A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Sept. 28–Oct. 5, 2025.

Fred Hersch – The Surrounding Green (ECM; 2025)

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 – London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (LSO Live; 2025)

David Behrman – On the Other Ocean (Lovely Music; 1978)

Mason Bates – Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra – Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Edwin Outwater (World’s Greatest Synth; 2022)

Paul Cornish – You’re Exaggerating! (Blue Note; 2025)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathétique”); Marche Slave – Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev (Virgin Classics; 1991)

Steve Tibbetts – Close (ECM; due Oct. 24, 2025)

Steve Long – VĪXĪ (endectomorph music; 2024)

Haptic – The Medium (Flingco Sound System; 2009)

Dizgo – Kenny’s Westside Pub, Peoria, IL, Sept. 27, 2025 (self-released; 2025)

Dopapod – Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 29, 2024 (self-released; 2024)

Sarah Saviet & Joseph Houston – Lines We Gather – compositions by Michael Finnissy, Saviet/Houston, Lawrence Dunn, Iannis Xenakis, and Rebecca Saunders/Enno Poppe (Winter & Winter; due Nov. 21, 2025)

Big Big Train – Are We Nearly There Yet? (English Electric; 2025)

Stuart Bogie & Buck McDaniel – November Variations: Wednesday 11/13/24 (self-released; 2025)

Page McConnell – Something Will Land (Keyed; 2025)

Taper’s Choice – Prog Hat (self-released; 2025)

John Scofield/Dave Holland – Memories of Home (ECM; due Nov. 21, 2025)

Nijiumu – When I sing, I slip into the microphone. Into that void, I bring comrade “prayers”, then, turning to face the outside, together we explode. (Black Truffle; due Oct. 10, 2025, recorded 1994)

Wet Tuna – SOUND DIMENSION: FMB (self-released; 2025)

Big Big Train – A Stone’s Throw from the Line (English Electric; 2016)

Big Big Train – Merchants of Light (English Electric; 2018)

Big Big Train – Summer Shall Not Fade (English Electric; 2023)

Big Big Train – Empire (English Electric; 2020)

Big Big Train – A Flare on the Lens (InsideOut Music; 2024)

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[Title key: Big Big Train, “The Transit of Venus Across the Sun”]