MSR Classics

Songs Without Words, Oboe Style

Jed Distler

If you prefer your German lieder without singers, consider this disc. Oboist Andrew Parker takes favorite songs by Beethoven and Schubert along with the entire

Barbara Harbach’s Soler Cycle

Jed Distler

For her “complete” Soler cycle, Barbara Harbach presents Padre Samuel Rubio’s edition of 120 sonatas in numerical order on 14 CDs, in contrast to Naxos’

Gwendolyn Mok’s Brahms: Old Instruments, Fresh Interpretations

Jed Distler

Although I don’t know Gwendolyn Mok personally, we were classmates in the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division in the early 1970s. Our theory teacher asked her

A Fauré Master Returns

Jed Distler

In 2002 I favorably reviewed Sally Pinkas’ sensitive and perceptive Fauré Nocturnes cycle released on the Musica Omnia label. Her MSR disc containing the composer’s