Gershwin - Porgy & Bess (complete) | Guild - Historical GHCD231314

Gershwin - Porgy & Bess (complete)

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Label: Guild - Historical

Cat No: GHCD231314

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 26th May 2008

Contents

Artists

William Warfield
Leontyne Price
Cab Calloway
Eva Jessye Choir
RIAS-Unterhaltungsorchester

Conductor

Alexander Smallens

Works

Gershwin, George

Porgy and Bess

Artists

William Warfield
Leontyne Price
Cab Calloway
Eva Jessye Choir
RIAS-Unterhaltungsorchester

Conductor

Alexander Smallens

About

This is one of the most important issues of historic opera recordings ever released. In 1952, the US State Department supported a world tour of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy & Bess which was seen in many countries in Europe and in South America. It was the tour which made an international star of the great black soprano Leontyne Price, who thereafter never recorded the opera complete.

We are pleased to present a broadcast recording from September 1952 in Berlin, sung in English, of a live performance of the complete opera from the opera house. The sound has been completely updated with modern technology, and the ‘feel’ of a live performance (which this is) adds a dimension to the experience which is utterly authentic and most exciting.

Live Recording, Titania Palast, Berlin – 21 September 1952.
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