Luke Muehlhauser

Media diet for Q4 2025

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Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

I also listened to a significant portion of the recorded works by each of the (new-to-me) composers listed below.1 My favorites pieces from them (names linked to playlists) were:

  • Marjan Mozetich (b. 1948): Desire at Twilight (1986), The Passion of Angels (1995), Affairs of the Heart (1997), Steps to Ecstasy (2001), Scales of Joy and Sorrow (2007), String Quartet No. 2 (2008), Procession of Duos (2011), Viola Concerto (2013)
  • Nigel Westlake (b. 1958): some of Missa Solis (2010), Spirit of the Wild (2016)
  • Elena Kats-Chernin (b. 1957): Wedding Suite (1996), “Skeletons in the Cupboard” (1999), some of People on Sunday (2000), “Deep Sea Dreaming” (2000), Displaced Dances (2000), Piano Concerto No. 2 (2001), some of Wild Swans Concert Suite (2002), “Slicked Back Tango” (2002), Re-Inventions (2004), The Spirit and the Maiden (2004), Mythic (2004), “Butterflying” (2004), “Russian Rag” (2004), Silver Poetry Suite (2004), Ornamental Air (2007), “Road to Harvest” (2007), “Calliope Dreaming” (2009), “Consolation” (2009), Redmyre Suite (2009), Without Words (2009), “Tree of Love” & “Mesmerised” (2011), “Dance of the Paper Umbrellas” (2013), Prelude & Cube (2014), Sunshine Journal (2014), The Three Dancers (2015), Night and Now (2015), Macquarie’s Castle (2015), The Offering (2015), The Witching Hour (2016), “Pitter Patter” (2016), Big Rhap (2017), Ancient Letters (2017), Piano Concerto No. 3 (2018), Inner Angels (2020), “Times of Rain and Sun” (2022), “Memoir of a Snail” & “Alouette” (2024)
    • With these new listens, Kats-Chernin has crossed the 5-hour mark as one of my favorite musical artists!
  • Victor Davies (b. 1939): The Mennonite Piano Concerto (1975), Pulsations (1978), some of Opening And Closing Ceremonies Music From The XIII Pan American Games (1999), “Colours of Jazz” (2003)
  • Gareth Farr (b. 1968): Ahi mvt 4 (1998)
  • Ye Xiaogang (b. 1955): “Starry Sky” (2008)
  • Debbie Wiseman (b. 1963): “Wilde” & “Wild West” (1997), “Centuries Ago” (2009), “Jubile Gigue” (2012), New Water Music “Gigue” (2012), “Wolf Hall” (2015), The Musical Zodiac (2016), “Den Reisende (The Traveller)” (2017), “Salute” (2018), “A Lustre to This Day” (2020), The Music of Kings and Queens (2021), “A First Sunrise” (2022), “Onwards” (2022)
  • Nigel Hess (b. 1953): East Coast Pictures mvt 3 (1985), New London Pictures mvt 1 (2003), Piano Concerto (2007), The Lochnagar Suite mvts 1 & 3 (2012)
  • Carlos Simon (b. 1986): Tales mvt 1 (2021), Four Black American Dances (2022)
  • Lu Pei (b. 1956): “Taming the Waters” (2014)
  • Zhang Shuai (b. 1979): “Run” (2010), some of Daughter of the Sun (2015), “Millennium Appointment” (2017)
  • Dirk Brossé (b. 1960): “Philadelphia Overture” (2010), “In Motu” (2012), “The Pulse of Joy” (2021)
  • Jiang Ying (b. 1985?): “Dunhuang” (2009), “Silk Road” (2010), some of Xuanzang’s Pilgrimage (2017), Ode to Life (2020), Hardship and Glory (2021), Ode to Time (2023)
  • Zhao Lin (b. 1973): “Distant Green Valley” & “Battle Remembered” (2004)
  • Etienne Perruchon (b. 1958): Dogora (2004)
  • Allan Gilliland (b. 1965): Shadows & Light (2000), Dreaming of the Masters I (2003), Dreaming of the Masters II (2007), Three Faces of Ebony mvts 2 & 3 (2007), Dreaming of the Masters III mvts 1 & 3 (2010), “Morse” (2012), “Procol Fantasy” (2013), Concerto for Cello, Strings, and Harpsichord mvt 1 (2016), Dreaming of the Masters IV mvts 1 & 3 (2018), Pipe Dreams (2019)
  • Jonathan Dove (b. 1959): “Run to the Edge” (2003)
  • David Holsinger (b. 1945): “Prelude and Rondo” (1966), Ballet Sacra (1990), To Tame the Perilous Skies (1992), “At the Strongholds of en Gedi” (1996), “Abram’s Pursuit” (1998), “Prairie Dances” (1998), “Scootin’ on the Hardrock” (1999), “Battle Music” (1999), “Providence Unfinished” (2002), “A Little Adventure Music ” (2002), “Gears Pulleys Chains” (2005), Divertimented Dances mvt 3 (2006), Cityscape (2008), “Solemn Hymn & Rowdy Dance” (2011)
  • Peter Graham (b. 1958): Call of the Cossacks mvt 3 (2002), On the Shoulders of Giants mvt 1 (2010)
  • Oliver Waespi (b. 1971): Divertimento mvt 3 (2011)
  • Marco Putz (b. 1958): Arrows of Lightning mvts 1, 3, 4 (2007)
  • Samy Moussa (b. 1984): “A Globe Itself Infolding” (2014), “Orpheus” (2017), Pantagruel mvts 1, 3, 6 (2019), Violin Concerto “Adrano” (2019), “Ring” (2020), “Elysium” (2021), Symphony No. 2 (2022), “Adgilis Deda” (2024)
  • Dinuk Wijeratne (b. 1978): “This Way Up” (2008), Tabla Concerto mvt 1 (2011)
  • Errollyn Wallen (b. 1958): Concerto Grosso mvt 3 (2008)
  • Hayato Sumino (b. 1995): “Tinkerland” (2020), “One Minute Hourglass” (2021), “Turkish March Variations in All 24 Keys” (2024)
