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CRI Records
Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) was an American record label dedicated to the recording of contemporary classical music by American composers. It was founded in 1954 by Otto Luening, Douglas Moore, and Oliver Daniel, and based in New York City. The label released over 600 recordings on LP, cassette, and CD. It went out of business in 2003 due to financial pressures, and the rights to CRI's recordings were transferred to New World Records in 2006. Selected composers * Samuel Adler *Dominick Argento *Aaron Avshalomov *Jacob Avshalomov *Milton Babbitt *Samuel Barber * Jennifer Margaret Barker''Nyvaigs'', CRI862, 2000 *Leslie Bassett *Irwin Bazelon *William Bergsma *Irving Berlin *Chester Biscardi *Marc Blitzstein *Henry Brant *Anthony Braxton *Martin Bresnick *Margaret Brouwer *Earle Brown *John Cage *Ronald Caltabiano *Elliott Carter *Chou Wen-chung *Chen Yi *John Corigliano *George Crumb *Henry Cowell *Alvin Curran * David Diamond *Jacob Druckman * Judy Dunaway *Donald Erb *Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Classical Music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial music, electronic music, experimental music, and minimalist music. Newer forms of music include spectral music, and post-minimalism. History Background At the beginning of the twentieth century, composers of classical music were experimenting with an increasingly dissonant pitch language, which sometimes yielded atonal pieces. Following World War I, as a backlash against what they saw as the increasingly exaggerated gestures and formlessness of late Romanticism, certain composers adopted a neoclassic style, which sought to recapture the balanced forms and clearly perceptible thematic processes of earlier styles (see also New Objectivity and Social Realism). After World War II, modernist composers sought to achieve greater levels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |