Gershwin, George - recordings Porgy and Bess (1935) Complete Opera (with minor cuts): Lawrence Winters, Camilla Williams, Inez Mathews, Avon Long, Warren Coleman, Edward Mathews, J. Rosamund Johnson Chorus, with Lehman Engle conducting the chorus and orchestra; Columbia OSL-162. Excerpts from the Opera (includes renditions freely derived from score): Todd Duncan, Anne Brown, the Eva Jessye Choir, and members of the original cast, with Alexander Smallens conducting the Decca Symphony Orchestra; Decca DL-79024. (A simulated stereo version of the original monaural recording). Leontyne Price, William Varfield, McHenry Boatwright, and John W.Bubbles, with Skitch Henderson, conductor; RCA Victor LSC-2679. Douglas Singers, and orchestra; World Wide 20010. Rise Stevens, Robert Merrill, and the Robert Shaw Chorale; RCA Victor LM- 1124. Cab Calloway, Helen Thigpen, and others; RCA Victor LPM-3158. Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and orchestra; Verve 64068. Miles Davis featured; orchestra conducted by Gil Evans; Columbia CA-8085. Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McRae, and orchestra; Decca DL-78854. Orchestral Syntheses of the Opera: "Catfish Row" (a five-movement suite from Porgy and Bess by G.G.): Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel, conductor; Westminister 14063, 18850. "A Symphonic Picture" (by Robert Russell Bennett): RCA Symphony Orchestra, Robert Russell Bennett, conductor; RCA Victor VICS-1491. Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor; Columbia MS-7258, MG-30073, MS-7518. Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, conductor; RCA Victor LSC-3130. Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati, conductor; Mercury 90394. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, conductor; Command S-11307. "Porgy and Bess Suite (by Morton Gould): Morton Gould's Orchestra; RCA Victor LM-6033. Movie: Porgy and Bess (1959) Robert McFerrin and Adele Addison are the voices of Porgy and Bess -not Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge, as the record jacket would imply - in this recording taken from the sound track of Samuel Goldwyn's movie production of the opera. Andre Previn conducts the orchestra and chorus. These selections are heard: "Overture," "Summertime," "A Woman is a Sometime Thing," "Gone,Gone, Gone," "My Man's Gone Now," "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'," "Bess, You Is My Woman," "Oh, I Can't Sit Down," "It Ain't Necessarily So," "I Ain' Got No Shame," "What You Want wid Bess," "Strawberry Woman," "Crab Man," "I Loves You, Porgy," There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York," "Oh, Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?," and "Oh Lawd, I'm on My Way"; Columbia OS-2016. 10/88