  • David Gillingham (b. 1947): Concerto For Piano, Percussion And Wind Orchestra mvts 1 & 3 (2004)
  • Samuel Hazo (b. 1966): “Ride” (2002), “Arabesque” (2008), “Across the Halfpipe” (2008)
  • Brian Balmages (b. 1975): “Blue Ridge Reel” (2013), “Rippling Watercolors” (2015), “Renaissance Reimagined” (2017), “Infinite Hope” (2018)
  • Morton Gould (b. 1913): Interplay mvt 4 (1945)
  • Dmitry Kabalevsky (b. 1904): “Galop of the Comedians” (1940), Violin Concerto (1948), Piano Concerto No. 3 (1952)
  • William Grant Still (b. 1895): Symphony No. 1 mvts 1, 3 (1930), Symphony No. 3 mvt 1 (1958)
  • José Pablo Moncayo (b. 1912): “Huapango” (1941)
  • Pablo de Sarasate (b. 1884): “Gypsy Airs” mvt 3 (1876), “Caprice basque” (1880), Carmen Fantasy mvts 1, 2, 5 (1883), “Sérénade andalouse” [Op. 28] (1883), “Miramar” (1899)
  • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (b. 1859): Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 2, mvts 3, 4 (1896), Turkish Fragments mvts 1, 2, 4 (1930), “Turkish March” (1932)
  • Franz von Suppe (b. 1819): Poet and Peasant Overture (1846), Light Cavalry Overture (1866)
  • Georgy Sviridov (b. 1915): The Snowstorm [Blizzard] mvts 2, 4, 9 (1975)
  • Albert Ketèlbey (b. 1875): “In a Monastery Garden” (1915), “In a Persian Market” (1920), “In the Mystic Land of Egypt” (1931)
  • Ludwig Minkus (b. 1826): some of La Source (1866), some of Don Quixote (1869)
  • Ronald Binge (b. 1910): “Madrugado” (1945), “The Red Sombrero” (1947), Saxophone Concerto mvt 3 (1956), “Las Castañuelas” (1960)
  • Jules Massenet (b. 1842): Suite No. 5 mvts 1, 3 (1876), Suite No. 6 mvts 1, 2, 4 (1881)
  • James Barnes (b. 1949): “Caribbean Hideaway” (1997)
  • Adolphe Adam (b. 1803): “O Holy Night” (1847), Le corsaire “Ecossaise” (1856)
  • Evan Call (b. 1988): some of The 13 Lords of the Shogun (2022), some of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (2024)
  • Kenji Bunch (b. 1973): “Concerto for Piano Trio and Percussion” (1996), “Arachnophobia” (1997), “Boiling Point” & “Swing Shift” (2002), Piano Concerto mvt 3 (2011), “Groovebox Fantasy” (2016)
  • A.R. Rahman (b. 1967): “Raga’s Dance” (2004), some of Muhammad (2015), Ponniyin Selvan “Chozha’s Bravery” & “The Fall of Pandya” (2024)
  • Eunike Tanzil (b. 1998): “Be My Home” & “Serenade” (2024), The First of Everything (2025)
  • Camille Pepin (b. 1990): La Source d’Yggdrasil (2018), The Sound of Trees (2019), Laniakea (2019), Aux confins de l’orage (2021), Les Eaux célestes (2023), “Un Monde nouveau” (2024)
  • Bao Yuankai (b. 1944): some of Chinese Sights and Sounds (1991)
  • Du Mingxin (b. 1928): “Festival Overture” (1958), Mermaid Suite “Mass Dance at the Wedding” (1959), Violin Concerto No. 1 (1982), some of 10 Xinjiang Dances (1984), Piano Concerto No. 1 mvt 3 (1988), Phoenix Rebirth (2011), Piano Concerto No. 4 mvt 3 (2020)
  • Douwe Eisenga (b. 1961): Piano Concerto mvts 1 & 3 (2003), some of Music for Wiek (2009), “Delta Dance” (2009), “La casa degli specchi” (2011), “The Line” (2014), “Bliss” & “Tick” (2016), Block Attack mvt 3 (2019), some of The Border (2022), “Returning Days” (2025)
  • Graeme Koehne (b. 1956): “To His Servant Bach…” (1989), “Unchained Melody” (1990), “Elevator Music” (1997), In-Flight Entertainment (2000), Tivoli Dances mvt 3 (2005), Time is a River (2010), “Forty Reasons to Be Cheerful” (2012), “Just Walk Beside Me” (2013), “The Persistence of Memory” (2013), “Song of the Open Road” (2017)
  • Andy Akiho (b. 1979): “Ki Iro – Yellow” (2022)
  • Michel Camilo (b. 1954): most of Why Not? (1985), some of Suntan (1986), most of Michel Camilo (1988), most of On Fire (1989), some of On the Other Hand (1990), some of Rendezvous (1993), most of One More Once (1994), Concerto for Piano & Orchestra (2001), Suite for Piano, Strings & Harp mvts 1, 4 (2001), Concerto for Jazz Trio & Orchestra (2017), some of Essence (2019)
    • With these new listens, Camilo has crossed the 5-hour mark as one of my favorite musical artists!
  • Masayoshi Soken (b. 1975): “Footprints in the Snow” (2010), some of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (2014), “A Cold Wind” (2016), “Crimson Sunrise” & “Ultima” (2017), “From the Heavens” & “Pain in Pleasure” & “Vamo alla Flamenco” (2019), “Sixteen Bells” (2023), plus an orchestral adaptation of “Torn from the Heavens” (2014)
  • Alexander Rosenblatt (b. 1956): “Gipsy Fantasy” (2009)
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk (b. 1829): “Grande Tarentelle” (1864)
  • Dan Forrest (b. 1978): Jubilatae Deo “Ngokujabula!” (2016)
  • William Susman (b. 1960): Camille mvt 3 (2010), Piano Concerto (2011)
  • Paul Schoenfield (b. 1947): Cafe Music mvt 1 (1986), Vaudeville mvt 1 (1988)
  • Belinda Gehlert (b. 1984): Femme Fatale mvt 1 (2013), “Driving” (2015), “Torschlusspanik” (2020), Planetarium mvts 1, 3 (2025)
