The fourty-fifth classical recording: #780 George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess
After a number of shorter pieces, we're listening to a three hour opera. Unlike the others, it's in English, set in more modern times and so more comprehensible on multiple levels.Still, it's odd to hear classic songs with an operatic bend (and it does sound more impressive that way). There's a contemporary feel to it beyond that, though, more musical-like with a story still (mostly) told through song, but feeling more modern. This seems to extend everywhere and it makes for an amazing soundtrack that way. Even that is enough to tell the (at the time controversial) story, a tragic love story made more complex through the circumstances in which they happen.