Gershwin's music drama about the crippled Porgy and
his determined love for Bess, set in the 1930s in Charleston, South Carolina, is among the most beloved and widely performed of
all American operas. "This, Gershwin's last serious work," wrote David Ewen,
"possesses that richness, vitality and variety of melody, that vigor of rhythm,
that spontaneity and freshness we associate with Gershwin's best music. Of all
Gershwin's serious works, it is the only one to reveal compassion, humanity and
a profound dramatic instinct. Its roots are in the soil of the Negro people,
whom it interprets with humor, tragedy, penetrating characterizations, dramatic
power and sympathy."
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George Gershwin
Selections from Porgy and Bess Play
Recorded on 09/09/2009, uploaded on 12/29/2009
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Selections from "Porgy and Bess" George Gershwin
Summertime (arr. Courage)
It Ain't Necessarily So (arr. Heifetz)
Gershwin's music drama about the crippled Porgy and his determined love for Bess, set in the 1930s in Charleston, South Carolina, is among the most beloved and widely performed of all American operas. "This, Gershwin's last serious work," wrote David Ewen, "possesses that richness, vitality and variety of melody, that vigor of rhythm, that spontaneity and freshness we associate with Gershwin's best music. Of all Gershwin's serious works, it is the only one to reveal compassion, humanity and a profound dramatic instinct. Its roots are in the soil of the Negro people, whom it interprets with humor, tragedy, penetrating characterizations, dramatic power and sympathy."
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More music by George Gershwin
Prelude 1, Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Three Preludes
Extract from Porgy and Bess
Embraceable You
Prelude 2, Andante con moto e poco rubato
Piano Concerto in F Major
Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue
"It Ain't Necessarily So," from Porgy and Bess
Rhapsody in Blue
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Habañera, Op. 21, No. 2, from Three Spanish Dances
Suite Populaire Espagnole
Invierno Porteño
Nigun, from Baal Shem Suite
Malagueña, Op. 21, No.1, from Three Spanish Dances
Zapateado, Op. 21, No.6, from Three Spanish Dances
Scherzo for Violin and Piano in c minor, WoO posth. 2 (from F.A.E. Sonata)
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
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