A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Missy Mazzoli – Dark with Excessive Bright – Peter Herresthal, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/James Gaffigan, Arctic Philharmonic/Tim Weiss (BIS)

Kate Carr – cosmic sunday #3 (self-released; 2023)

Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation.Live (Music for Nations/Sony; 2023)

Steve Roach/Michael Stearns – Beyond Earth & Sky (Projekt; 2021)

Steve Roach/Kevin Braheny – Western Spaces (Fortuna; 1987)

Steve Roach/Kevin Braheny/Michael Stearns – Desert Solitaire (Fortuna; 1989)

Steve Roach/Michael Stearns/Ron Sunsinger – Kiva (Hearts of Space; 1995)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1868 version) – Bruckner Orchester Linz/Markus Poschner (Capriccio; 2023)

Experiential Orchestra/James Blachly with Curtis Stewart – American Counterpoints (Bright Shiny Things; due March 1, 2024)

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – Louisiana Blues Strut; Julia Perry – Prelude for Strings (arr. Roger Zahab); Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – Sinfonietta No. 1; Julia Perry – Symphony in One Movement for Violas and String Basses; Ye, Who Seek the Truth (arr. Jannina Norpoth); Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Curtis Stewart – We Who Seek

Joe Hisaishi – A Symphonic Celebration – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Joe Hisaishi (Deutsche Grammophon; 2023)

Grateful Dead – Winter Solstice – Live (Nugs.net; 2023)

Maurice Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 – Greenwich Village Orchestra/Barbara Yahr (YouTube; 2017)

Alexandra Gardner – Just Say Yes – Michael Blancaflor, Chelsea Symphony Orchestra/Nell Flanders (YouTube; 2021)

Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture; Mary D. Watkins – Five Movements in Color ("II. Soul of Remembrance"); Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade – Riverside Orchestra/Reuben Blundell (YouTube; 2023)

Gabriel Faure – Masques et Bergamasques; Paul McCartney – Spiral; Samuel Barber – Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 31 in D ("Paris") – Jennifer Zetlan, Riverside Orchestra/Reuben Blundell (YouTube; 2023)

David Sylvian - Do You Know Me Now? (UMR; 2023)

King Crimson – Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 11, 1982 (DGMLive; 2023)

Karim Sulayman & Sean Shibe – Broken Branches (Pentatone; 2023)

Ruby Hughes & Manchester Collective – End of My Days (BIS; due Jan. 19, 2024)

Lee Ranaldo – Hurricane Sandy Transcriptions (original demo) (self-released; 2021)

Dither – Laurie Spiegel's "The Expanding Universe" at Public Records (YouTube; 2023)