George Gershwin / Lawrence Winters • Camilla Williams • Inez Matthews • Warren Coleman • Avon Long – Porgy & Bess

George Gershwin / Lawrence Winters • Camilla Williams • Inez Matthews • Warren Coleman • Avon Long

George Gershwin / Lawrence Winters • Camilla Williams • Inez Matthews • Warren Coleman • Avon Long –Porgy & Bess

1951

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Version Information

Label
Columbia Masterworks
Catalog number
OSL-162
Original year
1951
Version year
1951
Region
US
Format

3 x Vinyl
Auto-coupled
LP
Album
Repress

1 x Box Set

Version 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

Tracklist
A.Act I, Scene 1 - Catfish Row, A Summer Evening
B.Act I, Scene 2 - Serena's Room, The Following Night
C. Act II, Scene 1 - Catfish Row, A Month Later
D1.Act II, Scene 2 - Kittiwah Island, Evening, The Same Day
D2.Act II, Scene 3 - Catfish Row, Before Dawn, A Week Later
E1.Act II, Scene 4 - Serena's Room, Dawn Of The Following Day
E2.Act III, Scene 1 - Catfish Row, The Next Night
F1.Act III, Scene 2 - Catfish Row, The Next Afternoon
F2. Act III, Scene 3 - Catfish Row, A Week Later

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