Listen to songs from a few of the new releases from the last couple of weeks.

Green Gartside of Scritti Politti was on WNYC's Soundcheck today. Listen to the live performance and interview with John Schaefer at wnyc.org. Scritti Politti's upcoming album, White Bread Black Beer, was nominated for a Mercury prize in the UK. Other nominees include Thom Yorke and Arctic Monkeys.

By Glenn Kotche
Glenn Kotche offers a first-person account of his 12 hours at the 2006 Bang on a Can Marathon in New York City.

Two new records featuring Brad Mehldau's compositions are out today: House on Hill, the final recording from his long-time trio with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossi and Love Sublime, which comprises songs Mehldau wrote specifically for Renee Fleming. The New York Times calls House on Hill "a marvel of collective self-assurance, worth hearing not only for Mr. Rossy's weightless time feel but also for Mr. Mehldau's thoughtful compositions," and says Love Sublime is "thoughtful too, sometimes achingly so."

By David Byrne
"There are those who mourn the vanishing of the nice big cardboard packages that vinyl came in," writes David Byrne. "The usual assumption is that much of this imagery, like music videos, is a reflection of, and extension of, the music creator’s sensibility. As if the packaging and the videos were usually under the direct control of the author. This is absurd."

By Robert Hurwitz
Henryk Górecki's Third Symphony was recorded in one day, 15 years ago last month. Here is Nonesuch President Bob Hurwitz's journal entry from that day.

Adam Guettel's six-time Tony Award-winning show The Light in the Piazza will be broadcast live on PBS's Live from Lincoln Center tomorrow night, Thursday June 15. Nonesuch released the show's cast album in 2005.

Nonesuch released the Broadway cast album of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd earlier this year. The show has been nominated for six Tony Awards. Tune into CBS's Early Show on June 10 to hear cast member Manoel Feliciano perform "Not While I'm Around." The entire cast will perform during the Tony broadcast on CBS Sunday, June 11 at 8 PM.

By Robert Hurwitz
Is it possible for a great talent to go unnoticed in music? That's a question posed by Nonesuch Records President Robert Hurwitz in an essay for the Nonesuch Journal.

Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts came out in 1981. It has now been re-issued in a new package, with extensive liner notes and photos, featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks from the original album and a film by influential artist Bruce Conner.

By David Bither
The work of Nonesuch Explorer Series producer David Lewiston was recently featured at a symposium on the future of Tibetan music at the Rubin Museum in New York. Nonesuch Records' Senior Vice President David Bither moderated the panel and introduced Lewiston; here are his remarks.

By David Harrington of Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet's founder and artistic director David Harrington shares a baker's dozen's worth of things he's listening to now. It's an expectedly eclectic list, to say the least.