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Porgy and Bess: Original Sound Track Album | 
 enlarge | Label: Columbia Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 138580
Media: LP Record
ASIN: B000MI1XQK
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The Samuel Goldwyn Motion Picture Production of Porgy And Bess: Original Sound Track Album Music by George Gershwin Vintage Vinyl 33 RPM LP Record "Six Eye" Black Label!
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 Still has magic after all of these years October 31, 2007
Alesis (Sacramento)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I listened to this when my parents used to play it. I was in kindergarden. I'm still listening to this recording after all of these years, and it still moves me. This was one of the first musicals that fascinated me as a child and it has only gotten better with time. Other recordings might have bigger names, or more modern recording techniques, but this is the version that shines the brightest. The voices make you want to close your eyes and see the scene in your mind. Opera stars sound like, well, they sound like opera stars singing an American musical in a classical style-very out of place. These voices sound like people singing their hearts out, and the technique is suberb. This is the musical as it should be sung: technique is invisible and artistry reigns.
When is someone going to put this out on CD so we can all listen without those annoying pops and clicks from an LP? This is a true gem.
 misguided and ravishing October 28, 2007
M. M. Anthony (berkeley, ca)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
first, let's suspend the huge controversies: opera or musical? authentic black art or exotica? culturally exalting or stereotypical. i remain passionately ambivalent about the work, but i keep going back for the music. of course what we have here are excerpts of some numbers, with other sections absented to make room for the hits.
robert mcferrin's honeyed, bronze baritone, urgent, tender, virile, has all the moods and colors to paint a
fully fleshed porgy who excites, and about whose plight we must care. this ghosting for sidney poitier fits hand in glove.
if adele addison's soprano doesn't fit as ghost voice for more mezzoish dorothy dandridge, and indeed it seems a little celestial for the number of times bess has been around the block, the voice is gorgeous. addison spins delicately jeweled sound, and is not lacking in conviction, if her lyric voice is a bit light for bess.
their duets are ravishing, as is much of the orchestral work. elsewhere, andre previn's handling of the score is faceless, disembodied, pristine, without face or guts. never is his work sloppy.
pearl bailey is pearlie mae-fection. cab calloway subs for sammy davis jr, who sang in the film, but was contractually forbidden from the studio recording. calloway is wicked and irresistable here. brock peters and inez mathews, as crown and serena, bring power to his menace, her pathos.
i'll not dwell on 'summertime' having been languidly sung by the only white soloist on the recording. it's out of place, it's beautiful.
the chorus work is excellent, if pasteurized sonically. i kvetch, but i always go back, for my ears' pleasure.
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