Original Jacket Collection
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The Original Jacket Collection is a Classical Music boxed set reissue series undertaken by Sony Classical.

Format

Compact Discs in the series mostly replicate the content of the original LP
LP 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
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
  • Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1955 recording)


Disc 2
  • Partitas Nos. 5 in G major, BWV 829; Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830
  • Well Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp minor, BWV 883; Prelude and Fugue in E Major, BWV 878


Disc 3
  • Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971
  • Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825 / Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826


Disc 4
  • The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080


Disc 5
  • Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 1-13 BWV 846-858


Disc 6 - 9
  • Well Tempered Clavier, Book I Nos. 14-16, BWV 859-861
  • Two-Part Inventions
  • Three Part Inventions
  • Toccatas


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
  • Le Sacre du Printemps


Disk 2
  • The Firebird (Compete ballet)


Disk 3
  • Symphony of Psalms
  • Symphony in C


Disk 4
  • Firebird Suite
  • Petruska Suite


Disk 5
  • Fanfare for a New Theater
  • The Owl and the Pussy-cat
  • Movements for piano and orchestra
  • Septet
  • Anthem: The Dove Descending Breaks the Air
  • Double Canon
  • Epitaphium für das Grabmal des Prinzen Max Egon zu Fürstenberg
  • Elegy for J. F. K.
  • A Sermon, a Narrative & a Prayer


Disk 6
  • L'histoire du soldat
  • Pulcinella


Disk 7
  • Præludium, for jazz band
  • Pastorale
  • Ragtime for 11 instruments
  • Octet for wind instruments
  • Tango for chamber orchestra
  • Concertino for 12 instruments
  • Ebony Concerto, for clarinet & jazz band (Benny Goodman
    Benny Goodman
    Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...

    , clarinet)


Disk 8
  • The Star-Spangled Banner
  • Songs for voice, flute, harp & guitar
  • Russian Peasant Songs
  • Renard
  • King of the Stars
  • Babel
  • Ave Maria
  • Credo
  • Pater Noster
  • Choral-Variations “Von Himmel hoch”


Disc 9
  • Fireworks (Feu D'artifice), Op. 4
  • Ode, elegiacal chant for orchestra
  • Norwegian Moods
  • Circus Polka
  • Ebony Concerto
  • Russian Maiden's Song (Parasha's Aria)
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
  • Chopin: Sonata in B-flat Minor, Op. 35
  • Rachmaninoff: Etude-Tableaux in C Major, Op. 33, No. 2 / Etude-Tableaux in E-flat Minor, Op. 39, No. 5
  • Schumann: Arabeske, Op. 18
  • Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 19 in D Minor, S. 244, No. 19 (arr. Horowitz)


The Sound of Horowitz
  • Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 / Toccata, Op. 7
  • Scarlatti: Sonata in E Major, K. 531 / Sonata in A Major, K. 322 / Sonata in G Major, K. 455
  • Schubert: Impromptu in G-flat Major, D. 899, No. 3
  • Scriabin: Poeme in F-sharp Major, Op. 32, No. 2 / Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1 / Etude in D-sharp Minor, Op. 8, No. 12


Horowitz in his first recordings of…
  • Beethoven: Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathetique"
  • Debussy: Three Preludes from Book II
  • Chopin: Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12 "Revolutionary" / Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7


----
  • Chopin: Scherzo in B Minor, Op. 20


Horowitz plays Scarlatti
  • Scarlatti: Sonatas K. 162, K. 474, K. 198, K. 491, K. 481, K. 39, K. 547, K. 197, K. 25, K. 52, K. 201, K. 303


An Historic Return: Horowitz at Carnegie Hall A recording of his first concert in twelve years. (2 CDs)
  • Bach – Busoni: Toccata in C Major, BWV 564/565
  • Schumann: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17 / Träumerai
  • Scriabin: Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 “Black Mass” / Poeme in F-sharp Major, Op. 32 / Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1
  • Chopin: Mazurka in C-sharp Minor, Op. 30, No. 4 / Etude in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8 / Ballade in G Minor, Op. 23
  • Debussy: Serenade for the Doll
  • Moszkowski: Etude in A-flat Major, Op. 72, No. 11


