Discover New Worlds with cpo

We’ve just celebrated our twenty-fifth anniversary and after welcoming extraordinarily high praise from all sides we continue to look optimistically into the future with our now more than eighty new releases per year. cpo has won a worldwide listening audience with its uniquely broad and diverse repertoire ranging from Heinrich Schütz to Franz Lehár and from Josquin Desprez to Wolfgang Rihm. Our listeners know that this diversity is not random but instead represents a special selection bearing the producer’s personal signature.

In the autumn of 2009 Burkhard Schmilgun received the Certificate of Honor of the Prize of the German Record Critics, whose jury members stated: »Among classical labels cpo is unrivaled when it comes to the proud claim of releasing 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 and above all for its repertoire. With his intuitive talent for locating 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 engagement that so many a composer who has been forgotten or dismissed as a minor master has once again met with recognition and thanks to his persistence that during the past years trailblazing major editions such as those of the orchestral works of Erdmann, Hindemith, Korngold, Krenek, Pettersson, Toch, 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. while demonstrating that the verdict of music history has not always been just or justified. You are warmly 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 produktion osnabrück
Lübecker Straße 9
49124 Georgsmarienhütte
GERMANY

Phone: +49 5401 851-0
Fax: +49 5401 851-116
E-mail: cpo@jpc.de