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.
Composers with CRI releases (selective list)
- Samuel Adler
- Dominick Argento
- Milton Babbitt
- Leslie Bassett
- Irwin Bazelon
- Irving Berlin
- Chester Biscardi
- Marc Blitzstein
- Henry Brant
- Anthony Braxton
- Martin Bresnick
- Margaret Brouwer
- Earle Brown
- John Cage
- Ronald Caltabiano
- Elliott Carter
- Chen Yi
- John Corigliano
- George Crumb
- Henry Cowell
- Alvin Curran
- Stephen Dembski
- Jacob Druckman
- Judy Dunaway
- Donald Erb
- Morton Feldman
- Irving Fine
- Vivian Fine
- Ross Lee Finney
- Gene Gutchë
- Daron Hagen
- Lou Harrison
- Robert Helps
- Lee Hoiby
- Karel Husa
- Andrew Imbrie
- Charles Ives
- Leroy Jenkins
- Tom Johnson
- Ben Johnston
- Aaron Jay Kernis
- Guy Klucevsek
- Barbara Kolb
- Ernst Krenek
- Meyer Kupferman
- Ezra Laderman
- David Lang
- John Anthony Lennon
- Fred Lerdahl
- Otto Luening
- Donald Martino
- Peter Mennin
- Jeffrey Mumford
- Alwin Nikolais
- Pauline Oliveros
- Harry Partch
- P. Q. Phan
- Tobias Picker
- Cole Porter
- Shulamit Ran
- Bernard Rands
- Gardner Read
- Wallingford Riegger
- Vittorio Rieti
- Neil Rolnick
- Ned Rorem
- Nicholas Roussakis
- Dane Rudhyar
- Frederic Rzewski
- Roger Sessions
- Judith Shatin
- Alice Shields
- Hale Smith
- Harvey Sollberger
- Tan Dun
- Virgil Thomson
- Francis Thorne
- Joan Tower
- Lester Trimble
- Chinary Ung
- Vladimir Ussachevsky
- Richard Wernick
- Stefan Wolpe
- Charles Wuorinen
- Zhou Long
- Evan Ziporyn
See also
- Composers Recordings Inc. Records, the archives of the company, in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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