Gershwin: Porgy And Bess
by Simon Rattle / London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Gershwin: Porgy And Bess by Simon Rattle / London Philharmonic Orchestra
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 80,293rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 3 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (927th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (8,698th)
Award Best albums of all time (80,293rd)

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Gershwin: Porgy And Bess track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Introduction, Jasbo Brown Solo, Chorus (Jasbro Brown, Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Summertime (Clara, Chorus)
Average Rating: 78 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Oh, Nobody Knows When The Lawd Is Goin' To Call (Mingo, Chorus, Sporting Life, Jake, Serena, Robbins, Jim, Clara, Crap Shooters (Male Chorus))
Average Rating: 77 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Give Him To Me... Lissen To Yo' Daddy Warn You... A Woman Is A Sometime Thing (Jake, Mingo, Sporting Life, Chorus, Baby, Clara, Robbins, Peter, Lily, Maria)
Average Rating: 77 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Here's The Ol' Crap Shark!... No, No, Brudder (Jake, Mingo, Porgy, Sporting Life, Robbins, Jim, Maria, Serena)
Average Rating: 76 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Here Comes Big Boy! (Mingo, Jake, Jim, Crown, Porgy, Serena, Bess, Robbins, Chorus, Sporting Life)
Average Rating: 76 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Six To Make! (Sporting Life, Jim, Jake, Mingo, Porgy, Crown, Robbins, Maria, Serena, Bess, Chorus)
Average Rating: 76 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 1: Jesus, He's Killed Him!... That You, Sportin' Life? (Jake, Serena, Bess, Crown, Sporting Life, Maria)
Average Rating: 77 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 2: Where Is Brudder Robbins?... Come On, Sister! (Chorus, Serena, Maria, Bess, Jake, Peter, Porgy, Clara)
Average Rating: 76 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 2: Overflow, Overflow (Chorus, Porgy)
Average Rating: 76 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 2: A Saucer-Burying Set-Up, I See (Detective, Serena, Lily, Peter, Porgy, Policeman, Maria, Jake, Chorus)
Average Rating: 76 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 2: My Man's Gone Now (Serena, Chorus)
Average Rating: 78 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 2: How De Saucer Stan' Now, My Sister? (Undertaker, Serena, Jake, Porgy
Average Rating: 76 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act I, Scene 2: Oh, The Train Is At The Station (Bess, Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (3 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Oh, I'm Agoin' Out To The Blackfish Banks (Jake, Chorus)
Average Rating: 78 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Mus' Be You Mens Forgot About De Picnic... Oh, I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (Annie, Jake, Clara, Porgy, Chorus, Serena, Maria)
Average Rating: 78 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Lissen There, What I Tells You... I Hates Yo' Struttin' Style (Maria, Serena, Sporting Life)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Mornin', Lawyer, Lookin' For Somebody? (Maria, Frazier, Porgy, Bess, Chorus, Lily, Scipio, Annie, Serena)
Average Rating: 76 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Boy! Come Here, Boy! (Archdale, Scipio, Clara, Serena, Mingo, Jake, Porgy, Frazier, Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Buzzard Keep On Flyin' Over (Porgy, Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 1: 'Lo Bess, Goin' To Picnic? (Sporting Life, Bess, Porgy)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Honey, We Sure Goin' Strut Our Stuff Today!... Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Jake, Porgy, Bess)
Average Rating: 78 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 1: Oh, I Can't Sit Down (Chorus, Maria, Bess, Porgy)
Average Rating: 78 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 2: I Ain't Got No Shame (Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 2: It Ain't Necessarily So... Shame On All You Sinners (Sporting Life, Chorus, Serena, Maria)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 2: Crown! (Bess, Crown)
Average Rating: 76 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 2: Oh, What You Want Wid Bess? (Bess, Crown)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Honey, Dat's All De Breakfast I Got Time For (Jake, Fisherman, Jim, Nelson, Maria, Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Take Yo' Han's Off Me (Bess, Serena, Maria, Peter, Porgy)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Oh, Doctor Jesus (Serena, Peter, Porgy, Lily)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Oh Dey's So Fresh An' Fine (Strawberry Woman, Peter, Woman, Annie, Crab Man, Porgy, Maria)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Porgy, Porgy, Dat You There, Ain't It? (Bess, Porgy)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 3: I Wants To Stay Here (Porgy, Bess)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 3: Why You Been Out On That Wharf So Long, Clara? (Maria, Clara)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 4: Oh, Doctor Jesus (Chorus, Porgy, Clara, Serena, Sporting Life)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 4: One Of Dese Mornings You Goin' To Rise Up Singin' (Clara, Chorus, Porgy, Bess)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 4: Oh, Dere's Somebody Knockin' At De Do' (Chorus, Peter, Maria, Lily, Mingo, Other Woman)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 4: You Is A Nice Parcel Of Christians! (Crown, Serena, Bess, Porgy, Woman, Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 4: A Red-Headed Woman Make A Choo-Choo Jump Its Track (Crown, Chorus, Clara, Bess)
Average Rating: 78 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act II, Scene 4: All Right, I'm Goin' Out To Get Clara... Oh, Doctor Jesus (Crown, Porgy, Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 1: Clara, Clara, Don't You Be Downhearted... You Low-Life Skunk, Ain' You Got No Shame (Chrous, Sporting Life, Maria)
Average Rating: 76 (1 vote)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 1: Summertime... (Porgy Kills Crown) (Bess, Porgy)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 2: Wait For Us At The Corner (Detective, Annie, Serena, Other Woman, Coroner)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 2: Come Out Here, Both Of You (Dectective, Coroner, Porgy)
Average Rating: 76 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 2: Oh, Lawd, What I Goin' Do?... Oh, Gawd! They Goin' Make Him Look On Crown's Face! (Porgy, Bess, Sporting Life, Policeman)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 2: Listen: There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York (Sporting Life, Bess)
Average Rating: 78 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Introduction (Orchestra)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Good Mornin', Sistuh!... It's Porgy Comin' Home (Chorus, Children, Mingo, Porgy)
Average Rating: 78 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Dem White Folks Sure Ain' Put Nuttin' Over On This Baby (Porgy, Lily)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Here Mingo, What's De Matter Wid You All? (Porgy)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Where's Bess? (Porgy, Maria, Serena)
Average Rating: 76 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Bess Is Gone (Lily, Porgy, Serena, Mingo, Maria, Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0
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Porgy And Bess: Act III, Scene 3: Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way (Porgy, Chorus)
Average Rating: 77 (2 votes)Comments: View 0

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Overall rank: 80,293rd | 1980s rank: 8,698th | 1989 rank: 927th

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