  • Viet Cuong (b. 1990): Sound and Smoke mvt 2 (2011), “Moth” (2013), Re(new)al (2018), “Extra(ordinarily) Fancy” (2019), Tuba Concerto (2019), Fine Lines (2019), “Full Circle” (2020), “Sanctuary” (2020), “Next Week’s Trees” (2021), “Room to Move” (2021), Vital Sines (2022), “Deciduous” (2022), Stargazer (2023), Second Nature (2024), “Evergreen” (2025)
  • Wu Zuqiang (b. 1927): The Mermaid Suite mvts 8-9 (2004)
  • Elliot Leung (b. 1995): Symphony No. 1 mvt 1 (2023), Chinese Kitchen “Deep Fried Sesame Balls” (2024)
  • Chen Yu-Peng (b. 1984): Genshin Impact: The Wind and the Star Traveler (2020), some of Genshim Impact: City of Winds and Idylls (2020), some of Genshin Impact: Jade Moon Upon a Sea of Clouds (2020), some of Fantasyland (2025)
  • Roc Chen (b. 1984): some of Red Sorghum (2015), some of Evernight (2019)
  • Jens Kruger (b. 1962): “Waterfall” (2002), “Pull that Brake” (2004), The Suite, Vol. 1 (2007), Appalachian Concerto (2011), some of Profile (2012), “Cork Harbor” (2012), some of Spirit of the Rockies (2014), Lucid Dreamer (2015), Roan Mountain Suite (2017), Moonshine Sonata (2023)
  • Jacques Ibert (b. 1890): Divertissement mvts 4 & 6 (1930)
  • Arturo Cardelús (b. 1981): Con Aire de Tango (2015), “Grace” (2016), “Vida” (2022)
  • Kayhan Kalhor (b. 1964): Blue as the Turquoise Night of Neyshabur (2000)
  • Rodion Shchedrin (b. 1932): some of Carmen Suite (1967)
  • Alexander Tsfasman (b. 1906): “Intermezzo for Clarinet” (1944), Jazz Suite (1945)
  • Allan Zavod (b. 1945): some of What’s New (1980), Concerto Australiana mvts 1, 2 (1988), Good Vibrations (2015)
  • Henry Wolking (b. 1948): “Chick” (1975), “Rush Hour Shuffle” (1984), “Methenyology” (1988), Powell Canyons (1996), Letting Midnight Out on Bail (1997), “Sumo Mix” (2006), “In Sea” (2010?), “A Piece of Cake” (2016)
  • Roberto Molinelli (b. 1963): “Milonga para Astor” (1988), 4 Pictures from New York mvt 1, 2, 4 (2001), “Twin Legends” (2004), Once Upon a Memory mvts 4, 6, 8 (2007), Trittico (2009), “Sempre Caro Mi E” (2009), Lady Walton’s Garden (2018), William’s Rock (2019), “The Missing E” (2022), “Swingin’ 24” (2022)
  • Vinicio Meza (b. 1968): “Pasillo Enredao” (2011)
  • Laurie Johnson (b. 1927): Symphony: Synthesis mvts 1, 2, 4, 5 (1969)
  • Eduard Künneke (b. 1885): Tanzerische Suite mvts 1, 3, 5 (1929)
  • Jessica Curry (b. 1973): some of So Let Us Melt (2017)
  • Igor Raykhelson (b. 1961): Jazz Suite mvt 2 (2005)
  • Wojciech Kostrzewa (b. 1992): “Fog Noir” (2024)
  • Guillaume Saint-James (b. 1967): some of Megapolis (2012), “Sur mon nuage” (2012), some of La symphonie “Bleu” (2021)
  • Elizabeth Knudson (b. 1981): Blueprint (2016)
  • Jonathan Newman (b. 1972): “Chunk” (2003), Symphony No. 1 mvt 1 (2009), “Blow It Up, Start Again” (2011), “3 O’Clock Mix” (2012)
  • Bruce Broughton (b. 1945): “Message Montage” (1990)
  • Ernesto Lecuona (b. 1896): “Andalucía” (1923), “Malagueña” (1928)
  • Dave Flynn (b. 1977): “Glass and Reich Go to Tulla” (2013), Symphony No. 1 mvts 1, 3 (2017)
  • Shaun Davey (b. 1948): The Brendan Voyage (1980), some of The Pilgrim (1983), The Relief of Derry Symphony mvts 1, 2, 4 (1990), most of May We Never Have To Say Goodbye (2003)
  • Mark O’Connor (b. 1961): “Sweet Suzanne” (1991), The Fiddle Concerto mvts 1, 3 (1993), Call of the Mockingbird (1996), “Swingin’ on the ’Ville” (2000), “In Full Swing” (2002), “Gypsy Fantastic” (2004), March of the Gypsy Fiddler mvt 3 (2009), The Improvised Violin Concerto (2010)
  • Edgar Meyer (b. 1960): “Death by Triple Fiddle” (1997), The Melody of Rhythm mvts 1, 3 (2006)
  • Yasunori Nishiki (b. 1985): some of Octopath Traveler II (2023)
  • Giovanni Sollima (b. 1962): “Terra Aria” (2003), Il Concerto Perduto mvt 3 (2021)
  • Denny Schneidemesser (b. 1988): “Thunderdome” (2008), “Call of Calamity” (2011), “Veni Vidi Vici” (2011), “The Humans” (2013), Dreams of Flight (2014), “Mystical Spirit” (2014), “Dusk’s Flight” (2022)
  • Jasha Klebe (b. 1989?): Time-Lapse (2019), “Hum” (2021), “World on the Move” (2023), “Spotlight” (2025)
  • Zakir Hussain (b. 1951): The Melody of Rhythm mvts 1, 3 (2006)
  • Jacob Shea (b. 1982): “Planet Earth II Suite” (2016)
  • Daniel Schnyder (b. 1961): Concerto for Nay mvt 4 (2005), “Bamboo Man” & “Da Skale” (2007)
  • Tim Garland (b. 1966): “Bajo del Sol” (2009), “Sama’i for Peace” (2016), “Rugged Land” & “Angry Sun” (2018), “Night Flight” (2020), “Approaching Winter” (2024)
  • Don Sebesky (b. 1937): Bird and Bela in B Flat, mvts 2, 3 (1979)
  • Mike Herting (b. 1954): some of Sai Symphony (2015)
  • Corentin Boissier (b. 1995): L’Enfance de l’Art mvt 2 (2005), Glamour Concerto (2012), Philip Marlowe Concerto (2013)
