Porgy & Bess (1935)
商品の説明
Amazonレビュー
This is the first recording of George Gershwin's classic to incorporate the composer's final revisions for the 1935 premiere. Apparently it differs from the original published score though it wont sound all that different to a layman whos heard the versions dating from the 1970s onward, which replaced spoken dialogue with the sung recitatives Gershwin wanted. Musicology aside, there are gains and losses in this new set. The gains are a tighter, more focused narrative line due to the cuts, which amount to about half-an-hour of music. But those cuts are losses too, since they include some familiar and well-loved numbers. The performance is a good one though, if not necessarily preferable to previous recordings by Maazel, DeMain, and Rattle, all of which have their own shortcomings. Alvy Powell makes for a finely honed Porgy, and while one could ask for a bigger-voiced Bess, Marquita Lister sings and acts well. Many of the smaller roles are admirable too, with Lester Lynch scoring as a menacing Crown but Nicole Cabell, the Clara, has a wide vibrato on sustained high notes marring her "Summertime," here performed in the faster tempo of the 1935 score. --Dan Davis
登録情報
- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : はい
- 製品サイズ : 12.7 x 14.61 x 1.14 cm; 199 g
- メーカー : Decca
- EAN : 0028947578772
- レーベル : Decca
- ASIN : B000H0MGTG
- ディスク枚数 : 2
- カスタマーレビュー:
他の国からのトップレビュー
The performances are not bad. I wouldn't walk out of a performance sung in this fashion. But frankly, most of these singers would never be hired to sing other opera. The voices spread, the top notes are iffy, and the diction is spotty. Mauceri is also rather boring. I bought it hoping that at least the performances would be good. Sorry, but they aren't. This is a pity, since no other operas are getting studio recordings. This one is up against the Houston Grand, Sir Simon Rattle's account and even Maazel, all of whom have performance stars above this meager effort.