A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Oct. 20–26, 2025.

Armida Quartett – Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. IV (Cavi-Music; 2021)

Poiesis Quartet – Poiesis Quartet at Banff International String Quartet Competition 2025 (YouTube playlist; 2025)

Armida Quartett – Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. V (Cavi-Music; 2022)

Goose – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, June 28, 2025 (self-released; 2025)

Squeaky Feet – City Winery Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 16, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Dizgo – City Winery Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 16, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

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

Steve Tibbetts – Close (ECM; 2025)

Mark Fell – Psychic Resynthesis – Explore Ensemble (Frozen Reeds; 2025)

Derrick Skye – Deliverance – Ivalas Quartet (EPIC Concerts/YouTube; 2024)

Nokuthula Ngwenyama – Flow – Takács Quartet (Hyperion; 2024)

Osvaldo Golijov – Tenebrae; Eleanor Alberga – String Quartet No. 1; Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat (Op. 130) – Ivalas Quartet (Schneider Concerts/YouTube; 2022)

Squeaky Feet – King’s Rook Club, Erie, PA, Oct. 17, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Squeaky Feet – Flour City Station, Rochester, NY, Oct. 18, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Ensemble 0 – L’incroyable femme des neiges (laaps; due Nov. 12, 2025)

Johannes Brahms – String Quintet No. 2 in G (Op. 111); Antonín Dvořák – String Quartet No. 12 in F (Op. 96 “American”); Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Clarinet Quintet (Op. 10) – Ayane Kozasa, Anthony McGill, Ivalas Quartet (Schneider Concerts/YouTube; 2025)

Franz Joseph Haydn – String Quartet in F (Op. 50, No. 5, “The Dream”); Raven Chacon – Journey of the Horizontal People; Kaija Saariaho – Terra Memoria; Leoš Janáček – String Quartet No. 2 (“Intimate Letters”) – Erinys Quartet (Schneider Concerts/YouTube; 2025)

Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No. 16 in F (Op. 135); Alvin Singleton – String Quartet No. 3 (“Somehow We Can”); Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (Op. 13); George Walker – String Quartet No. 1, Movement 2 – Ivalas Quartet (Schneider Concerts/YouTube; 2025)

Dizgo – Deep Dive, Ithaca, NY, Oct. 19, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Steve Roach and Erik Wøllo – The Road Eternal (Projekt; 2025)

Thætas – Shrines to Absurdity (Maggot Stomp; 2020)

Needlepusher – Abyssal Internment (Maggot Stomp; 2021)

Testament – Para Bellum (Nuclear Blast; 2025)

Krallice – No Hope (self-released; 2025)

Possessed – Seven Churches (Combat/Century Media; 1985/2020)

Death – Leprosy – Deluxe Reissue (Combat/Relapse; 1988/2014)

Squeaky Feet – The 8×10, Baltimore, MD, Oct. 19, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Squeaky Feet – Your Mom’s House, Denver, CO, Jan. 4, 2020 (self-released; 2020)

Squeaky Feet – 10 Mile Music Hall, Frisco, CO, March 4, 2022 (self-released; 2022)

Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness (Full Dynamic Range Edition) (Earache; 1989/2016)

Pestilence – Consuming Impulse (R/C Records/Agonia; 1989/2023)

Kyle Gann – Nocturnes I-XI – Emanuele Arciuli (Bard Conservatory/YouTube; 2025)

Jack DeJohnette – New Directions (ECM; 1978)

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[Title key: Goose, “A Western Sun”]