Horowitz - Schumann
  • Schumann: Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck / Kreisleriana, Op. 16


Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff
  • Sonata in B-flat Minor, Op. 36 / Prelude in G-sharp Minor, Op. 32, No. 12 / Moment Musicale in B Minor, Op. 16, No. 3 / Etude – Tableaux in E-flat Minor, Op. 33, No. 6 / Etude – Tableaux in C Major, Op. 33, No. 2 / Etude – Tableaux in D Major, Op. 39, No. 9


Horowitz plays Chopin
  • Polonaise Fantasie, Op. 61 / Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4 / Etude in G-flat Major, Op. 10, No. 4 “Black Key” / Introduction & Rondo in E-flat Major, Op. 16 / Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2 / Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53


Horowitz plays Scriabin
  • Album Leaf, Op. 45, No. 1 / Etude in F-sharp Minor, Op. 8, No. 2 / Etude in B-flat Minor, Op. 8, No. 11 / Etude in D-flat Major, Op. 8, No. 10 / Etude in A-flat Major, Op. 8, No. 8 / Etude in F-sharp Major, Op. 42, No. 3 / Etude in F-sharp Major, Op. 42, No. 4 / Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 42, No. 5 / Sonata No. 10, Op. 70 / Poèmes, Op. 69: Nos. 1 & 2 / Vers la flamme, Op. 72
1962–1973 Columbia Masterworks
10 Vladimir Horowitz
RCA Recordings (Repackaging of 1990s Red Seal & Gold Seal CDs)

Clementi
  • Sonata in C Major, (“Sonata quasi Concerto”) Op.33 No.3 / Sonata in G Minor, Op.34 No.2 / Sonata in F Minor, Op.13 No.6 / Sonata in F-sharp Minor, Op.25 No.5 / Rondo from Sonata in B-flat Major, Op.24 No.2


Chopin, Volume 1
  • Polonaise-Fantasie, Op. 61 / Ballade in G Minor, Op. 23 / Barcarolle, Op. 50 / Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7 / Etude in G-flat Major, Op. 10, No, 5 “Black Keys” / Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52 / Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1 “L’adieu” / Andante Spianiato and Grand Polonaise in E-flat Major, Op. 22


Chopin, Volume 2
  • Sonata in B-flat Minor, Op. 35 / Nocturnes: in E-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2; in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 / Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 29 / Etudes, Op. 10: No. 3 in E Major; No. 4 in C-sharp Minor / Ballade in G minor, op. 23


Schumann
  • Sonata in F Minor, Op. 14 (Concerto without Orchestra) / Humoreske, Op. 20 / Fantasiestücke, Op. 111 / Nachtstücke, Op. 23, Nos. 3 & 4


Scriabin
  • Sonatas: No. 3 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 23 / Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
  • Preludes: Op. 11, Nos. 1, 3, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16 / Op. 13, No. 6 / Op. 15, No. 2 / Op. 16, Nos. 1, 4 / Op. 27, No. 1 / Op. 48, No. 3 / Op. 51, No. 2 / Op. 59, No. 2 / Op. 67, No. 1
  • Etudes: Op. 8, Nos. 7, 12 / Op. 42, No. 5


20th Century piano music
  • Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83 / Toccata, Op. 11
  • Barber: Sonata, Op. 26
  • Kabalevsky: Sonata No. 3 in F Major, Op. 46
  • Faure: Nocturne in B Minor, Op. 119
  • Poulenc: Presto in B-flat Major, FP 70


Encores
  • Bizet - Horowitz: Carmen Variations
  • Saint-Saens – Liszt – Horowitz: Danse Macabre
  • W. A. Mozart: Rondo alla turca (from Sonata, K. 331)
  • Mendelssohn: Wedding March and Variations (arr. Liszt – Horowitz / Sings Without Words: Elegie, Op. 85, No. 4, Spring Song, Op. 62, No. 2, The Shepherd’s Complaint, Op. 67, No. 5 / Scherzo a capriccio,
  • Debussy: Serenade to the Doll (from Children’s Corner Suite)
  • Moszkowski: Etudes, Op. 72: A-flat Major, No. 11, F Major, No. 2 / Etincelles, Op. 36, No. 6
  • Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53
  • Schumann: Träumerai
  • Liszt: Rakóczy March (arr. Horowitz) / Valse oubliée No. 1
  • Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5
  • Sousa – Horowitz: The Stars and Stripes Forever


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
  • Rachmaninoff Third Concerto


(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)
  • Piano Sonata in B-flat Minor, Op. 36


(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
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 Eroica
  • How a great symphony was written, Leonard Bernstein, speaker


Disc 2
  • Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story / Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront.


