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, His Master's Voice, 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.

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.Classics Today review by Jed Distler The original LP album format is used along with the original album front and back covers and content sequencing.Amazon.com 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 78 rpm, 45 rpm, and LP. Many, but not all, of the pianist's older recordings were transferred to LP.

Those 78 rpm recordings which were never issued on LP are contained on a separate disc with newly created cover art. Several of the recordings which postdate 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.

Contents Disc No.Original LP catalog No.Album details Recording year(s)Record label 1 LM-1014Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition 1947RCA Victor Red Seal 2LM-1016Prokofiev & Kabalevsky Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7, Op. 83 Kabalevsky: Sonata No. 31945–1947RCA Victor Red Seal3LM-1027Beethoven & Mozart Beethoven: Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight" Mozart: Sonata in F Major, K. 3321946–1947RCA Victor Red Seal4LM-1109Schumann & Chopin: Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Chopin: Seven Mazurkas1949 / 1950RCA Victor Red Seal5LM-1113Chopin & Barber Chopin: Sonata in B-flat Minor, Op. 35 Barber: Sonata, Op. 261950RCA Victor Red Seal6LCT-1012Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 NBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini, Conductor1941RCA Victor Red Seal7LM-1137Chopin Chopin: Andante Spianato & Grand Polonaise in E-flat Major, Op. 22 / Waltzes, Op. 34, No. 2 & Op. 64, No. 2/ Mazurka in F Minor, Op. 7, No. 3 / Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53 /1945–1947RCA Victor Red Seal8LM-106 Brahms: Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 108 Nathan Milstein, Violinist1950RCA Victor Red Seal9LM-1025Brahms: Piano Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 83 NBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini, Conductor1940RCA Victor Red Seal10LM-1171Horowitz Encores Horowitz: Variations on a Theme from Bizet’s Carmen Mussorgsky: By the Water (arr. Horowitz) Bach – Busoni: Chorale Prelude BWV599 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' Mozart: Rondo alla turca from Sonata, K. 331 Schumann: Traumerai Mendelssohn: Songs without Words: “Elegie”, Op. 85, No. 4; “Spring Song”, Op. 62, No. 6 Debussy: Serenade for the Doll Prokofiev: Toccata, Op. 111946–1947RCA Victor Red Seal11LM-1178Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner, Conductor1951RCA Victor Red Seal12LM-1235Chopin & Liszt Chopin: Sonata in B-flat Minor, Op. 35 / Ballade in G Minor, Op. 23 / Nocturne, Op. 15, No. 2 Liszt: Au bord d’une source / Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat Major1947–1950RCA Victor Red Seal13LM-1718Beethoven: Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 73 “Emperor” RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner, Conductor1952RCA Victor Red Seal14LM-1707Chopin Ballade in A-flat Major, Op. 47 / Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52 / Etude in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3 / Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 29 / Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 / Scherzo in B Minor, Op. 201949–1952RCA Victor Red Seal15LM-9021Mendelssohn & Liszt Mendelssohn: Variations serieuses, Op. 54 / Wedding March & Variations (arr. Liszt – Horowitz) Liszt: Valse Oubliee No. 1 / Sonetto del Petrarcha No. 104 / Racokzy March1946–1951RCA Victor Red Seal16a & 16bLM-601425th Anniversary Recital Schubert: Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 Chopin: Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1 / Scherzo in B Minor, Op. 20 / Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2 Scriabin: Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 “Black Mass” / Etude in B-flat Minor, Op. 8, No. 11 / Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 42, No. 5 Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Debussy: Serenade for the Doll Prokofiev: Precipitato from Sonata No. 7, Op. 831953RCA Victor Red Seal17LM-1902Horowitz plays Clementi Sonata in G Minor, Op. 34, No. 2 / Sonata in F Minor, Op. 14, No. 3 / Sonata in F-sharp Minor, Op. 26, No. 21954RCA Victor Red Seal18LM-2005Horowitz plays Scriabin Sonata in F-sharp Minor, Op. 23 16 Preludes1955RCA Victor Red Seal19LM-2009Beethoven: Moonlight and Waldstein Sonatas Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight" / Sonata in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"1956RCA Victor Red Seal20LM-1957Horowitz in Recital Schumann: Variations on a theme by Clara Wieck Scarlatti: Sonata in E Major, K. 380 Chopin: Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op. 24, No. 4 / Polonaise Fantasie, OP. 61 Haydn: Sonata No. 62 in E-flat Major Moszkowski: Etincelles, Op. 36, No. 6 Scriabin: Preludes Op. 11, No. 5 and Op. 22, No. 1 Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever (arr. Horowitz)1951 / 1956RCA Victor Red