George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

A 1940 Decca recording of selections from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, featuring singers Anne Brown and Todd Duncan with the Decca Symphony Orchestra. The music blends operatic vocal writing with blues, jazz, spirituals, and American popular song idioms, presenting orchestral and vocal arrangements of key numbers from Gershwin's score. This release is notable as an early commercial document preserving the voices closely associated with the 1935 production, presented in the warm, single-channel sonics typical of prewar studio recordings.