesex, England] : EMI Classics, [2005]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents:
- Porgy and Bess. Summertime ; I got plenty o' nuttin' ; Bess, you is my woman now ; It ain't necessarily so ; Oh, dey's so fresh an' fine ; 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 / Gershwin
- Carmen Jones. Overture ; Dat's love ; You talk just like my maw ; Dere's a café ; Beat out dat rhythm on a drum ; Stand up and fight ; Whizzin' away along the track ; Dis flower ; Card song ; My Joe ; Finale / Bizet.
- Participant:
- In Porgy and Bess: Lawrence Winters, Isabelle Lucas, Ray Ellington ; Linden Singers. In Carmen Jones: Grace Bumbry, George Webb, Ena Babb, Thomas Baptiste, Elisabeth Welch ; Mike Sammes Singers. Both with New World Show Orchestra ; Kenneth Alwyn, conductor.
- Notes:
- "Highlights"--Original container.
- Porgy and Bess an opera in three acts by George Gershwin based on the novel Porgy by DuBose Heyward; book by Heyward; lyrics by Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Carmen Jones a musical play in two acts based on the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II after Meilhac and Halévy's adaptation of the novel by Prosper Mérimée.
- Previously released as a compact disc.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 1, 2012).
- 1st work recorded Feb. 16, 1961, 2nd Nov. 10, 1962 in London.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (Classical music library). Available via World Wide Web.
- Contains:
- Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen (Carmen Jones). Selections
- Other Format:
- 94633597259
- 94633597228
- OCLC:
- 815765842
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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