The Way Is Read, an album by the English trio The Staves and NYC-based ensemble yMusic, released digitally last week, is now available on limited-edition vinyl. "Developed from a live collaboration," says a four-star review in the Evening Standard, "the siblings' voices are blended seamlessly with the instrumentation on haunting, experimental compositions where folk and contemporary classical meet halfway." The Sunday Times of London calls it "wonderful." 

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of her Grammy-winning, critically acclaimed album Ingénue, k.d. lang has announced a nineteen-city concert tour that will bring a live performance of the platinum-selling record to venues across the US. Fans in cities such as Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Denver, Minneapolis, Boston, and NYC can experience the album live, performed in its entirety. The tour follows the release of a re-mastered, two-disc Anniversary Edition of Ingénue on Nonesuch earlier this year. 

Eric Salzman, the American composer, producer, music critic, and author, has died at the age of 84. Salzman was an important figure in the first decades of Nonesuch Records under the leadership of Tracey Sterne. His pieces The Nude Paper Sermon and Civilization and Its Discontents: A Musical Theater Comedy, both composed with Michael Sahl, were recorded for Nonesuch in the 1970s. Also for the label, Salzman produced Teresa Stratas's The Unknown Kurt Weill; the New York City Opera recording of Weill's Silverlake; and the three albums of The Tango Project.

Rostam gives his take on The Pogues' classic holiday tune "Fairytale of New York" in a new Spotify Singles holiday release. Fittingly, he recorded the song at Spotify Studios in NYC. You can hear the track here. Rostam's Half-Light tour returns to North America in January. 

Congratulations to Offa Rex, Randy Newman, and the Metropolitan Opera on their Grammy Award nominations: The Queen of Hearts (Best Folk Album), "Putin" (Best Arrangement), and Berg's Lulu (Best Opera Recording), respectively. The 60th Grammy Awards will take place at NYC's Madison Square Garden on Sunday, January 28, 2018, broadcast live on CBS.

Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold and Casey Wescott stopped by BBC Radio 6 Music to perform "If You Need To, Keep Time on Me," from their album Crack-Up on the Lauren Laverne show. Pecknold spoke with Laverne about the album and the ongoing tour and gave a solo take on the Jimmy Webb (via Nina Simone) song "Do What You Gotta Do." You can hear the set here. The European tour continues through next week. The band will tour Australia, New Zealand, and Asia in December and January.

With more than a month to go before 2017 comes to a close, the UK music magazines have begun to weigh in on the year's best music. Uncut, Mojo, and Q have all published their lists of the Best Albums of the Year, and included among them are a number of Nonesuch releases: the latest albums from Fleet Foxes, Rhiannon Giddens, Randy Newman, Robert Plant, The Magnetic Fields, and Offa Rex.

Jeremy Denk was on WNYC's Leonard Lopate show. Denk, whom Lopate calls "one of America's foremost pianists," talks about his career in music and writing ahead of a solo recital at 92Y in NYC on December 9. On the Leonard Lopate show, he performs works by Byrd and Mozart live. You can hear the conversation and performance on the show here.

Chris Thile recently released the song "Elephant in the Room," from his forthcoming album, Thanks for Listening. Now, just in time for Thanksgiving, you can read the full text of the lyrics, which may inspire some topics of conversation around the dinner table this holiday.

The Staves and yMusic, whose new album, The Way Is Read, is due digitally on November 24 and on vinyl December 1, have released a third track from the album, "Silent Side." You can hear it here and download it now, along with the previously released album tracks "Trouble on My Mind" and "The Way Is Read" when you pre-order the album.

Rhiannon Giddens begins a tour of the UK and Ireland with music from her new album, Freedom Highway, at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London tonight. The tour continues with concerts in Bristol, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Pocklington, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, and Gateshead. She joins Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne in France in December.

Robert Plant and his band the Sensational Space Shifters begin a month-long, sold-out tour of the UK, with music from his new album, Carry Fire, at Plymouth Pavilions tonight, followed by shows across England, Scotland, and Wales, including London’s Royal Albert Hall. Plant and the band tour North America starting in February and Australia in March.