Original Jacket Collection
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The Original Jacket Collection is a Classical Music boxed set reissue series undertaken by Sony Classical.
albums. In addition to the musical programming, the original LP front and back covers are duplicated. Most Original Jacket boxes contain ten CDs. Exceptions have included a 13 CD set of Mahler, Brucker, and Wagner conducted by Bruno Walter
, and 70 and 80 CD sets for Vladimir Horowitz
and Glenn Gould
, respectively.
In 2010, the series name was changed to Original Album Collection.
Format
Compact Discs in the series mostly replicate the content of the original LPLP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
albums. In addition to the musical programming, the original LP front and back covers are duplicated. Most Original Jacket boxes contain ten CDs. Exceptions have included a 13 CD set of Mahler, Brucker, and Wagner conducted by Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter was a German-born conductor. He is considered one of the best known conductors of the 20th century. Walter was born in Berlin, but is known to have lived in several countries between 1933 and 1939, before finally settling in the United States in 1939...
, and 70 and 80 CD sets for Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...
and Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach...
, respectively.
In 2010, the series name was changed to Original Album Collection.
Issues in the series
The sets have been issued since the series inception.No. of Discs | Set Details | Recording Year(s) | Original Record Label |
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9 CDs + 1 Enhanced CD | Glenn Gould Glenn Gould Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach... plays Bach Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
Disc 5
Disc 6 - 9
Disc 10 - Enhanced multimedia CD |
Columbia Masterworks | |
80 | The Complete Original Jacket Collection Gould's complete recordings for Columbia Masterworks |
1955–1982 | Columbia Masterworks |
9 + 1 CD-ROM | Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor.... Conducts Stravinsky Disc 1
Disk 2
Disk 3
Disk 4
Disk 5
Disk 6
Disk 7
Disk 8
Disc 9
|
Columbia Masterworks | |
10 | Vladimir Horowitz Vladimir Horowitz Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early... Columbia Recordings Columbia Records presents Vladimir Horowitz
The Sound of Horowitz
Horowitz in his first recordings of…
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Horowitz plays Scarlatti
An Historic Return: Horowitz at Carnegie Hall A recording of his first concert in twelve years. (2 CDs)
Horowitz - Schumann
Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff
Horowitz plays Chopin
Horowitz plays Scriabin
|
1962–1973 | Columbia Masterworks |
10 | Vladimir Horowitz
RCA Recordings (Repackaging of 1990s Red Seal & Gold Seal CDs) Clementi
Chopin, Volume 1
Chopin, Volume 2
Schumann
Scriabin
20th Century piano music
Encores
Brahms Second and Tchaikovsky First Concertos (NBC Symphony Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra The NBC Symphony Orchestra was a radio orchestra established by David Sarnoff of the National Broadcasting Company especially for conductor Arturo Toscanini... / Arturo Toscanini Arturo Toscanini Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th century, he was renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory... , Conductor) Golden Jubilee Concert
(New York Philharmonic New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five"... / Eugene Ormandy Eugene Ormandy Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.-Early life:Born Jenő Blau in Budapest, Hungary, Ormandy began studying violin at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music at the age of five... , Conductor)
(1999 High Performance Remastering) |
1940–1982 | RCA Red Seal |
70 | Vladimir Horowitz - The Complete RCA, Columbia, and Sony recordings (See article for detailed contents) |
1928–1989 | RCA Red Seal, Columbia Masterworks, Sony Classical |
10 | Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim... - Original Jacket Collection (recordings with the New York Philharmonic unless otherwise specified) Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
Disc 5
Disc 6
Disc 7
Disc 8
Disc 9
Disc 10
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Columbia Masterworks | |
10 | Bernstein Conducts Bernstein
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
Disc 5
Disc 6
Disc 7
Disc 8
Discs 9 & 10
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Columbia Masterworks | |
10 | George Szell George Szell George Szell , originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer... conducts Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of... (all recordings feature The Cleveland Orchestra with Szell unless otherwise specified)
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Columbia Mastwerworks | |
10 | George Szell Plays and Conducts Mozart
(all recordings feature the Cleveland Orchestra with Szell unless otherwise specified)
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Columbia Masterworks | |
13 | Bruno Walter Bruno Walter Bruno Walter was a German-born conductor. He is considered one of the best known conductors of the 20th century. Walter was born in Berlin, but is known to have lived in several countries between 1933 and 1939, before finally settling in the United States in 1939... conducts Famous Mahler and Bruckner Symphonies Mahler:
Bruckner:
Wagner:
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Columbia Masterworks | |
10 | Heifetz Jascha Heifetz Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :... : The Original Jacket Collection Double Concertos
Beethoven & Mendelssohn
(Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center... / Charles Munch, Conductor) Brahms & Tchaikovsky
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1891, the Symphony makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival... / Fritz Reiner Fritz Reiner Frederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.-Biography:... , Conductor) Bloch & Vieuxtemps
Sibelius, Prokofiev, & Glazunov
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Walter Hendl Walter Hendl Walter Hendl was an American conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:Hendl was born in West New York, New Jersey, and later went on to study with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. From 1939 to 1941 he taught at Sarah Lawrence College in New York City... , Conductor
(Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch, Conductor)
(RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Walter Hendl, Conductor) Korngold, Lalo, Rosza, & Waxman
J. S. Bach (2 CDs)
Jascha Heifetz in Concert Last public concert (2 CDs) (Brooks Smith, Pianist)
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RCA Red Seal & Columbia Masterworks | |
10 | Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries.-Early life:... Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
Disc 5
Disc 6
Disc 7
Disc 8
Disc 9
Disk 10
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RCA Red Seal | |
10 |
Eugene Ormandy Eugene Ormandy Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.-Early life:Born Jenő Blau in Budapest, Hungary, Ormandy began studying violin at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music at the age of five... Respighi
Russian Showpieces
Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky
Bartok
(Isaac Stern Isaac Stern Isaac Stern was a Ukrainian-born violinist. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.-Biography:Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenets, Ukraine. He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco... , Violinist
Shostakovich
Bach: Orchestral Transcriptions
The Bach Album
The Romantic Philadelphia Strings
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Columbia Masterworks | |
10 | Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein KBE was a Polish-American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers...
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1946–1965 | RCA Red Seal |
11 | David Geringas David Geringas David Geringas is a world-renowned cellist and conductor who studied under Mstislav Rostropovich. In 1970 he won the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition... |
Eurodisc/Ariola | |
15 | Montserrat Caballé Montserrat Caballé Montserrat Caballé is a Spanish operatic soprano. Although she sang a wide variety of roles, she is best known as an exponent of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.... |
RCA Red Seal | |
103 | Jascha Heifetz Jascha Heifetz Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :... - Complete Album Collection |
1917–1972 | RCA Red Seal & Columbia Masterworks |
144 | Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein KBE was a Polish-American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers... - Complete Album Collection |
1928–1976 | RCA Red Seal |