  • Airat Ichmouratov (b. 1973): Viola Concerto No. 1 mvts 1, 3 (2004), David of Sassoun (2006), Concerto No. 1 for Cello and Strings with Percussion (2009), “The Ride of Cello-Vello Buffon” (2010), Concerto Grosso No. 1 (2011), Maslenitsa Overture (2013), Piano Concerto (2013), Viola Concerto No. 2 mvts 1, 3 (2015), Youth Overture (2016), “Soulmate” (2016), “The Ninth Wave” (2018)
  • Don Gillis (b. 1912): Symphony 5 1/2 mvts 1, 3, 4 (1946)
  • Georgs Pelecis (b. 1947): Concertino Bianco mvts 1, 3 (1983), “Meeting with a Friend” (2001), Buena Riga (2001) “55 + 5” (2002), Dedication (2003), Revelation (2003), “Flowering Jasmine” (2007), Endorphin Music (2011), “Field of Dandelions” (2017), Fiori Musicali mvts 2, 3 (2022)
  • Pavel Karmanov (b. 1970): “ARIAtions” (1996), “Seven Minutes until Christmas” (1996), “Music for Firework” (1997), “Trout-quintet” (1998), “Music for Answering Machine” (1999), “Music for Spaceflight” (1999), “Schlaf, mein Herz, schlaf ein (Sleep, My Heart)” (2000), “Michael Music” (2004), “Cambridge Music” (2008), Twice a Double Concerto (2009), “Different Brooks” (2011), Day One (2011), “Tatiana” & “Anastasia” (2013), “Music con Cello” (2015)
  • Ezio Bosso (b. 1971): Violin Concerto No. 1 mvts 1, 3 (2006), some of Road Signs Variations (2008), “The Last Breath” (2009), Symphony No. 1 mvts 1, 3, 6 (2009), Symphony No. 2 mvts 2, 3, 4, 5 (2010), some of Music for Weather Elements (2011)
  • Joseph Tawadros (b. 1983): “Guardian” (2008), “Bluegrass Nikriz” & “Permission to Evaporate” & “Constantinople” & “Eye of the Beholder” (2014), “The Adventure” (2016), Oud Concerto mvts 1, 3 (2017), “The Bluebird” (2018), “Man Plans, God Laughs” (2021)
  • Anthony Ritchie (b. 1960): Symphony No. 6 mvt 1 (2021)
  • Tigran Mansurian (b. 1939): “Gortsughum Aroghjaran” (1981)
  • Oscar Navarro (b. 1981): El Arca de Noe (2005), “Paradise” (2005), Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (2006), “Mustafa” (2009), “Things of Destiny” (2009), Libertadores (2010), “Downey Overture” (2011), Creation mvts 1, 3 (2011), Clarinet Concerto No. 2 (2012), “Hispania” (2013), “The Fly” (2013), “El Ilustre Marino” (2013), some of La Mula (2013), La Mula concert suite (2013), El Olimpo de los Dioses (2015), some of Sueños de Sal (2015), “Arabian Gypsy Promenade” (2015), Expedition (2016), “Paconchita” (2016), “Latent Emotions” (2016), “Rose in Flames” (2017), “Gimenez Ganga” (2018), Symphony No. 1 (2019), “New Dawn” (2022), “Jenaro Melguizo” (2022), Cumbre Alta (2023), Infinity (2024), “Overture King Felipe VI” (2024)
    • With these new listens, Navarro has crossed the 5-hour mark as one of my favorite musical artists!
  • Kevin Kaska (b. 1972): “Battle for Altantis” (2001)
  • Plus the following composers for which I didn’t “strongly like” any of their pieces I listened to: Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1929), Roxanna Panufnik (b. 1968), Alexey Shor (b. 1970), Howard Goodall (b. 1958), Lee Holdridge (b. 1944), Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972), Quinn Mason (b. 1996), Edward Gregson (b. 1945), Jia Daqun (b. 1955), Anthony Iannaccone (b. 1943), Tolga Kashif (b. 1962), Martin Keary (b. 1982), Wang Danhong (b. 1981), Han Lankui (b. 1959), Zheng Bing (b. 1956), Jia Guoping (b. 1963), Joseph Curiale (b. 1955), Steven Reineke (b. 1970), Zhou Xianglin (b. 1963), Shi Ziwei (b. 1963), Weng Chigeng (b. 1960), Wen Ziyang (b. 1998), Wang Tianming (b. 1964?), Chris Brubeck (b. 1952), Alexina Louie (b. 1949), Clarice Assad (b. 1978), Steven Bryant (b. 1972), Daniel Dorff (b. 1956), Jan Van der Roost (b. 1956), Satoshi Yagisawa (b. 1975), Kamala Sankaram (b. 1978), Jordan Pal (b. 1983), John Burge (b. 1961), Thomas Doss (b. 1966), Martin Ellerby (b. 1957), Ferrer Ferran (b. 1966), Deantha Edmunds (b. 1972), Ana Sokolovic (b. 1968), Jocelyn Morlock (b. 1969), Jordan Nobles (b. 1969), Adrian Sutton (b. 1967), Brian Current (b. 1972), Allan Gordon Bell (b. 1953), Christos Hatzis (b. 1953), Denis Gougeon (b. 1951), Bramwell Tovey (b. 1953), Chan Ka Nin (b. 1949), Oskar Morawetz (b. 1917), Stephen Hartke (b. 1952), Robert Aldridge (b. 1954), Peter Lieberson (b. 1946), George Tsontakis (b. 1951), Percy Grainger (b. 1882), Jean Françaix (b. 1912), Ron Nelson (b. 1929), Eric Ewazen (b. 1954), Uuno Klami (b. 1900), Alexander Tcherepnin (b. 1899), Alberto Ginastera (b. 1916), Carlos Chavez (b. 1899), Silvestre Revueltas (b. 1899), Vittorio Giannini (b. 1903), Yasunori Mitsuda (b. 1972), Zoltán Kodály (b. 1882), Hitoshi Sakimoto (b. 1969), Joaquín Turina (b. 1882), Eric Coates (b. 1886), Fikret Amirov (b. 1922), Akira Ifukube (b. 1914), Kurt Atterberg (b. 1887), Erkki Melartin (b. 1875), Johan Svendsen (b. 1840), Gara Garayev (b. 1918), Ulvi Cemal Erkin (b. 1906), Julie Giroux (b. 1961), Robert Farnon (b. 1917), Haydn Wood (b. 1882), Riccardo Drigo (b. 