Classic Produktion Osnabrück (often referred to as cpo, in lowercase) is a record label

Record label

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 founded in 1986

1986 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1986.-January-June:*January 23 – The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame takes place...

 by Georg Ortmann and several others. Its declared mission is to fill niches in the recorded classical repertory, with an emphasis on romantic, late romantic and 20th-century music. The label also aims to release complete cycles of recordings, such as complete sets of symphonies, concertos, chamber music, and so forth. It is the house label of online retailer jpc

JPC (retailer)

jpc is a German music-retailer based in Georgsmarienhütte near Osnabrück. The initials stand for Jazz-Pop-Classic.The business was started in 1970 by two university students selling LPs from a wallpapering table to finance their studies. Then in 1973 came a physical shop, and in 1976 mail order...

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Recordings

Recordings issued by cpo include (see second external link; some of these are no longer available)

• The complete orchestral works by Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
  
   and Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austro-Hungarian film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual reawakening of interest...
  
  
• The orchestral works of Hans Pfitzner
  Hans Pfitzner
  Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...
  
   (and a substantial amount of his chamber works as well)
• The symphonies and string quartets of Benjamin Frankel
  Benjamin Frankel
  Benjamin Frankel was a British composer. Frankel's most famous pieces include a cycle of five string quartets and eight symphonies as well as a number of concertos for violin and viola; his single best-known piece is probably the First Sonata for Solo Violin, which, like his concertos, resulted...
  
  
• The symphonies, concertos and string quartets of Ahmed Adnan Saygun
• The symphonies and overtures of Ferdinand Ries
  Ferdinand Ries
  Ferdinand Ries was a German composer.- Life :Born into a musical family of Bonn, Ries was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler...
  
  
• The symphonies and overtures of Friedrich Ernst Fesca
• The symphonies of Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...
  
  
• The symphonies of Allan Pettersson
  Allan Pettersson
  Gustav Allan Pettersson was a Swedish composer. Today he is considered one of the most important Swedish composers of the 20th century...
  
  
• The symphonies of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
  Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
  Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger was a Swedish composer and music critic...
  
  
• The symphonies of Ture Rangström
  Ture Rangström
  Anders Johan Ture Rangström belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernism to their compositions. In addition to composing Rangström was also a musical critic and conductor.Rangström was born in Stockholm, where initially he...
  
  
• The symphonies of George Onslow
  George Onslow
  André George Louis Onslow was an Anglo-French composer. He was widely recognised as a gifted composer during his lifetime but is virtually forgotten today.-Life:...
  
  
• The complete wind quintets of Anton Reicha
  Anton Reicha
  Anton Reicha was a Czech-born, later naturalized French composer. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, Reicha is now best remembered for his substantial early contribution to the wind quintet literature and his role as a teacher – his pupils included Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz...
  
  
• The violin concertos and symphonies of Louis Spohr
  Louis Spohr
  Louis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...
  
  
• The symphonies of Josef Tal

Some of these works (for example, Spohr's symphonies and the 8th of his concertos) have been recorded in the past but quite a few of them had not.