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Beethoven's gifted pupil Ferdinand Ries was never entirely forgotten, but it is only in recent years that cpo and Hermann Max dedicated themselves with great success to the rediscovery of this... more

Almost 20 years ago CPO recorded Krenek's symphonies and released them in rapid succession. Following the recent discovery of the score of Symphony No. 4 in the U.S., CPO also released this work,... more

Nikolai Tcherepnin (not to be confused with his son Alexander!) represents a generation of composers who not only combined two diametrically opposed epochs - the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -... more

Charpentier & BEMF Again at their Best. In 2015 our most recent Charpentier recording to date, La Descente d'Orphee aux Enfers with young soloists and the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber... more

After 1933 nobody had the opportunity to hear this opera. Then the Osnabrück Music Theater rediscovered Das Lied der Nacht by Hans Gál and performed it in 2017. This late-romantic opera to a text by... more

The present cpo recording of George Enescu's Fourth Symphony in E minor is, like the Symphony No. 5 in D (cpo 777 823-2) another world-premiere release from Peter Ruzicka and the NDR Philharmonie,... more

It Was in Frankfurt Am Main on 16 September 1810 That Carl Maria Von Weber's Opera Silvana Was First Performed. A Box-Office Hit, Silvana Is Practically Forgotten Today, Even Though It Enjoyed a Very... more

E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is rightly regarded as one of the great writers of German romanticism but not as one of the epoch's great composers. Nevertheless, he repeatedly attempted to earn his... more

Widor epitomizes French organ music of the 19th century. He quickly made a name for himself as a composer, and his 10 symphonies for solo organ are regarded today as the best of the virtuosic French... more