1846), William Alwyn (b. 1905), Alfred Reed (b. 1925), Julius Röntgen (b. 1855), Geirr Tveitt (b. 1908), Sergei Bortkiewicz (b. 1877), Manuel Ponce (b. 1882), Stephen Melillo (b. 1957), Rossano Galante (b. 1967), Samuel Zyman (b. 1956), Reena Esmail (b. 1983), He Xuntian (b. 1952), Andre Mehmari (b. 1977), Masashi Hamauzu (b. 1971), Stephen Paulus (b. 1949), Hiroyuki Sawano (b. 1980), Yuki Kajiura (b. 1965), Murray Gold (b. 1969), Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981), Ross Edwards (b. 1943), Salvador Brotons (b. 1959), Xaver Scharwenka (b. 1850), Jacob de Haan (b. 1959), Anders Koppel (b. 1947), Franz Lehár (b. 1870), Yoko Kanno (b. 1963), Earl Wild (b. 1915), Shiro Sagisu (b. 1957), George Lloyd (b. 1913), Nitin Sawhney (b. 1964), Stuart Greenbaum (b. 1966), Judith Weir (b. 1954), William Barton (b. 1981), Michael Gandolfi (b. 1956), Paul Dooley (b. 1983), Michael Markowski (b. 1986), Dana Wilson (b. 1946), Yutaka Kimura (b. 1985), Jimmy López (b. 1978), Alexandre Tansman (b. 1897), Adam Gorb (b. 1958), Guan Xia (b. 1957), Liu Wenjin (b. 1937), Otar Taktakishvili (b. 1924), Ding Shande (b. 1911), Yu Man Ching “Donald” (b. 1980), Tang Jianping (b. 1955), Enrique Granados (b. 1867), Paul Creston (b. 1906), Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis (b. 1988?), Johann Nepomuk Hummel (b. 1778), Ferdinand Ries (b. 1784), Tyāgayya (b. 1767), Derek Bermel (b. 1967), William Thomas McKinley (b. 1938), Nadia Burgess (b. 1958), Sid Robinovitch (b. 1942), Tyzen Hsiao (b. 1938), Ann Southam (b. 1937), David García Díaz (b. 1979), Jason Graves (b. 1973), John Dankworth (b. 1927), Yaron Gottfried (b. 1968), Paul Amrod (b. 1951), James Hartway (b. 1944), Angel Peña (b. 1921), Leonid Polovinkin (b. 1894), Stephan Konig (b. 1963), Matthias Dorsam (b. 1960), Wolfgang Schmidtke (b. 1956), Gabriel Pierné (b. 1863), Paquito D’Rivera (b. 1948), Dominique Marchal (b. 1952), Howard Brubeck (b. 1916), Gordon Goodwin (b. 1954), Frédéric Volanti (b. 1979?), Eugenio Toussaint (b. 1954), Martial Solal (b. 1927), Harold Farberman (b. 1929), Paulo Bellinati (b. 1950), Hector Infanzon (b. 1959), Luis Arias (b. 1940), Neil Martin (b. 1962), Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (b. 1950), Adolfo Mejía Navarro (b. 1905), Honorio Siccardi (b. 1897), Inocente Carreño (b. 1919), Paul Wiancko (b. 1983), Sebastian Hilli (b. 1990), Courtney Bryan (b. 1982), Takeshi Furukawa (b. 1983?), Michael Makhal (b. 1984?), Shruthi Rajasekar (b. 1996), Akshaya Avril Tucker (b. 1992), Paul Lovatt-Cooper (b. 1976), Akira Senju (b. 1960), Michiru Oshima (b. 1961), Leszek Kułakowski (b. 1955), Gwilym Simcock (b. 1981), Nicky Sohn (b. 1992), Masaru Yokoyama (b. 1982), Mikel Urquiza (b. 1988), Kenneth Fuchs (b. 1956), Carl Vine (b. 1954), Matthew Hindson (b. 1968), David Biedenbender (b. 1984), Alex Shapiro (b. 1962), Nina C. Young (b. 1984), Wilhelm Stenhammar (b. 1871), Vince Mendoza (b. 1961), Claus Ogerman (b. 1930), Anders Hillborg (b. 1954), Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943), Jasdeep Singh Degun (b. 1991), Arvydas Malcys (b. 1957), Camargo Guarnieri (b. 1907), Pancho Vladigerov (b. 1899), Zita Burzaite (b. 1966), Loreta Narvilaite (b. 1965), Michael Colgrass (b. 1932), Algirdas Martinaitis (b. 1950), Nancy Bloomer Deussen (b. 1931), Donald Grantham (b. 1947), Chitravina N. Ravikiran (b. 1967), Nicolas Bacri (b. 1961), Alma Deutscher (b. 2005), Keiichi Okabe (b. 1969), Louise Farrenc (b. 1804), Vladimir Godar (b. 1956), Nikolai Myaskovsky (b. 1881), John Musto (b. 1954), Tobias Picker (b. 1954), Donnacha Dennehy (b. 1970), Mary Ellen Childs (b. 1957), Lee Actor (b. 1952), Emmanuel Sejourne (b. 1961), Carter Pann (b. 1972), Rolf Martinsson (b. 1956), Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937), Will Todd (b. 1970), Nimrod Borenstein (b. 1969), Paul Moravec (b. 1957), Lam Bun-Ching (b. 1954), Huang Ruo (b. 1976), Behzad Ranjbaran (b. 1955), David Conte (b. 1955), Libby Larsen (b. 1950), Daron Hagen (b. 1961), Tonu Korvits (b. 1969), Minoru Miki (b. 1930), Param Vir (b. 1952), Sean O’Boyle (b. 1963), Reza Vali (b. 1952), Derek Bourgeois (b. 1941), Olivia Belli (b. 1980?), Aaron Robinson (b. 1970), David Thomas Roberts (b. 1955), David Rakowski (b. 1958), Nigel Clarke (b. 1960), Huw Watkins (b. 1976), Justin Dello Joio (b. 1955), Cindy McTee (b. 1953), Philip Lasser (b. 1963), Michael Kurek (b. 1955), Kimmo Hakola (b. 1958), Mikko Heinio (b. 1948), Lasse Thoresen (b. 1949), Howard Skempton (b. 1947), Sally Beamish (b. 1956), Thierry Escaich (b. 1965), Stale Kleiberg (b. 1958), David Matthews (b. 1943), Jan Sandstrom (b. 1954), Aulis Sallinen (b. 1935), Narong Prangcharoen (b. 1973), Arturs Maskats (b. 1967), Albert Guinovart (b. 1962), Daisuke Shimizu (b. 1980), Myroslav Skoryk (b. 1938).

