A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Nov. 3–9, 2025.

Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 33, Nos. 4-6 – Chiaroscuro Quartet (Bis; 2025)

Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat (Op. 127) – Isidore String Quartet (Isidore String Quartet/YouTube; 2025)

Pierre Boulez – Livre pour Quatuor – Quatuor Diotima (Pentatone; 2025)

Lei Liang – String Quartets: Live (New Focus; 2025)

▸ Lamento della ninfa – Brentano Quartet; Song Recollections – Formosa Quartet; Gobi Gloria – JACK Quartet; Serashi Fragments – Mivos Quartet; Madrigal Mongolia – Brentano Quartet

Telegraph Quartet – Edge of the Storm (Azica; 2025)

▸ Grażyna Bacewicz – String Quartet No. 4; Benjamin Britten – String Quartet No. 1 in D (Op. 25); Mieczysław Weinberg – String Quartet No. 6 in E minor (Op. 35)

The Hemphill Stringtet – Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head; 2025)

Dead & Company – Fenway Park, Boston, MA, July 15, 2016 (Archive.org; 2016)

Dizgo – The Brooklyn Monarch, Oct. 24, 2025 (self-released; 2025)

Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto – Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, TN, March 24, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)

Twelfth Night – University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England, Feb. 11, 1983 (ROIO; 1983)

IQ – Pennyfarthing, Oxford, England, July 7, 1984 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1984)

Glorious Depravity – Death Never Sleeps (Transcending Obscurity; 2025)

Zosha Warpeha – silver dawn (Relative Pitch; 2024)

Andrew McIntosh – Fixations (Kairos; 2025)

▸ 434.6 – Aperture Duo; Fixations – Wild Up/Christopher Rountree; Duo for viola and cello, with any number of violins – Andrew McIntosh, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Wild Up/Christopher Rountree

Theo Alexander – Stable Processes with Slow Ornaments (Flung; 2025)

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

Squeaky Feet – Nublu, New York, NY, Sept. 3, 2022 (self-released; 2022)

Derek Bailey & John Stevens – The Duke of Wellington (Confront Recordings; 2025)

Big Big Train – “Inkwell Black” + “The Artist” from Woodcut (InsideOut Music; due Feb. 6, 2026)

Mayhem – “Weep for Nothing” from Liturgy of Death (Century Media; due Feb. 6, 2026)

Pat Thomas – HIKMAH (Tao Forms; 2025)

Rosalía – Lux (Columbia; 2025)

Robert Rich & Markus Reuter – Incubation (Soundscape; 2025)

Oromet – The Sinking Isle (Transylvanian Recordings: 2025)

Alban Berg – String Quartet (Op. 3); Anton Webern – Langsamer Satz; Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet No. 2 (Op. 10) – Carolyn Sampson, Heath Quartet (Signum Classics; 2022)

Alban Berg – String Quartet (Op. 3); Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor (Op. 108); György Ligeti – String Quartet No. 1 (“Métamorphoses nocturnes”) – Minetti Quartet (Hänssler Classic; 2023)

Ludwig van Beethoven – The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 – Ariel Quartet (Orchid Classics; 2025)

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

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[Title key: Mayhem, “Weep for Nothing”]