• The Yes Album — Yes
• My Favorite Things — John Coltrane
• In A Silent Way — Miles Davis
• Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue/An American in Paris — Leonard Bernstein
• Rapper’s Delight — Sugarhill Gang

The legacy of Leonard Bernstein — as a conductor, composer, and music advocate — in the history and trajectory of 20th-century America music can hardly be overstated. In this anniversary year for the composer, Sony BMG Masterworks is releasing The Original Jacket Collection: Bernstein Conducts Bernstein — specially created to celebrate the 90th anniversary of his birth on August 25, 2008 and the 50th anniversary of his appointment as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic.

This 10-disc set includes all of Bernstein’s own definitive recordings of his greatest works as a composer — many recorded with the New York Philharmonic during his historic years with that orchestra.

Here is the track list for the collection:

DISC 1

• Overture to Candide
• Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
• Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront
• Fancy Free

DISC 2

• Jeremiah, Symphony No. 1
• The Age of Anxiety, Symphony No. 2 (after W.H. Auden/1965 version) –
  Philippe Entremeont, piano
• I Hate Music!
• La Bonne Cuisine — Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano

DISC 3

• The Age of Anxiety, Symphony No. 2 (after W.H. Auden/1949 version)
  (mono) — Lukas Foss, piano
• Serenade for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion (after Plato’s
  “Symposium”) (mono) — Isaac Stern, violin

DISC 4

• Kaddish, Symphony No. 3 (To the Beloved Memory of John F. Kennedy) — Felicia Montealegre, speaker and Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano
• Chichester Psalms — John Paul Bogart, alto

DISC 5

• Prelude, Fugue and Riffs — Benny Goodman, clarinet
• On The Town (Three Dance Episodes)
• Serenade for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion (after Plato’s “Symposium”) — Zino Francescatti, violin
• Fancy Free (mono)

DISC 6

• Dybbuk (Complete Ballet)

DISC 7

• Trouble in Tahiti – An Opera in Seven Scenes
• Facsimile – Choreographic Essay for Orchestra

DISC 8

• On The Town

DISCS 9 & 10

• Mass – A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers

The first of a new Carnegie Hall/Sony Masterworks series of CD releases under the moniker of Carnegie Hall Presents, The Original Jacket Collection: Bernstein Conducts Bernstein heralds the Bernstein Festival  that opens Carnegie Hall’s 2008-09 season on September 24th. Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic’s three-month program of events, entitled Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds, pays tribute to each aspect of Bernstein’s legacy with 50 concerts and education events. 2008 also marks the 65th anniversary of Bernstein’s historic Carnegie Hall debut. Go here for more information on the festival.

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