Exploration of the language, attitude, dissonance, and drama of the piano music of our century as in the works of Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky, Piston, Ives, Ravel, Hindemith, and 35 other contemporary composers. Contents: ANTHEIL: Dog-Cat Polka - Winter Lullaby - BARTOK: Bagatelle, Op. 6, No. 2 - Bagatelle, Op. 6, No. 6 - Bear Dance - Dance from For Children, Book II - Dirge from For Children, Book II - Evening in the Country from Ten Easy Pieces - Lament from For Children, Book I - Play Tune from For Children, Book I - Sonatina (Bagpipe-Dance-Finale) - CASELLA: Carillon from Eleven Children's Pieces - Siciliana from Eleven Children's Pieces - COWELL: Sway Dance - CRESTON: Prelude, Op. 38, No. 2 - DEBUSSY: Clair de Lune - First Arabesque - Prelude from Pour le Piano - Sarabande from Pour le Piano - EINEM: Pian Piece No. 4 from Four Piano Pieces - GRANADOS: The Maiden and the Nightingale from Goyescas - GRETCHANINOFF: Little Prelude, Op. 109, No. 1 - On the Harmonica, Op. 123, No. 12 - HAUER: Resonances, Op. 16, Nos. 1, 4, 5 - HINDEMITH: Dance Piece from Op. 27, Part II - IVES: The Alcotts, from Piano Sonata No. 2 - JELINEK: Two-Voice Invention - KABALEVSKY: Prelude, Op. 38, No. 8 - Rondo-Toccata, Op. 60, No. 4 - Seven Variations On A Ukranian Folk Song, Op. 51, No. 4 - Sonatina, Op. 13, No. 1 - KADOSA: Two Pieces, Op. 61, Nos. 4 & 3 - KHATCHATURIAN: Waltz from Adventures of Ivan - KODALY: Moderato, Op. 3, No. 6 - Valsette - KRENEK: Piano Piece, Op. 39, No. 5 - LUTOSLAWSKI: Two Pieces from Bucolics, Nos. 2 & 3 - MARTIN: Prelude No. 2 - MILHAUD: Rag-Caprice - PALMGREN: May Night - PISTON: Passacaglia - PROKOFIEV: Legende, Op. 12, No. 6 - March, Op. 65, No. 10 - Moonlit Meadows, Op. 65, No. 12 - Vision Fugitive, Op. 22, No. 4 - Vision Fugitive, Op. 22, No. 10 - Vision Fugitive, Op. 22, No. 16 - RANKI: African Incantation - Laotian Flute - Polynesian Lullaby - RAVEL: Sonatine - REBIKOFF: Mouvement Plastique - Shepherd Playing His Pipe, Op. 31, No. 8 - RIETI: Elegia - Invenzione - SATIE: Gnossienne No. 1 - Gymnopedie No. 1 - SCHUMAN: Piano Moods: 1. Pensive 2. Dynamic - SCHONBERG: Two Short Piano Pieces, Op. 19, Nos. 2 & 4 - SCOTT: Lotus Land, Op. 47, No. 1 - SHOSTAKOVICH: A Happy Fairy Tale - Prelude, Op. 34, No. 16 - Three Fantastic Dances - SCRIABIN: Poem, Op. 31, No. 2 - Prelude, Op. 11, No. 9 - Prelude, Op. 13, No. 3 - Prelude, Op. 16, No. 4 - STARER: Bright Orange - Shades of Blue - STRAVINSKY: Etude, Op. 7, No. 3 - THE FIVE FINGERS: Allegro - Lento - Vivo - SWANSON: Andante Cantabile from Piano Sonata - TCHEREPNIN: Bagatelle, Op. 5, No. 1 - TOCH: The Prankster, Op. 49, No. 9 - TURINA: Clowns - VILLA-LOBOS: O Polichinelo from Prole de Bebe, No. 1 - WEBERN: Piano Piece, Op. Posth.