Disc 3
  • Copland: Billy the Kid / Rodeo


Disc 4
  • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Columbia Symphony Orchestra
    Columbia Symphony Orchestra
    The Columbia Symphony Orchestra was an orchestra formed by Columbia Records. It provided a vehicle for some of Columbia's better known recording artists to record using only company resources.-Bruno Walter:...

     / Leonard Bernstein, pianist) / An American in Paris


Disc 5
  • Haydn: Symphony No. 82 The Bear / Symphony No. 83 The Hen


Disc 6
  • Ives: Symphony No. 2
  • Leonard Bernstein discusses Ives


Disc 7
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 7


Disc 8
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47


Disc 9
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 82 / Pohjola' s Daughter, Op. 49


Disc 10
  • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
Columbia Masterworks
10 Bernstein Conducts Bernstein

Disc 1
  • Overture to Candide
  • Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • On the Waterfront, symphonic suite
  • Fancy Free


Disc 2
  • Symphony No.1 Jeremiah
  • Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety (1965 version) (Philippe Entremont
    Philippe Entremont
    Philippe Entremont is a French pianist and conductor. He has made many recordings during his career, notably one in 1961 of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic....

    , pianist)
  • I Hate Music, cycle of 5 kid songs for soprano & piano
  • La Bonne Cuisine: 4 recipes for voice & piano


Disc 3
  • Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety (1949 version) (Lukas Foss
    Lukas Foss
    Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...

    , pianist)
  • Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)


Disc 4
  • Symphony No. 3 Kaddish
  • Chichester Psalms


Disc 5
  • Prelude, Fugue & Riffs
  • Dance Episodes from On the Town
  • Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)
  • Fancy Free


Disc 6
  • Dybbuk


Disc 7
  • Trouble in Tahiti


Disc 8
  • On the Town


Discs 9 & 10
  • Mass
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)
    • Symphonies 1-9
    • Overtures: Leonore 1-3, Fidelio, Egmont, Coriolan, King Stephen
    • The Creatures of Prometheus - Complete ballet (Louis Lane
      Louis Lane
      Louis Lane is an American conductor.Louis Gardner Lane was born in Eagle Pass, Texas. He studied composition with Kent Kennan at the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his bachelor’s in music degree in 1943, and with Bohuslav Martinů at the Tanglewood Music Center , and with Bernard...

      , Conductor)
    • Mozart: Symphony K. 551
Columbia Mastwerworks
10 George Szell Plays and Conducts Mozart
(all recordings feature the Cleveland Orchestra with Szell unless otherwise specified)
    • Symphonies: K. 200, K. 319, K. 385, K. 543, K. 550, K. 551 (Stereo Versions)
    • Symphonies: K. 543, K. 550, K. 551 (First CD release of Mono versions)
    • Divertimento, K. 131
    • Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364
    • Serenades: K. 525, K. 320
    • Clarinet Concerto, K. 622 (Robert Marcellus
      Robert Marcellus
      Robert Marcellus was an American classical clarinetist and teacher. Marcellus is best known for his long tenure as principal clarinetist of the Cleveland Orchestra.-Biography:...

      , Clarinet)
    • Piano Concerto, K. 503 (Leon Fleisher
      Leon Fleisher
      Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...

      , Pianist)
    • Sonatas for Violin and Piano: K. 376, K. 301, K. 304, K. 296 (George Szell, Pianist / Rafael Druian, Violin)
    • Piano Quartets: K. 478, K. 493 (George Szell, Pianist / Budapest String Quartet)
    • Divertimento, K. 334 (Louis Lane, Conductor)
    • Minuet in C Major (Erich Leinsdorf
      Erich Leinsdorf
      Erich Leinsdorf was a naturalized American Austrian conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality...

