Exploration of the language, attitude, dissonance, and drama of the piano music of our century as in the works of Debussy, Bart�k, 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.