Arco e Tasto comprises violinist Jinwoo Lee, concertmaster of Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the highly sought-after collaborative pianist Eunice Kim. On Once Heard, Long Forgotten, the duo shines a long-overdue spotlight on Emilie Mayer and Luise Adolpha Le Beau, two extraordinary women who contributed substantially to German Romantic repertoire. The program features Le Beau’s Violin Sonata, Op. 10, Romance, Op. …

Emilie Mayer (1812-83) had eight symphonies to her name but, after finding that her gender hampered her orchestral music gaining public performances, she turned to chamber music. The string quartet offered, perhaps, a place for her to forget the restrictions of 19th-century society. Mayer proves herself a masterful exponent of classical forms with subtle plays of musical lines and delicate …

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 …