Guild: GHCD231314
Gershwin - Porgy & Bess (complete)
Our Price: £11.95 (£10.17 ex VAT)
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Artist(s): William Warfield, Leontyne Price, Cab Calloway, Eva Jessye Choir, RIAS-Unterhaltungsorchester
Conductor(s): Alexander Smallens
Release Date: 25th May 2008
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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.
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.