Rediscovered or revisited, and really liked:

I also listened to a significant portion of the recorded works by each of the (not new-to-me) composers listed below.2 My favorites pieces from them (names linked to playlists) were:

  • John Powell (b. 1963): Chicken Run (2000), some of Evolution (2001), “Tangiers” (2007), “This is Berk” (2010), some of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), “Meet Han” (2018), How to Train Your Dragon Suite (2020), some of How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
  • Jon Lord (b. 1941): Concerto for Group and Orchestra mvt 3 (1969), Gemini Suite “Guitar” (1970), Sarabande “Sarabande” & “Bouree” (1975)
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu (b. 1953): Saxophone Concerto “Cyber-bird” mvts 1 & 3 (1994)
  • Ramin Djawadi (b. 1974): Game of Thrones “Main Title” & “Finale” (2011), Westworld “Main Title” (2016)
  • Astor Piazzolla (b. 1921): “Introducción al Ángel” (1962), María de Buenos Aires “Tangata del Alba” (1968), “Libertango” (1974)
  • James Newton Howard (b. 1951): Dinosaur “The Egg Travels” & “Across the Desert” (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire “The Submarine” & “The Crystal Chamber” & “Just Do It” (2001), Peter Pan “Flying” & “Flying Jolly Roger” (2003), Batman Begins “Molossus” (2005), Blood Diamond “Crossing the Bridge” (2006), Fantastic Beasts… “Main Titles” & “Newt Says Goodbye to Tina / Jacob’s Bakery” (2016), Raya and the Last Dragon “Running on Raindrops” (2021)
  • Jeremy Soule (b. 1975): Supreme Commander “An Old Idea Made New” (2007), Skyrim “Dragonborn” & “From Past to Present” & “One They Fear” (2011)
  • Gareth Coker (b. 1984): Ori and the Blind Forest (2015), “The Mean Greens” (2015), some of Minecraft: Battle & Tumble (2016), Minecraft: Chinese Mythology (2016), ARK (2017), Minecraft: Norse Mythology (2017), Minecraft: Egyptian Mythology (2018), Minecraft: Pirates of the Caribbean “Overworld 4” (2018), Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2020), Immortals Fenyx Rising “Heart of the Hero” (2020), Darksiders Genesis (2023)
    • With these new and old listens, Coker has crossed the 5-hour mark as one of my favorite musical artists!
  • Jerry Goldsmith (b. 1929): The Russia House “The Family Arrives” (1990), some of The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
  • Harry Gregson-Williams (b. 1961): “Fairytale” (2001), “A Narnia Lullaby” (2005)
  • Erich Korngold (b. 1897): Kings Row “Main Theme” & “Children” (1942)
  • Yoko Shimomura (b. 1967): some of Final Fantasy XV (2016), “Swingin’ Free” (2019), Symphonic Suite: The Worlds of Tres mvt 1 (2019), plus orchestral adaptations of “The Bird Flies…” (1994), “Destati” (2002), “Fate of the Unknown” (2005), “Daybreak of Town” (2013), “Wave of Darkness” (2017)
  • Malcolm Arnold (b. 1921): English Dances, Set 1 Nos. 1, 2, 4 (1950), English Dances, Set 2 Nos. 1, 2, 4 (1951), Four Scottish Dances (1957)
  • Nobuo Uematsu (b. 1959): Final Fantasy Concerto mvt 3 (2011), plus orchestral adaptations of “Prelude” & “Final Fantasy Main Theme” (1987), “Eternal Wind” & “Legend of the Eternal Wind” (1990), “Battle with the Four Fiends” & “Final Fantasy IV Main Theme” (1991), “Clash on the Big Bridge” (1992), “Terra’s Theme” & “Balance is Restored” & “Searching for Fiends” (1994), “Final Fantasy VII Main Theme” & “Jenova” & “Cosmo Canyon” & “One-Winged Angel” & “Those Chosen by the Planet” (1997), “Liberi Fatali” & “Don’t Be Afraid” & “The Man with the Machine Gun” (1999), “Prima Vista Orchestra” & “Festival of the Hunt” & “Vamo’ alla Flamenco” (2000), “Ronafaure” & “Sword Song, Battle Medley” (2002), “Battle Medley 2012” (2012)
  • Koji Kondo (b. 1961): “Band Performance” & “Bowser’s Castle” (2017), plus orchestral adaptations of some Super Mario Bros. themes (1985), some Legend of Zelda themes (1986), “Palace Theme” (1987), some Super Mario Bros. 2 themes (1988), some Super Mario World themes (1990), “Dark World” (1991), some Super Mario 64 themes (1996), some Ocarina of Time themes (1998), some Super Mario Sunshine themes (2002), “Gusty Garden Galaxy” (2007), “New Super Mario Bros. Wii theme” (2009), some A Link Between Worlds themes (2013)3
  • Julius Fučík (b. 1872): “Entrance of the Gladiators” (1897)
  • Jacques Offenbach (b. 1819): “Can-Can” (1858), “Barcarolle” (1864)
  • Bear McCreary (b. 1979): Three Pieces for Trio (2006), some of Da Vinci’s Demons (2013), Outlander “Clean Pease Strae” & “The Marriage Contract” (2015), The Walking Dead “Theme” & “The Day Will Come” (2017)
  • Ludwig Göransson (b. 1984): Oppenheimer “Can You Hear the Music” (2023)
  • Alan Silvestri (b. 1950): “Back to the Future” (1985), “I’m Forrest… Forrest Gump” (1994)
  • Christopher Larkin (b. 1988?): Barbecue (2017), some of Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025)
  • John Psathas (b. 1966): Omnifenix (2000), View from Olympus mvt 3 (2002), The New Zeibekiko “Bacchic” & “Maenads” (2010), Voices at the End “Predator” & “Chrysalis” (2018), Koolish Zein mvt 3 (2019), Leviathan mvt 4 (2021), Orbital (2021), Call of the Wild mvts 1 & 3 (2021), The All-Seeing Eye (2022), Ahlan wa Sahlan “Hijra” & “Achalino” (2023)
  • Simeon ten Holt (b. 1923): Canto Ostinato (1975), Palimpsest (1992)
  • John Rutter (b. 1945): The Beatles Concerto (1977)
  • John Barry (b. 1933): “James Bond Theme” (1962)
  • Bill Whelan (b. 1950): The Road to La Coruna” (1992), some of Riverdance (1995/2019), “Emerald Tiger” (2004), some of Riverdance: A Symphonic Suite (2012)
  • Rachel Portman (b. 1960): The Cider House Rules “Main Titles” & “End Credits” (1999), Mona Lisa Smile “End Credits” (2003)
  • Kurt Weill (b. 1900): “Mack the Knife” (1928), some of Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (1929)
  • Ravi Shankar (b. 1920): Sitar Concerto No. 1 mvt 3 (1971), Symphony mvts 1, 3, 4 (2010)
  • John Debney (b. 1956): The Passion of the Christ (2003)
  • Clint Mansell (b. 1963): “Lux Aeterna” (2000), “Tree of Life” & “Death Is the Road to Awe” (2006)
  • Inon Zur (b. 1965): some of Eagle Flight (2016)
  • Patrick Williams (b. 1939): An American Concerto mvts 1, 3 (1976), “A Bird from Missouri” (2002)
  • Grant Kirkhope (b. 1962): Banjo-Kazooie (1998), “Jinjo Village” (2000), “Island Welcome” & “Oven-Fresh Day” (2006), Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (2008), “Kirkfeld” (2012), some of Yooka Replaylee (2025)
  • Emile Mosseri (b. 1985): The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), Kajillionaire (2020), Homecoming (2020), Minari (2021)
  • Bela Fleck (b. 1958): The Melody of Rhythm mvts 1, 3 (2006), Juno Concerto mvt 3 (2016), some of My Bluegrass Heart (2021)
  • John Tavener (b. 1944): “Funeral Canticle” (1996)
  • Emile Waldteufel (b. 1837): “The Skater’s Waltz” (1882)
  • John Murphy (b. 1965): “Adagio in D Minor” (2007)
  • Sarah Kirkland Snider (b. 1973): Unremembered “The Barn” (2015)
  • Shirley Walker (b. 1945): Batman: The Animated Series “Alternate Main Title” (1992), Batman: Mask of the Phantasm “Main Title” (1993), Superman: The Animated Series “Main Title” (1996), The New Batman / Superman Adventures “Main Title” (1997)
  • Carl Davis (b. 1936): some of Ben-Hur (1986), “Patapan and Cornhill Slide” (1992), “The Power of the Lamp” (1999), “Walking in the Park with Eloise” (2016), some of The Great Gatsby (2019)
  • Gavin Bryars (b. 1943): “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet” [full strings version] (1971)
  • Plus the following composers for which I didn’t “strongly like” any of their pieces I listened to: Graham Fitkin (b. 1963), Patrick Doyle (b. 1953), Austin Wintory (b. 1984), Michael Giacchino (b. 1967), Bohuslav Martinu (b. 1890), Leonard Bernstein (b. 1918), Eduard Tubin (b. 1905), Lorne Balfe (b. 1976), Stephen Barton (b. 1982), Alan Hovhaness (b. 1911), Bright Sheng (b. 1955), Alexandre Desplat (b. 1961), William Bolcom (b. 1938), Ryuichi Sakamoto (b. 1952), Chen Yi (b. 1953), Zhou Long (b. 1953), Jóhann Jóhannsson (b. 1969), Gabriel Prokofiev (b. 1975), Peteris Vasks (b. 1946), Kevin Volans (b. 1949), Luis Bacalov (b. 1933), Andre Previn (b. 1929), William Duckworth (b. 1943), Lou Harrison (b. 1937), Uri Caine (b. 1956), Peter Schickele (b. 1935).

