About cpo
Discover New Worlds with cpo
By now over 30 years and inspired by extraordinarily abundant praise from all sides we continue to look optimistically into the future with what are currently more than eighty new releases per year. With its uniquely broad and diverse repertoire ranging from Heinrich Schütz to Franz Lehár and from Josquin Desprez to Aulis Sallinen, cpo has attracted a worldwide listening audience whose members know that this diversity is not a random mix but instead represents a special selection bearing the producer’s personal signature.
For many years now cpo’s choice editions of classical treasures have earned it great significance in the international music world. This respect for the work of the producer Burkhard Schmilgun reached a new high point 2014 with the Grammy Award for the best opera recording (Marc-Antoine Charpentier, cpo 777 876–2).
In 2009, when he was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the German Record Critics Prize, the decision read as follows: “cpo is virtually the only label that can proudly claim to release one discovery after another from month to month. The man behind this program is Burkhard Schmilgun, who as producer and A&R director has been responsible since 1991 not only for the selection of the label’s artists but also for its repertoire. With his flair for filling gaps off the mainstream, he not only has made a lasting contribution to the label’s catalogue but also has written a chapter of his own in reception history. It is owing to his dedication that many a composer who has been forgotten or dismissed as a minor master has once again met with recognition and owing to his persistence that during the past years trailblazing major editions such as those of the orchestral works of Atterberg, Hindemith, Korngold, Krenek, Pettersson, Ries, Spohr, Weingartner, and Wellesz have been produced”.
This praise offers us encouragement and shows us that we are on the right path – toward the goal of offering the many music lovers around the globe the opportunity to hear with their own ears just how much absolutely enthralling but unknown music there is besides Beethoven, Mozart & Co.
You are cordially invited to join us on this journey of adventure and discovery!
The Team
Burkhard Schmilgun
Director Artists & Repertoire
Michael Rickert
Export Manager
Gerhard Georg Ortmann
Managing Director
Lothar Bruweleit
Design
Caroline Ranke
Product Manager
Contact cpo
cpo – classic production osnabrück
Lübecker Straße 9
49124 Georgsmarienhütte
GERMANY
Phone: +49 5401 851-0
Fax: +49 5401 851-116
E-mail: cpo@jpc.de