Search - Milton Babbitt, Kent Kennan, Mel Powell, George Perle, et al. Ingolf Dahl, Robert Helps :: New Music For the Piano

CRI is proud to present its new series, CRI Archives, which will feature the coupling of digitally-remastered works from its historic archive with archival presentations of portions of the original packaging. The first release in the series, New Music for the Piano with pianist, Robert Helps, features 21 works which were originally released by RCA Red Seal label in 1966. The LP was subsequently re-released by CRI in 1971. Both LP releases were under the auspices of The Abby Whiteside Foundation which compiled the collection of new piano works. The new CD package features not only the mastery of Helps as performer but also new program notes commissioned from Alan Rich, the noted music critic of L.A. Weekly. This disc remains the only source for most of these recordings which represent a cross-section of the movements and leaders in American composing just past the mid-20th-century mark. Includes works by Dahl, Gideon, Babbitt, Powell, Gould, Hovhaness, and Perle, among many others.