Movies/TV

Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):

  • Zach Cregger: Weapons (2025) ★
  • Michael Angelo Covino: Splitsville (2025) ★
  • Various: What We Do in the Shadows, season 3-6 (2021-2024) ★
  • Wes Ball: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
  • Various: Documentary Now! seasons 1-3 (2015-2019)
  • Various: The Chair Company, season 1 (2025)
  • Various: Stath Lets Flats, seasons 1-3 (2018-2021) ★
  • Merlin Crossingham & Nick Park: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
  • Clint Bentley: Train Dreams (2025)
  • Various: Pluribus, season 1 (2025) ★
  • Rian Johnson: Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
  • James Cameron: Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Games

All games I finished or decided to stop playing:

  • [none]

Standup comedy

  • Dan Cummins: Revenge is Near (2009), Get Outta Here Devil (2020), ★Live in Denver (2020), Trying to Get Better (2023)
  • Josh Johnson: I Like You (2017)
  • Nikki Glaser: Perfect (2016), Bangin’ (2019), Good Clean Filth (2022)
  • Tom Papa: Calm, Cool, and Collected (2005), Live in New York City (2010), Freaked Out (2013)
  • Anthony Jeselnik: Thoughts and Prayers (2016), Fire in the Maternity Ward (2019), Bones and All (2024)
  • Louis C.K.: ★One Night Stand (2005)
  • Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis (2020), Look at You (2022), Have It All (2024)
  • Brian Regan: All By Myself (2010)
  • Patton Oswalt: My Weakness is Strong (2009), Talking for Clapping (2017), Annihilation (2018) I Love Everything (2020), We All Scream (2025)
  • Julia Sweeney: Letting Go of God (2006)
  • Dave Chappelle: Killin’ Them Softly (2000), Equanimity (2017), Sticks & Stones (2019)
  • Ricky Gervais: Animals (2003), Armageddon (2023)
  • Shane Gillis: Live in Austin (2021), ★Beautiful Dogs (2024)
  • Jim Jefferies: Contraband (2008), Alcoholocaust (2010), Fully Functional (2012), Bare (2014), Freedumb (2016), This Is Me Now (2018)
  • John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid (2017), Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018)
  • Bill Burr: Why Do I Do This (2008), You People Are All the Same (2012), I’m Sorry You Feel That Way (2014), Paper Tiger (2019), Live at Red Rocks (2022), Drop Dead Years (2025)
  • Nate Bargatze: ★Full Time Magic (2015), Hello World! (2023)
  • Jimmy Carr: Comedian (2007)
  • Jimmy O. Yang: Guess How Much? (2023)
  • Mark Normand: Don’t Be Yourself (2017)
  • Sam Morril: Positive Influence (2017), You’ve Changed (2024), Same Time Tomorrow (2024)
  • Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady (2018)
  • Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (2017)
  • Ari Shaffer: ★Jew (2023)
  • Kurt Metzger: Talks to Young People About Sex (2011), White Precious (2014)
  • Chad Daniels: You’re the Best (2012), Natural Selection (2014)
  • Danny Jolles: Six Parts (2021)
  • Dustin Nickerson: Overwhelmed (2021), Runs in the Family (2023)
  • Gus Tate: Top Gus (2023)
  • Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo (2015)

