A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Oct. 6–12, 2025.

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

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

Rush – R40 Live (Anthem; 2015)

Rush – R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour (Anthem; 2005)

Max Richter – Sleep Circle (Deutsche Grammophon; 2025)

Serena Gabriel – IZAR (Timeroom; 2025)

Phish – Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, Oct. 6, 2000 (Phish.in’; 2000)

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 7 in E minor – National Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (National Symphony Orchestra; due Dec. 5, 2025)

Ludwig van Beethoven – The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 – Ariel Quartet (Orchid Classics; due Nov. 7, 2025)

Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited – Roots Chimurenga (Chimurenga Music; 1996)

Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited – Toi Toi (Anonym; 2002)

claire rousay – a collective offering (Thrill Jockey; 2025)

Orchestre du Centre national des Arts du Canada/Alexander Shelley – Poema 1. Ad Astra (Analekta; 2025)

▸ Richard Strauss – Don Juan; Kelly-Marie Murphy – Dark Night, Bright Stars, Vast Universe; Kevin Lau – The Infinite Reaches; Richard Strauss – Tod und Verklärung

Orchestre du Centre national des Arts du Canada/Alexander Shelley – Poema 2. Terra Nova (Analekta; due Nov. 14, 2025)

▸ Ian Cusson – 1Q84: Sinfonietta Metamoderna; Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra

Motion Sickness of Time Travel/Grant Evans – Dark Macramé/FM Prayer (Hooker Vision; 2025)

Jason Rigby – Mayhem (endectomorph music; 2025)

Simone Dinnerstein – Undersong (Orange Mountain Music; 2022)

▸ François Couperin – Les barricades mystérieuses; Robert Schumann – Arabesque; Philip Glass – Mad Rush; François Couperin – Tic Toc Choc; Erik Satie – Gnossienne No. 3; Robert Schumann – Kreisleriana

The Necks – Disquiet (Northern Spy; 2025)

Frost* – Life in the Wires (InsideOut Music; 2024)

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

The Dream Syndicate – Medicine Show – 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition (A&M/Down There; 1984/2025)

Sarah Davachi – Songs of the Smile’s Fig – Chamber Choir Ireland/Nils Schweckendiek (Louth Contemporary Music Society; 2025)

Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show – Elemental View (Room40; 2025)

Pocket Quartet – Hard-Boiled Music (Cure-All; due Nov. 7, 2025)

Squeaky Feet – Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, Denver, CO, Oct. 10, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Squeaky Feet – Overview Effect (self-released; 2025)

Patrick O’Hearn – Quattro Amici (self-released; 2024)

Michael Stearns – Ancient Leaves (Continuum Mirage; 1977)

Dave Douglas – Alloy (Greenleaf Music; 2025)

Setting – at Public Records (self-released; 2025)

Michael Stearns – Collected Ambient & Textural Works (1977–1987) (Hearts of Space; 1996)

Phish – Coca-Cola Amphitheater, Birmingham, AL, Sept. 14, 2025 (LivePhish; 2025)

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[Title key: Frost*, “Starting Fires”]