For
Immediate
Release
10/19/11
Digitization
of Composers Recordings, Inc. LP Catalog Now Complete
Unissued
CRI LPs Now Available as On-demand CD-Rs
New
World Records is pleased to announce the completion of our project to re-issue
the CRI LP catalog in digital form. Approximately 350 titles, representing that
part of the catalog of Composers Recordings, Inc. which had not previously been
re-issued, are now available as on-demand CD-Rs and will soon be available as
downloads.
This
catalog, comprising works by many of the most important American composers of
the twentieth century—among them Henry Cowell, Otto Luening, Ned Rorem and
George Crumb—has been unavailable since the end of the LP era. Hard-to-find
gems by the likes of George Antheil, Easley Blackwood, Julian Carrillo, John
Eaton, Robert Erickson, Ben Johnston, Hall Overton, Quincy Porter, and Robert
Ward can once again be heard. New World is
proud to have restored these treasures of our musical heritage to general
availability.
All
titles have been carefully transferred from the
original tapes but have not
been remastered—i.e. they are “flat”
transfers.
CRI
(Composers Recordings, Inc.), a non-profit label devoted to works by American
composers, was founded in 1954 by composers Otto Luening and Douglas Moore, and
Oliver Daniel of BMI. Dedicated to the promotion of new music by American
composers, CRI issued more than 800 recordings over its 49-year history.
Ownership of the CRI catalog was assumed by New World Records in 2006.
For
further details and to place orders, please go to the New World Records website
For
further information, please contact Paul Herzman,
New World Records, 20 Jay
Street, Suite 1001, Brooklyn, NY
11201. Tel.
646-442-7939; Fax (646) 224-9638;
