Vladimir Horowitz – The Complete Original Jacket Collection
Vladimir Horowitz – The Complete Original Jacket Collection is a 70 CD boxed set featuring many of the recordings of the pianist Vladimir Horowitz. The collection contains recordings from 1928 to his final recording session just four days before his death in 1989. Horowitz's recordings for RCA Red Seal and Columbia Masterworks/Sony Classical are included in the set. Recordings that Horowitz made for RCA's European affiliate, HMV, are not included. Nor are the recordings he made with Deutsche Grammophon from 1985 to 1989. It is one of the largest issues in the Original Jacket Collection series, and supersedes two smaller Original Jacket issues of Horowitz material.
Vladimir Horowitz - The Complete Original Jacket Collection | |
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Box set by Vladimir Horowitz | |
Released | December 1, 2009 |
Recorded | 1928-1989 |
Genre | Classical |
Label | Sony/BMG Masterworks |
Producer | Jon Samuels |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
The Guardian | [1] |
Overview
The box includes 70 CDs, all of which are stored in individual sleeves. Also included is a 200-page booklet which includes track listings, recording dates, an essay by producer Jon Samuels, and a chronology of Horowitz's life.[2] The original LP album format is used along with the original album front and back covers and content sequencing.[3][4] Liner notes are included only in cases where they appeared on the back covers of the original LPs.
Horowitz's first audio recordings were made on 78rpm disks. After the LP came into use in the late 1940s, all of Horowitz's recordings were issued in this format. In addition, until the early 1950s, some of Horowitz's recordings were issued on 78rpm, 45rpm, and LP. Many, but not all, of the pianist's older recordings were transferred to LP.
Those 78rpm recordings which were never issued on LP are contained on a separate disc with newly created cover art. Several of the recordings which post-date the demise of the LP use the original CD covers instead of LP covers. The set also contains two previously unissued recitals: March 5, 1951 at Carnegie Hall; and November 12, 1967 at Whitman Auditorium, Brooklyn College.
The recordings from 1959 onward are in stereophonic sound, and from 1981 onward the recordings were made digitally. Previously issued material uses the best existing transfers, while the new material is newly remastered.
On October 1, 2010 - the 107th anniversary of Horowitz's birth - The Complete Original Jacket Collection won Gramophone's award for best CD reissue.[5]
Contents
Disc No. | Original LP catalog No. | Album details | Recording year(s) | Record label |
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1 | LM-1014 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition | 1947 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
2 | LM-1016 | Prokofiev & Kabalevsky
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1945–1947 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
3 | LM-1027 | Beethoven & Mozart
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1946–1947 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
4 | LM-1109 | Schumann & Chopin:
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1949 / 1950 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
5 | LM-1113 | Chopin & Barber
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1950 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
6 | LCT-1012 | Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
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1941 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
7 | LM-1137 | Chopin
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1945–1947 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
8 | LM-106 | Brahms: Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 108
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1950 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
9 | LM-1025 | Brahms: Piano Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 83
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1940 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
10 | LM-1171 | Horowitz Encores
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1946–1947 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
11 | LM-1178 | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
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1951 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
12 | LM-1235 | Chopin & Liszt
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1947–1950 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
13 | LM-1718 | Beethoven: Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 73 “Emperor”
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1952 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
14 | LM-1707 | Chopin
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1949–1952 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
15 | LM-9021 | Mendelssohn & Liszt
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1946–1951 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
16a & 16b | LM-6014 | 25th Anniversary Recital
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1953 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
17 | LM-1902 | Horowitz plays Clementi
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1954 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
18 | LM-2005 | Horowitz plays Scriabin
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1955 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
19 | LM-2009 | Beethoven: Moonlight and Waldstein Sonatas
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1956 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
20 | LM-1957 | Horowitz in Recital
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1951 / 1956 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
21 | LM-2137 | Horowitz plays Chopin
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1957 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
22 | LM-2319 | Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
