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Composers Recordings, Inc.
Composers Recordings, Inc.
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
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
Morton Feldman
Scott Fields
Irving Fine
Vivian Fine
Ross Lee Finney
Gene Gutchë
Daron Hagen
Roy Harris
Lou Harrison
Robert Helps
Lee Hoiby
Karel Husa
Andrew Imbrie
Charles Ives
Leroy Jenkins
Tom
Johnson
Ben Johnston
Samuel Jones
Victoria Jordanova
Aaron Jay Kernis
Guy Klucevsek
Barbara Kolb
Ernst Krenek
Meyer Kupferman
Ezra Laderman
David Lang
Benjamin Lees
John Anthony Lennon
Fred Lerdahl
Otto Luening
Donald Martino
William Mayer
Barton McLean
Priscilla McLean
Jacques de Menasce
Peter Mennin
Jeffrey Mumford
Alwin
Nikolais
Pauline Oliveros
Hall Overton
Harry Partch
P. Q. Phan
Tobias Picker
Cole Porter
Shulamit
Ran
Bernard Rands
Gardner Read
Wallingford Riegger
Vittorio Rieti
Neil Rolnick
Ned Rorem
Dane Rudhyar
Frederic
Rzewski
Roger Sessions
Judith Shatin
Alice Shields
Hale Smith
Harvey Sollberger
Tan Dun
Virgil Thomson
Francis Thorne
Joan
Tower
Lester Trimble
Richard Aaker Trythall
Chinary Ung
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Robert Ward
Richard Wernick
Robert Willoughby
Stefan Wolpe
Charles Wuorinen
Zhou Long
Evan Ziporyn