CPO

Founded in 1986, Classic Produktion Osnabrück, or CPO, aims to fill niches in the recorded classical repertory, with an emphasis on romantic, late romantic, and 20th-century music.

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  • VI Ouvertures à 4 ou 6 (1736)
    VI Ouvertures à 4 ou 6 (1736)

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    Telemann remains a paradox: The deeper one delves into his oeuvre, the more boundless his legacy seems - like entering a mysterious treasure trove where the eyes gradually adjust to the wealth amassed within, yet...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 15, 2025

  • Italian Cantatas & Arias
    Italian Cantatas & Arias

    $18.99

    When the 18-year-old Georg Friedrich Handel arrived in Hamburg to immerse himself in the dazzling world of opera, he sat in the violin section as though he could not count to five, according to his...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2025

  • Orchestral Works
    Orchestral Works

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    Today, his work "has no significant presence in recordings or concert life," states the boundless internet for those seeking information on the life and work of composer, pianist, and priest Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750-1817)....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2025

  • Bagatelles & Variations
    Bagatelles & Variations

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    Around the same time that Michael Korstick caused a sensation with the first and, to date, only recording of all Beethoven piano concertos (555 447-2), these recordings were also made. They shed light on the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2025

  • Idylle sur la Paix, LWV 68; La Fete de Rueil, H. 485
    Idylle sur la Paix, LWV 68; La Fete de Rueil, H. 485

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    On August 15, 1684, the Sun King's war against Emperor Leopold I and King Charles II of Spain reached a temporary end. Louis XIV had secured the advantage, and so several influential gentlemen sought to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2025

  • Symphony, Op. 19; Suite
    Symphony, Op. 19; Suite

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    Julius Otto Grimm was born in the Estonian port city of Parnu, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, and, after several stops, arrived in Munster, where he played such an outstanding role until his death in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2025

  • Piano Quartet, Op. 1; Violin Sonatas, Opp. 7 & 15
    Piano Quartet, Op. 1; Violin Sonatas, Opp. 7 & 15

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    Born just months before his father's early death, Franz Xaver Mozart represented the great hope of his mother, Constanze, who envisioned the continuation of the musical lineage in the younger of her two surviving sons....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2025

  • Works for Organ, Harmonium & Piano
    Works for Organ, Harmonium & Piano

    $79.99

    Deutscher Schallplattenpreis - The jury's statement: "Comprehensive and highly "Comprehensive and interpretatively high-ranking insight into the central creative field of an unjustly forgotten composer of the Schonberg generation, who stood in the Reger tradition and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2025

  • Symphonies 1 & 2
    Symphonies 1 & 2

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    Elsa Barraine (1910-1999) must have been a musical prodigy. At 18, she placed second in the competition for the coveted Prix de Rome; by 19, she had it in the bag. While studying under Paul...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2025

  • Rex Salomon
    Rex Salomon

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    Tommaso Traetta was 39 years old when he was appointed choirmaster of the Venetian Ospedaletto dei Derelitti in 1766, which was one of those "homes" for orphan girls in which music played a central role....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 06, 2025

  • Violin Concerto; Serenade; Autumn Gardens
    Violin Concerto; Serenade; Autumn Gardens

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    Over the course of his life, Einojuhani Rautavaara's work has developed like a microcosm of the history of music since 1950. His break with the bonds of serialism and a commitment to his own unique...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 06, 2025

  • Symphony in E minor, Op. 67; Symphony in F minor
    Symphony in E minor, Op. 67; Symphony in F minor

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    Ferdinand Hiller was the son of a wealthy industrialist from Frankfurt. He studied with Johann Nepomuk Hummel in Weimar from the age of ten, lived for several years in Paris and finally settled in Cologne...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 06, 2025

  • Deutsche Evangelische Messe;  Deutsches Kirchenamt
    Deutsche Evangelische Messe; Deutsches Kirchenamt

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    By modern standards, Thomas Muntzer might be described as a liberation theologian. A few years before his violent death, the ordained priest married a former nun (like Martin Luther), devoted himself to helping the needy,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 06, 2025

  • Symphony No. 4 in B minor, reconstructed orchestration
    Symphony No. 4 in B minor, reconstructed orchestration

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    Even today, there are those who want to hear the same "female Beethoven" in Emilie Mayer that contemporaries of the Prussian composer believed to recognise in her works. The label of course does not explain...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 06, 2025

  • Complete Piano Trios
    Complete Piano Trios

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    Emanuel Moor (1863-1931) was the son of an opera singer and cantor from Kecskemet, Hungary. He studied in Budapest with Robert Volkmann and then in Vienna with Anton Bruckner and the pianist Anton Door. And...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 06, 2025