The internationally acclaimed German label CPO has been enthusiastically filling the niches that larger companies in the industry have sometimes overlooked. The latest release is the label’s sixth album dedicated to the music of Emilie Mayer, and their third in a series presenting the composer’s symphonies with the NDR Radio Philharmonic. Orchestrator Andreas N. Tarkmann reconstructed the lost score of the Symphony No. 4 in B minor from the piano reduction for this recording. The other featured work is the Symphony No. 6 in E major, written two years later.

The album’s liner notes comment “[CPO’s] ultimate aim is to do ‘appropriate justice’ to this music, leading it step by step to its justified inclusion in music history textbooks devoted to symphonic works, finally achieving its place alongside the works of other great symphonic masters.”