Album
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
Tracklist
1
Porgy and Bess, opera: Introduction / Jazzbo Brown Blues / Summertime
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
8:43
2
Porgy and Bess, opera: My Man's Gone Now
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
4:17
3
Porgy and Bess, opera: I got plenty o' nuttin'
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
2:40
4
Porgy and Bess, opera: Buzzard keep on flyin'
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
3:25
5
Porgy and Bess, opera: Bess, you is my woman now
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
5:32
6
Porgy and Bess, opera: Oh, I can't sit down
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
4:14
7
Porgy and Bess, opera: I ain't got no shame / It ain't necessarily so
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
5:50
8
Porgy and Bess, opera: Now de time, oh Gawd
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
7:24
9
Porgy and Bess, opera: Tell me quick where's Bess / Oh Lawd, I'm on my way
Porgy and Bess (highlights)
6:19
In print
First pressed 1985, still pressed 1991 — 22 pressings across 9 countries.
Credits
Leonard Slatkin
Conductor
Monika Prust
Design
Eberhard Hinz
Engineer
Siegfried Stöckigt
Instrument · piano
Celso P. Almeida
Liner Notes
Claude Hermann
Liner Notes
Max Harrison
Liner Notes
Philip Mattson
Liner Notes
Stephan Stompor
Liner Notes
DuBose Heyward
Lyricist
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
Ingrid Trumpf
Mix
Deutsches Symphonie‐Orchester Berlin
Performing Orchestra
Rundfunk‐Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Performing Orchestra
Phonogram (4)
Photography
Susesch Bayat
Photography
Eberhard Geiger
Producer
Diane Curry
Vocal · alto vocals [maria, lily]
Roberta Alexander
Vocal · soprano vocals [bess, clara, serena]
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Vocal · choir
Simon Estes
Vocal · baritone vocals [porgy, sporting life]
Wilfried Staufenbiel
Vocal · tenor vocals [mingo]
George Gershwin
Writer