John W. Bubbles, William Warfield - Porgy & Bess: High Performance
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Artist: John W. Bubbles, William WarfieldBrand: RCA
Conductor: Leontyne Price
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Introduction: Summertime
- Woman Is a Sometime Thing
- Gone, Gone, Gone
- My Man's Gone Now
- I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- What You Want Wid Bess? [Crown-Bess Duet]
- 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!
Free Music Notes for Porgy & Bess: High Performance
Free Music Review: Headache
Hit: 1 Stars
I am certain that I will feel the wrath of commenters who will label me uneducated, and lacking taste, and "don't know what I'm talking about" and delusional. Anyway, I love Gershwin, but I have trouble sitting through this performance due to the vocals. It's a brilliant piece of music, but the vocals are just upsetting, piercing, and annoying. I understand the history of this recording, I just don't enjoy it.
Porgy & Bess: High Performance Poster
RCA's 1963 highlights disc brought the stars of the early-1950s revival of the work, Leontyne Price and William Warfield, together again. By this time, however, Price was well advanced on her meteoric rise to operatic stardom and Warfield was gaining renown as a recitalist. Both are glorious here and Price's shimmering "Summertime" is worth the price of the disc. A plus is the spirited Sportin' Life of John?W. Bubbles, who created the role in the original 1935?production; an old-time vaudevillian, he wrings fun and irony from his all-too-short excerpts. Henderson conducts with vigor and RCA's "High Performance" sound, when heard on a good system, is remarkable. --Dan DavisClassical Music CDs
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