Dusty Chalk

Listened to a wide variety of Chopin's Preludes. Got a little...uh...feverish...towards the late afternoon.

Alice Sara Ott, Echoes of Life -- largely Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28, interspersed here and there with other short pieces. That album cover hurts my eyes, though. EDIT: Oh, wow, she (Ott) wrote a piece on this one, albeit based on fragments of Mozart's Lacrimosa.

Stumbled across another option for you (potentially -- I don't know all your requirements): Roland Rubix 44 or 22.

More Hiromi -- dang I love (and low-key miss) her use of synthesizers:

Happy birthday, Todd! I hope you have a superblime day. (party favour noise)

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Hiromi Uehara, Spectrum solo jazz piano, I forgot how great this one in particular is. E.G., This is just so insanely great! I should also mention that it appears her entire back catalog (including personal favourites, Time Control, Brain, &c.) has been uploaded to streaming platforms Tidal and Spotify, so...yay!

Yeah, that's all I ask any more, I don't have a favourite of anything any more (other than maybe for Schubert's 2nd Piano Trio), so just ask after worthy performances. Thanks, will give it a listen!

Particularly good? Those are two of my favourite violin concertos (with the Mendelssohn), so I already have several favourite performances, won't bother unless you say it's worth listening. Me: Susumu Hirasawa's Beacon, first release in several years! https://digital.susumuhirasawa.com/album/beacon

RIP Dusty Hill

Happy birthday, amigo! (party favour noise)

Brian Eno, Small Craft on a Milk Sea -- pacific ambient example:

Knucks introduced me to my new favourite obsession last night: Border 50 by Master Margherita. It's dubby, and downtempo, and super chill with an absolutely glacial pace. I skimmed through the first track of a couple of other of his albums, and none of them are like this one, but the rest of the tracks on this one are of a similar ilk as the one track he played, so I will be adding this album to my studying playlist.

Not sure what your threshold is, but if you like your prog borderline avant, I highly recommend Wax People (recent EP release) and All Traps on Earth (several year old album -- kinda Zeuhl, vaguely jazzy (in the same way that A Passion Play is vaguely jazzy), mostly instrumental symphonic prog, very great). Me:

FYI for fans of this album: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/trout-mask-replica-captain-beefheart-streaming-1193345/ Me, listening to study music while studying (it's kind of slapdash, intended to be listened to on random, as there's some repetition which I haven't bothered separating out:

Egad, I think the church had fewer rifts.

That's really great!

The sophomore album from progressive rock band, OSI (largely Kevin Moore from Dream Theater's early work and Chroma Key on keys and vocals, and guitarist Jim Matheos from Fates Warning), Free got released to streaming, and since I can't find my CD copy, I'm listening to it now, after which I will return to my regularly scheduled study music. Example:

Wait, those are two completely different things. Motu M4 is a 4x4 interface, the dbx 286s is a channel strip. What is it you need, again?

Now listening to the original:

Looks scrumptious! Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Example: Oh, dang, I can't insert an mp3. Okay, but it takes zip, so let's see if this works chipmunks cover glass - koyaanisqatsi.zip