As part of the year-long celebration of Nonesuch Records' 60th anniversary, Kronos Quartet founder, artistic director, and violinist David Harrington joins the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists stop by the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. Harrington stopped by and chose recordings by Carlos Paredes, Dumisani Abraham Maraire, Astor Piazzolla, and Steve Reich.

Kronos Quartet performs "Beebopterismo," from Terry Riley's Sun Rings, which was commissioned in part by the NASA Art Program and includes plasma waves recorded from NASA spacecraft, including the Voyager 1 and 2 probes. The video, edited by Robert Edridge-Waks, features footage from Willie Williams' visual design for the staged multimedia production of the piece, which has been performed by Kronos nearly fifty times in eleven countries and eighteen states.

Explore the story behind Steve Reich's Different Trains. The groundbreaking work, written for Kronos Quartet and first recorded on Nonesuch, was declared by the New York Times as "a work of such originality that 'breakthrough' seems the only possible description." Pitchfork called it a "late-career masterpiece" and placed the album among the 200 Best of the 1980s. Video by Robert Edridge-Waks. Excerpts from Steve Reich interview courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes, boosey.com

Here is the video for "CNN Predicts a Monster Storm," the opening track to Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet's 2018 album Landfall.

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet's "The Water Rises" and "Our Street Is a Black River" from the 2018 album Landfall.

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet's "We Learn to Speak Yet Another Language" from the 2018 album Landfall.

Here is a quick look at Kronos Quartet's new album, Folk Songs, with Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant.

Released in honor of composer Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, One Earth, One People, One Love: Kronos Plays Terry Riley, a five-disc box set of albums of his work composed for, and performed by, his longtime friends and champions Kronos Quartet, includes three albums previously released by Nonesuch—Salome Dances for Peace (two discs), Requiem for Adam, and The Cusp of Magic—as well as a new disc called Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector, which includes a new recording of the title piece.