Seal21LM-2137Horowitz plays Chopin Scherzos: B-flat Minor, Op. 31; C-sharp Minor, Op. 39 Nocturnes: B Major, Op. 9, No. 3; F Major, Op. 15, No. 1; C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 1; E-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 Barcarolle, Op. 601957RCA Victor Red Seal22LM-2319Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 NBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini, Conductor1943RCA Victor Red Seal23LM-2357Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition 1951RCA Victor Red Seal24LSC-2366Beethoven Sonatas Sonata in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3 / Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata”1959RCA Victor Red Seal25a & 25bLD-7021The Horowitz Collection Czerny: Variation on a Theme by Rode La Ricordanza Mozart: Sonata in F Major, K. 332 Clementi: Rondo from Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 24, No. 2 Schumann: Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck / Träumerei Mendelssohn: Songs without Words: Elegie, Op. 85, No. 4; Spring Song, Op. 62, No. 6; Shepherd’s Complaint, Op. 67, No. 5 Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise in E-flat Major, Op. 22 Scriabin: Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 “Black Mass” Barber: Sonata, Op. 26 Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7, Op. 83 Moszkowski: Etude in A-flat Major, Op. 72, No. 11 Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre (arr. Liszt – Horowitz)1942–1953RCA Victor Red Seal26LM-2993The Young Horowitz Kabalevsky: Sonata No. 3 Tchaikovsky: Dumka, Op. 59 Scarlatti – Tausig: Capriccio Chopin: Mazurka, Op. 30, No. 4 / Waltz, Op. 64, No. 2 Liszt: Paganini Etude in E-flat Major Debussy: Serenade for the Doll Horowitz: Dance Excentrique Dohnanyi: Concert Etude (Capriccio), Op. 28, No. 61928–1947RCA Victor Red Seal27VIC-1605The 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 1946–1953RCA Victor Red Seal28VICS-1649Great Romantic Piano Favorites Schubert: Impromptu, D. 899, No. 3 (arr. Von Bulow) Liszt: Valse oubliee Mendelssohn: Songs without Words: Elegie, Op. 85, No. 4; Spring Song, Op. 62, No. 6; Shepherd’s complaint, Op. 67, No. 5 Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 15, No. 2 / Mazurka in F Minor, Op. 7, No. 3 Brahms: Intermezzo, Op. 117, No. 2 / Waltz in A-flat, Op. 39, No. 15 Liszt: Funérailles1946–1957RCA Victor Red Seal29ARL1-1766The Horowitz Concerts: 1975-1976 Schumann: Sonata in F Minor, Op. 14 (Concerto without Orchestra) Scriabin: Sonata No. 5, Op. 531976RCA Red Seal30ARL1-2548Golden Jubilee Recital (The Horowitz Concerts: 1977-1978) Liszt: Sonata in B Minor Faure: Impromptu in F sharp Minor, Op. 102 / Nocturne in B Minor, Op. 1191976RCA Red Seal31CRL1-2633Golden Jubilee Concert Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto in D Minor, Op. 30 New York Philharmonic / Eugene Ormandy, Conductor1978RCA Red Seal32ARL1-3433The Horowitz Concerts: 1978-1979 Schumann: Humoreske, Op. 20 Rachmaninoff: Barcarolle, Op. 10, No. 3 / Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 5 Liszt: Consolation in D-flat Major / Mephisto Waltz No. 11979RCA Red Seal33ARL1-3775The Horowitz Concerts: 1979-1980 Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 111 / Nachtstücke, Op. 23, No. 3 & 4 Mendelssohn: Scherzo a capriccio Rachmaninoff: Sonata in B-flat Minor, Op. 361980RCA Red Seal34ARC1-4585Horowitz at the Met Scarlatti: Six Sonatas Chopin: Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52 / Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1 Liszt: Ballade in B Minor, S. 171 Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 51981RCA Red Seal35ARL1-4322Horowitz on Tour: 1979-1980 Clementi: Sonata quasi Concerto in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 50 / Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7 / Etude in G-flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5 “Black Keys” Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5 / Moment Musicale in E-flat Minor, Op. 16, No. 2 / Polka de WR1977–1980RCA Red Seal36ARC1-4572Horowitz in London Traditional: God Save the Queen Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasie, Op. 61 / Ballade in G Minor, Op. 23 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Scriabin: Etude in D-sharp Minor, Op. 8, No. 121982RCA Red Seal37Horowitz (Compilation of recordings never issued on LP) Scarlatti: Six Sonatas Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 72, No. 1 / Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4 / Liszt: Valse oubliee Moszkowski: Etude in F Major, Op. 72, No. 6 Mendelssohn: Song without Words, “May Breezes”, Op. 62, No. 1 Horowitz: Variations on a Theme from Bizet’s Carmen (1928 & 1957 recordings) Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever1930–1975RCA Red Seal38KS-6371 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)1962Columbia Masterworks39MS-6411 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. 121962Columbia Masterworks40MS-6541 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. 201963Columbia Masterworks41MS-6658 Horowitz plays Scarlatti