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The Original Jacket Collection is a classical music boxed set reissue series undertaken by Sony Classical.
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The Original Jacket Collection is a classical music boxed set reissue series undertaken by Sony Classical.
Compact Discs in the series mostly replicate the content of the original LP 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. [1]
In 2010, the series name was changed to Original Album Collection.
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 plays Bach
| Columbia Masterworks | |
| 80 | The Complete Original Jacket Collection Gould's complete recordings for Columbia Masterworks | 1955–1982 | Columbia Masterworks |
| 9 + 1 CD-ROM | Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky
| Columbia Masterworks | |
| 10 | Vladimir Horowitz Columbia Recordings Columbia Records presents Vladimir Horowitz
The Sound of Horowitz
Horowitz in his first recordings of…
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 / Arturo Toscanini, Conductor) Golden Jubilee Concert
(New York Philharmonic / Eugene Ormandy, 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 - Original Jacket Collection (recordings with the New York Philharmonic unless otherwise specified)
| Columbia Masterworks | |
| 10 | Bernstein Conducts Bernstein
| Columbia Masterworks | |
| 10 | George Szell conducts Beethoven (all recordings feature The Cleveland Orchestra with Szell unless otherwise specified)
| Columbia Mastwerworks | |
| 10 | George Szell Plays and Conducts Mozart (all recordings feature the Cleveland Orchestra with Szell unless otherwise specified)
| Columbia Masterworks | |
| 13 | Bruno Walter conducts Famous Mahler and Bruckner Symphonies Mahler:
Bruckner:
Wagner:
| Columbia Masterworks | |
| 10 | Heifetz: The Original Jacket Collection Double Concertos
Beethoven & Mendelssohn
(Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch, Conductor) Brahms & Tchaikovsky
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner, Conductor) Bloch & Vieuxtemps
Sibelius, Prokofiev, & Glazunov
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Walter Hendl, 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)
| RCA Red Seal & Columbia Masterworks | |
| 10 | Itzhak Perlman
| RCA Red Seal | |
| 10 | Respighi
Russian Showpieces
Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky
Bartok
(Isaac Stern, Violinist
Shostakovich
Bach: Orchestral Transcriptions
The Bach Album
The Romantic Philadelphia Strings
| Columbia Masterworks | |
| 10 | Arthur Rubinstein
| 1946–1965 | RCA Red Seal |
| 11 | David Geringas | Eurodisc/Ariola | |
| 15 | Montserrat Caballé | RCA Red Seal | |
| 103 | Jascha Heifetz - Complete Album Collection | 1917–1972 | RCA Red Seal & Columbia Masterworks |
| 142 | Arthur Rubinstein - The Complete Album Collection Contains all of Rubinstein's previously issued RCA recordings, plus
Also includes:
| 1928-1976 | Sony Classical |
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