Huge Heifetz Original Jacket Collection is coming!

103 cds + DVD!! a-la-Miles Davis box.

http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/product/detail/3922185


For the ones who missed the 60+ Heifetz edition of the 90s, this is our chance!

Rubinstein shall follow, I estimate.

 

That looks nice. I hope it's as cheap as the Davis set.

 

20000yen
175 euro
245 us dollars

 

Wow ! That's quite a deal. To put things in perspective, the new Japanese pressing of the John Lennon Signature box goes for ¥19,800 (tax included) !

All the best,

Robert

 

I hope Sony does an Original Jacket Toscanini collection, or a straight re-release of the complete 1990's RCA Toscanini Collection. I never did get them all.

That Heifetz set sure looks nice, I just may have to save a few bucks and get it.

 

It does say it's an import from Europe, and as imports are more expensive hopefully it will be even cheaper in the EU.

 

At that price, a no-brainer.

 

Wow! Even though I have the earlier edition in two large plastic cases, I want this one. I wonder how much crossover there is between the two sets?

 

Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!

That's a good question. The Heifetz Collection (housed in the two large plastic cases with the violin design) was 65 CDs total. I believe that collection only covered his RCA Victor recordings, but not his Columbia Records recordings. Now that Sony and BMG are one company, RCA Records and Columbia Records are under the same parent label.

This collection is 103 CDs. However, because the "jackets" collections try to replicate the original LPs, the play times on the CDs are short. For example, they'll keep a 2 LP set as two CDs, even if they could easily be combined onto one CD.

The complete Heifetz Collection lists for thousands of dollars on eBay (when I see it come up), and much of the material has been out of print for years. Back in the 1990s, I bought a number of the individual titles in the Heifetz Collection, so skipped buying the entire set. Unfortunately, the titles that I did not pick up wound up becoming ridiculously expensive -- presumably because less people bought those, and they became rare as they went out of print. So it is great to see so much Heifetz material come out for under $2.50 per disc.

Should also note that EMI has an "Icons" box set on Heifetz. However, I have never been able to figure out where that material comes from (I do not own the "Icons" box set).

 

Good info, thanks. I will have to fight off the urge to get this, too, I guess.
There's bound to be considerable material I don't have as the earlier collection is all RCA, as you point out.

 

Love the whole Original Jackets concept... while I realize the quality is nothing approaching the Japanese mini-LP/promo box concept, the fair price Sony/BMG is getting for these makes for a good trade-off IMHO.

There appears to be a Herbie Hancock one brewing on the jazz side, I hope they keep going on both the jazz and classical side (sure wish I had not missed the big Glenn Gould box).

 

This month will go down in history as being the month of the box set.

 

who cares about hugh heffner's jackets?

hmm... is this about his famous dinner jacket collection?

 

The Icons box is 1930's stuff he recorded at mainly Abbey Road studios. I think there may also be a few things from then 1940's as well, but it's mainly 30's.

Back to the complete jacket collection - has anyone seen a UK or EU listing yet for this?

 

Mastering by:
めて発表された音源

or is it:
大いに注目されます ?

 

This makes sense. However, I suspect it will not take place.

 

Why?

The link in the first post even has a picture of it.

 

I am a half-empty kind of person. Never mind...

 

Amazon U.S. listing. Release Date: December 21, 2010

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00467EKKO/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER

 

From another forum:

 

Looks great. May pick it up if I start working again.

 

On offer for €200 in Europe at jpc.de

Jascha Heifetz - The Complete Album Collection (german)

In english
Jascha Heifetz - The Complete Album Collection (english)


-
aleg

 

Amazon listing now shows a release date of February 8, 2011

 

I am SO tempted...!

 

Me too!

Resisting so far, but it's in my want list at amazon.