      , Conductor)
    • Requiem: Lacrimosa (Robert Shaw
      Robert Shaw (conductor)
      Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship...

      , Conductor)
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:
  • Symphony No. 1 in D major ('Titan')
  • Symphony No. 2 in C minor ('Resurrection')
  • Symphony No. 4 in G major
  • Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
  • Wayfarer Songs
  • Das Lied von der Erde
  • Symphony No. 9 in D major
  • A Working Portrait: Recording the Mahler Ninth Symphony
  • A Talking Portrait: Bruno Walter in Conversation


Bruckner:
  • Symphony No. 4 in E flat ('Romantic'), WAB 104
  • Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107
  • Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109
  • Te Deum in C major, WAB 45


Wagner:
  • Overture & Bacchanale to Tannhäuser
  • Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Overture to The Flying Dutchman
  • Prelude to Act I & Good Friday Music to Parsifal
  • Overture to Act I of Lohengrin
  • Siegfried Idyll
  • Bruno Walter Rehearses the Siegfried-Idyll
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
  • J. S. Bach: concerto in D Minor for two violins, BWV. 1043 (New Symphony Orchestra of London / Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor)
  • W. A. Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364 (RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
    RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
    The RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra was an American symphony orchestra founded in 1940 by the RCA Victor music label. Based in Camden, New Jersey, the orchestra made numerous recordings up through the early 1960s with notable conductors like Leopold Stokowski and Leonard Bernstein. A number of their...

     / Izler Solomon
    Izler Solomon
    Izler Solomon was an American orchestra conductor, active mostly in the Midwest....

    , Conductor
  • Brahms: concerto in A Minor for Vioin and Cello (Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...

    , Cello / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Alfred Wallenstein
    Alfred Wallenstein
    Alfred Wallenstein was an American cellist and conductor, born in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 17, he joined the San Francisco Symphony as a cellist. He subsequently played cello with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra before becoming principal cello of the New...

    , Conductor)


Beethoven & Mendelssohn
  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
  • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64


(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
  • Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
  • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35


(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
  • Bloch: Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 26 / Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
  • Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 37


Sibelius, Prokofiev, & Glazunov
  • Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47


(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
  • Prokofiev: Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 63


(Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch, Conductor)
  • Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 82


(RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Walter Hendl, Conductor)

Korngold, Lalo, Rosza, & Waxman
  • Korngold: Violin Concerto
  • Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole
  • Rosza: Violin Concerto
  • Waxman: Carmen Fantasy


J. S. Bach (2 CDs)
  • Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001 / Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003 / Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005
  • Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 / Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 / Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006


Jascha Heifetz in Concert Last public concert (2 CDs)
(Brooks Smith, Pianist)
  • Franck: Sonata in A Major
  • Richard Strauss: Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18
  • Bach: Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006
  • Bloch: Baal Shem No 02, Nigun
  • Debussy: La plus que lente
  • Rachmaninoff: Etude-Tableaux in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 4
  • Falla: Nana
  • Kreisler: La chasse in the Style of Cartier
  • Ravel: Tzigane
  • Tedesco: Sea Murmurs
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
  • J. S. Bach: Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor ("Double"), BWV 1043
  • Vivaldi: Concerto for 3 violins, strings & continuo in F major, RV 551
  • Mozart: Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola & orchestra in E flat major, K. 364 (K. 320d)


Disc 2
  • Brahms: Sonata for violin & piano No. 1 in G major ("Regen"), Op. 78 / Sonata for violin & piano No. 2 in A major, Op. 100 / Sonata for violin & piano No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108


Disc 3
  • Chausson: Concert, for violin, piano & string quartet in D major, Op. 21


Disc 4
  • Mozart: Duo for violin & viola No. 1 in G major, K. 423 / Duo for violin & viola No. 2 in B flat major, K. 424
  • Leclair: Sonata for 2 violins in F major, Op. 3, No. 4


Disc 5
  • Paganini: Sonata for violin & guitar in A minor (Centone di sonate, Letter A/1), MS 112, No. 1 / Sonata for violin & guitar in E minor, Op. 3/6, MS 27, No. 6 / Sonata concertata, for guitar & violin in A major, Op. 61, MS 2 / Cantabile, for violin & piano in D major, (MS 109)
  • Guiliani: Duo Concertant for violin & guitar in E minor, Op. 25