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1943 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
23 | LM-2357 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition | 1951 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
24 | LSC-2366 | Beethoven Sonatas
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1959 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
25a & 25b | LD-7021 | The Horowitz Collection
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1942–1953 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
26 | LM-2993 | The Young Horowitz
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1928–1947 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
27 | VIC-1605 | The Great Horowitz plays Favorite Chopin
Ballade in G Minor, Op. 23 / Waltz, Op. 64, No. 2 / Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 29 / Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 / Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4 / Scherzo in B Minor, Op. 20 / Mazurka, Op. 50, No. 3 / Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise in E-flat Major, Op. 22 |
1946–1953 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
28 | VICS-1649 | Great Romantic Piano Favorites
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1946–1957 | RCA Victor Red Seal |
29 | ARL1-1766 | The Horowitz Concerts: 1975-1976
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1976 | RCA Red Seal |
30 | ARL1-2548 | Golden Jubilee Recital (The Horowitz Concerts: 1977-1978)
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1976 | RCA Red Seal |
31 | CRL1-2633 | Golden Jubilee Concert
New York Philharmonic / Eugene Ormandy, Conductor |
1978 | RCA Red Seal |
32 | ARL1-3433 | The Horowitz Concerts: 1978-1979
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1979 | RCA Red Seal |
33 | ARL1-3775 | The Horowitz Concerts: 1979-1980
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1980 | RCA Red Seal |
34 | ARC1-4585 | Horowitz at the Met
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1981 | RCA Red Seal |
35 | ARL1-4322 | Horowitz on Tour: 1979-1980
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1977–1980 | RCA Red Seal |
36 | ARC1-4572 | Horowitz in London
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1982 | RCA Red Seal |
37 | Horowitz (Compilation of recordings never issued on LP)
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1930–1975 | RCA Red Seal | |
38 | KS-6371 | Columbia Records presents Vladimir Horowitz
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1962 | Columbia Masterworks |
39 | MS-6411 | The Sound of Horowitz
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1962 | Columbia Masterworks |
40 | MS-6541 | Horowitz in his first recordings of…
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1963 | Columbia Masterworks |
41 | MS-6658 | Horowitz plays Scarlatti
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1964 | Columbia Masterworks |
42a & 42b | M2S-728 | An Historic Return: Horowitz at Carnegie Hall
A recording of his first concert in twelve years.
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1965 | Columbia Masterworks |
43a & 43b | M2S-757 | Horowitz in Concert
The 1966 Carnegie Hall recitals
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1966 | Columbia Masterworks |
44 | MS-7106 | Horowitz on Television
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1968 | Columbia Masterworks |
45 | MS-7264 | Horowitz - Schumann
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1969 | Columbia Masterworks |
46 | M-30464 | Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff
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1967–1968 | Columbia Masterworks |
47 | M-30643 | Horowitz plays Chopin
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1966 / 1971 | Columbia Masterworks |
48 | M-31620 | Horowitz plays Scriabin
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1966 / 1972 | Columbia Masterworks |
49 | M-32342 | Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata / Schubert: Impromptus
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1972–1973 | Columbia Masterworks |
50 | M-31381 | Beethoven: Appassionata & Waldstein Sonatas
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1972 | Columbia Masterworks |
51 | M-32932 | New Recordings of Chopin
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1968 / 1972-1973 | Columbia Masterworks |
52a & 52b | M2-34256 | Concert of the Century In Celebration of the 85th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall
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1976 | Columbia Masterworks |
53a & 53b | Horowitz (Compilation of posthumously issued Columbia Recordings)
+Limited release on Christmas LP as promotional tie-in with Goodyear Tire in 1969 |
1962–1972 | Columbia Masterworks | |
54 | The Private Collection, Volume 1
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1945–1950 | RCA Victor Red Seal | |
55 | The Private Collection, Volume 2
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1945–1949 | RCA Victor Red Seal | |
56a & 56b | Horowitz ReDiscovered
The Carnegie Hall recital of November 16, 1975
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1975 | RCA Victor Red Seal | |
57a & 57b | Horowitz Live & Unedited
The Carnegie Hall recital of May 9, 1965
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1962 / 1965 | Sony Classical | |
58 | SK-45818 | The Last Recording
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1989 | Sony Classical |
59a & 59b | Previously unreleased recital: March 5, 1951
Carnegie Hall
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1951 | RCA Victor Red Seal | |
60a & 60b | Previously unreleased recital: November 12, 1967
Whitman Auditorium, Brooklyn College
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1967 | Columbia Masterworks |
References
- "Vladimir Horowitz: The Complete Original Jacket Collection | CD review". The Guardian. 2009-12-31. Archived from the original on 2022-04-24.
- Classics Today review by Jed Distler
- "Sony Masterworks to Release Unprecedented Series of Horowitz Recordings..." PR Newswire.
- Amazon.com
- "Gramophone Awards 2010 unveiled". gramophone.co.uk. 2010-09-30. Retrieved 2012-03-13.