Books

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  1. The pieces I listened to for each composer were: Mozetich, Westlake (plus a few of his film scores), Kats-Chernin (plus a few of her film scores), Sculthorpe, Davies, Farr, Ye, Panufnik, Shor, Wiseman (plus several of her film scores), Hess (plus some of his TV music), Goodall, Holdridge (plus several of his film/TV scores), Frank, Mason, Simon, Lu, Gregson, Jia Daqun, Iannaccone, Kashif (plus some of his film, TV, and production music work), Keary, Wang Danhong, Han, Zheng, Zhang, Jia Guoping, Curiale, Brossé (plus a few of his film/TV scores), Reineke, Zhou Xianglin, Shi, Weng, Wen, Wang Tianming, Jiang, Zhao (plus a couple of his film scores), Perruchon (plus a couple of his film scores), Chris Brubeck, Louie, Gilliland, Dove, Assad, Bryant, Dorff, Roost, Yagisawa, Sankaram, Pal, Burge, Holsinger, Graham, Doss, Ellerby, Ferran, Waespi, Putz, Edmunds, Moussa, Sokolovic, Morlock, Nobles, Wijeratne, Wallen, Sumino, Current, Bell, Hatzis, Gougeon, Tovey, Chan, Morawetz, Hartke, Aldridge, Lieberson, Tsontakis, Gillingham, Hazo, Balmages, Grainger, Gould, Kabalevsky, Françaix, Nelson, Ewazen, Klami, Tcherepnin, Still, Ginastera, Chavez, Revueltas, Giannini, several videogame soundtracks (and orchestral adaptations of them) by Mitsuda, Kodály, several videogame soundtracks (and orchestral adaptations of them) by Sakimoto, Turina, Moncayo, Sarasate, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Suppe, Coates, Sviridov, Amirov, Ifukube, Atterberg, Ketèlbey, Minkus, Melartin, Svendsen, Garayev, Erkin, Giroux, Binge, Farnon, Wood, Drigo, Alwyn (plus Film Music of William Alwyn, Vols. 1-4), Massenet, Reed, Barnes, Röntgen, Tveitt, Adam, Bortkiewicz, Ponce, several film/TV scores by Call, Melillo, Bunch, Galante, Zyman, Esmail, Rahman (plus many film scores), He, Tanzil, Pepin, Mehmari, Bao, Du, Hamauzu (plus several videogame scores, and orchestral adaptations from them), Eisenga, Koehne, Paulus, Sawano (plus several film/TV scores), various film/TV scores by Kajiura, a few film/TV scores by Gold, Montgomery, Edwards, Brotons, Akiho, Scharwenka, Haan, Camilo (plus several of his jazz albums), Koppel, many videogame scores by Soken (and some orchestral adaptations from them), Rosenblatt, Gottschalk, Forrest, Lehár, Kanno (plus several film/TV/videogame soundtracks), Wild, several film/TV/videogame scores by Sagisu, Lloyd, Susman (plus a few film scores), Sawhney (plus several of his film/TV scores), Greenbaum, Schoenfield, Weir, Gehlert, Barton, Gandolfi, Cuong, Dooley, Markowski, Wilson, López, Tansman, Gorb, Guan, Liu, Wu, Leung (plus a few film scores), Chen Yu-Peng (plus some film/TV/videogame scores), Taktakishvili, Ding, several TV/film scores by Roc Chen, Yu, Tang, Granados, Pierné, Creston, Kruger (plus some of his less “classical” albums), Lacoste-Lebuis (plus several videogame scores), Ibert, Hummel, Cardelús (plus several film scores), Ries, Tyāgayya, Kalhor, Shchedrin, Tsfasman, Bermel, McKinley, Zavod, Wolking, Molinelli, Meza, Burgess, Johnson, Künneke, Robinovitch, Hsiao, Southam, a few videogame scores by Díaz, a few videogame scores by Curry, several videogame scores by Graves, Raykhelson, Dankworth, Gottfried, Amrod, Hartway, Peña, Polovinkin, Saint-James, Konig, Knudson, Newman, Dorsam, Schmidtke, Pierné, Broughton (plus several film/TV/videogame scores), Lecuona, D’Rivera, Marchal, Howard Brubeck, Goodwin, Kimura, Volanti, Toussaint, Solal, Farberman, Bellinati, Infanzon, Arias, Flynn, Davey (plus a few film/TV scores), Martin, O’Connor, Ó Súilleabháin, Adolfo Navarro, Siccardi, Meyer, Wiancko, Nishiki, Hilli, Sollima, Bryan, Schneidemesser (plus a few film/videogame scores), several film/TV/videogame scores by Furukawa, Klebe (plus several film/TV scores), Makhal, Hussain, Rajasekar, Tucker, Lovatt-Cooper, Shea (plus several film/TV scores), Senju, Oshima (plus several film/TV scores), Schnyder (plus a couple of his more jazzy albums), Kułakowski (plus a few of his more jazzy albums), Simcock, Garland (plus a few of his more jazz albums),  Sohn, a few TV scores by Yokoyama, Urquiza, Fuchs, Vine, Hindson, Biedenbender, Shapiro, Young, Stenhammar, Mendoza, Sebesky, Ogerman, Hillborg, Schwantner, Herting (plus a few of his jazz albums), Degun, Malcys, Guarnieri, Vladigerov, Burzaite, Narvilaite, Colgrass, Martinaitis, Deussen, Grantham, Ravikiran, Boissier, Bacri, Ichmouratov, a few videogame scores by Okabe, Farrenc, Godar, Myaskovsky, Gillis, Musto, Picker, Dennehy, Childs, Pelecis, Actor, Sejourne, Pann, Karmanov, Martinsson, Silvestrov, Todd, Mansurian, Borenstein, Moravec, Lam, Huang, Ranjbaran, Conte, Larsen, Hagen, Korvits, Miki, Vir, O’Boyle, Vali, Bourgeois, Belli, Bosso, Robinson, Roberts, Rakowski, Clarke, Watkins, Dello Joio, McTee, Lasser, Kurek, Tawadros, Hakola, Heinio, Thoresen, Skempton, Beamish, Escaich, Kleiberg, Matthews, Ritchie, Oscar Navarro (plus a few film scores), Sandstrom, Sallinen, Prangcharoen, Maskats, Kaska (plus a couple film/TV scores), Guinovart, Shimizu, Skoryk. [↩]
  2. The pieces I listened to for each composer were: Fitkin, Powell (plus many of his film scores), Lord, Yoshimatsu, Doyle (plus many of his film scores), several film/TV scores by Djawadi, Piazzolla, several videogame scores by Wintory, Howard (plus many film scores), Giacchino (plus many film scores), Martinu, several videogame scores by Soule, several videogame scores by Coker, Bernstein, Tubin, Goldsmith (plus many of his film scores), Gregson-Williams (plus many of his film/TV/videogame scores), Korngold (plus several of his film scores), several videogame soundtracks (and orchestral adaptations of them) by Shimomura, several film/videogame scores by Balfe, several TV/videogame scores by Barton, Arnold (plus a few of his film scores), Hovhaness, Uematsu (plus several of his videogame scores, and many albums of orchestral adaptations of his videogame scores), Fučík, Offenbach, Sheng, McCreary (plus several film/TV/videogame scores), Desplat (plus many film scores), several film scores by Göransson, seveal film scores by Silvestri, albums of many genres by Sakamoto, Chen, several film/TV/videogame scores by Larkin, Zhou, Psathas, ten Holt, Jóhannsson (plus several film scores), Rutter, Barry (plus many film scores), Whelan, Portman (plus several film/TV scores), Weill, Shankar, Debney (plus several film scores), several film scores by Mansell, several videogame scores by Zur, Williams, Kirkhope (plus several videogame scores), a few film/TV scores by Mosseri, Fleck (plus several of his more bluegrass/jazz albums), Prokofiev, Vasks, Snider, Volans, Tavener, Waldteufel, several film/TV scores by Murphy, Bacalov, several film/TV scores by Walker, Previn (plus a few film scores), Carl Davis (plus a few of his film scores), Duckworth, Harrison, Caine, Schickele, Bryars. [↩]
  3. I like a lot more Kondo music than this, but I haven’t been able to find high-quality orchestral recordings for most of it, and the original chiptune/synth versions don’t sound great on their own. [↩]