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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  • 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

    $18.99

    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

  • Chamber Music
    Chamber Music

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    This chamber music recording features two important anniversaries - the 150th anniversary of the death of French composer Louise Farrenc, who died on 15 September 1875 after a successful career in Paris and the 75th...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 06, 2025

  • Symphony No. 4
    Symphony No. 4

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    It's a shame Schubert didn't learn as much as I did; with his extraordinary talent, he could have become a true master. This strikingly self-assured remark has been attributed to Franz Lachner, a Swabian composer...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 16, 2025

  • Brockes-Passion
    Brockes-Passion

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    Jesus, tortured and dying for the sins of the world: This is how the Hamburg librettist and senator Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747) titled his dramatic adaptation of the Passion narrative-a text so popular that it...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 16, 2025

  • Johannes-Passion
    Johannes-Passion

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    Christoph Demantius has largely been forgotten, likely because so little is known about his life. Born in late 1567 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, he studied in Wittenberg and served as cantor in Zittau before taking the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 16, 2025

  • Ruth
    Ruth

    $36.99

    The German composer Georg Schumann (1866-1952) is already well represented in the cpo catalog, with two symphonies, several orchestral works, two chamber music productions, a lied recital, and a piano recital - a collection that...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 16, 2025