George Gershwin / Lawrence Winters • Camilla Williams • Inez Matthews • Warren Coleman • Avon Long
Porgy & Bess
1951
- Stage & Screen
- Musical
- Score
- Label
- Columbia Masterworks
- Catalogue no.
- OSL-162
- Format
- 3 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Auto-coupled1 × Box Set
- Original year
- 1951
- This pressing
- 1951
- Country
- US
Tracklist
- AAct I, Scene 1 - Catfish Row, A Summer Evening
- BAct I, Scene 2 - Serena's Room, The Following Night
- C Act II, Scene 1 - Catfish Row, A Month Later
- D1Act II, Scene 2 - Kittiwah Island, Evening, The Same Day
- D2Act II, Scene 3 - Catfish Row, Before Dawn, A Week Later
- E1Act II, Scene 4 - Serena's Room, Dawn Of The Following Day
- E2Act III, Scene 1 - Catfish Row, The Next Night
- F1Act III, Scene 2 - Catfish Row, The Next Afternoon
- F2 Act III, Scene 3 - Catfish Row, A Week Later
Notes
2nd pressing with a small box footprint.
Auto-coupled release: Sides present as A/F, B/E, C/D per given tracklist. (Disc labels are actually numbered, so that is 1/6, 2/5 & 3/4)
A complete studio recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Recorded in 1951 by some of the original Broadway actors. Recording notes and full script of the opera is included. Epic performances of Summer-time and It Ain't Necessarily So and others included.
Box front states - OSL-162