Disc 6
  • Prokofiev: Sonata for violin & piano No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 / Sonata for violin & piano No. 2 in D major, Op. 94 / Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63


Disc 7
  • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
  • Dvorák: Romance for violin & orchestra in F minor, B. 39 (Op. 11)
  • Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47


Disc 8
  • Lalo: Symphonie espagnole in D minor, Op. 21
  • Ravel: Tzigane


Disc 9
  • Dohnányi: Serenade for violin, viola & cello in C major, Op. 10
  • Beethoven: Serenade for violin, viola & cello in D major, Op. 8


Disk 10
  • Morricone: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso - Love Theme (for the film Cinema Paradiso)
  • Raksin: Laura, film score (Theme)
  • Williams: Far and Away, film score (Theme) / Schindler's List, film score (Theme) / Sabrina, film score (1995) (Theme)
  • Hupfeld: As Time Goes By, song
  • Bernstein: Age of Innocence, film score (Theme)
  • Walton: Henry V, film score (Touch her Soft Lips and Part)
  • Chaplin: Smile (as used in the film "Modern Times" ) (spurious; by Geoffrey Persons)
  • Barry: Out of Africa, film score (Main Title)
  • Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood, film score (Marian & Robin Love Theme)
  • Young: Stella by starlight, song (from the 1944 film "The Uninvited")
  • Legrand: I Will Wait for You (Je ne pourrai jamais vivre sans toi), song (from the film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg")
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
  • The Pines of Rome, P. 141 / The Fountains of Rome, P. 106 / Roman Festivals, P. 157


Russian Showpieces
  • Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35


Rachmaninoff
  • Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 (Columbia recording with cuts) / Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14


Tchaikovsky
  • Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 / Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48


Bartok
  • Concerto for Orchestra, BB 127 / The Miraculous Mandarin (Suite), BB 82 / Two Pictures, BB. 59


(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

  • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
  • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35


Shostakovich
  • Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10 / Cello Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 107 (Mstislav Rostropovich
    Mstislav Rostropovich
    Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

    , Cellist)


Bach: Orchestral Transcriptions
  • / Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 / Arioso from Concerto for harpsichord, strings & continuo in F minor, BWV 1056 / Minuet in G major BWV 114 / Musette in D major BWV Anh. 126 / Bist du bei mir
    Bist du bei mir
    Bist du bei mir is an aria in the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. It was therefore attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, but the melody is part of the Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel opera Diomedes, oder die triumphierende Unschuld that was performed in Bayreuth on November 16, 1718. The opera score...

    , BWV 508 / March in D major BWV 122 / Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 302 / Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring, BWV 147 / Fugue in G minor ('Little'), BWV 578 / Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 / Prelude in E major, BWV 937 / Air on the G String, BWV 1068 / Sheep May Safely Graze, BWV 208 / Komm, süsser Tod, BWV 478 / Sleepers Awake, BWV 140


The Bach Album
  • Toccata, Adagio and Fuguein C major, BWV 564 / Symphony for double orchestra 'No. 26' in E flat major, Op. 18, No. 1 / Symphony for double orchestra in D major Op. 18, No. 3 / Sinfonia in D minor, F. 65 / Concerto for violin in D major, H. 497


The Romantic Philadelphia Strings
  • Barber: Adagio for Strings
    Adagio for Strings
    Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber, arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11. Barber finished the arrangement in 1936, the same year as he wrote the quartet...

  • Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
    Cavalleria rusticana
    Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play written by Giovanni Verga based on his short story. Considered one of the classic verismo operas, it premiered on May 17, 1890 at the Teatro...

  • Sibelius: Valse Triste
  • Grieg: Lyric Suite
  • MacDowell: To a Wild Rose
  • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves / Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
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...


  • Chopin: Ballades, Mazurkas, Nocturnes, Polonaises, Scherzos, Sonatas, Waltzes, and assorted solo works from Rubinstein's stereo cycle.
  • Also includes 1946 monaural versions of Op. 28 Preludes and Op. 35 Sonata.
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
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