Nonesuch Records wishes everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving in the United States and a fruitful Black Friday in the days ahead. (Not to mention a very Happy Birthday to Randy Newman on said Friday.) Remember: everything out now on the site—CDs, LPs, DVDs, MP3s, FLAC—is 15% off our everyday low prices (pre-orders excluded) as part of the Nonesuch Store's seventh anniversary sale, now through the holidays. Of course, the focus for the holiday is on family, and while the Nonesuch staff is spending time with ours, there are a few concerts in the coming days to keep in mind as you're enjoying yours as well.

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John Adams’s oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary receives further performances by the English National Opera (ENO), directed by Peter Sellars, at the London Coliseum on Thursday and Saturday. The new production, which the Independent calls “a magnificent and suitably impassioned creation” and the Financial Times says is “heart-wrenching musical experience,” receives two additional performances through December 5. The Guardian lauds “Adams’s immensely powerful score.”

Adams’s Saxophone Concerto is performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Timothy McAllister (for whom the Concerto was written and who performs piece on its debut recording, released earlier this year on Nonesuch) at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Thursday. The program, aptly titled “Sax in the City,” is bookended by Gershwin’s An American in Paris (the composer’s own 1933 performance of which was released 60 years later on Nonesuch’s Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls) and Strauss’s Symphonia Domestica.

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Sam Amidon has three dates in Spain this holiday weekend: a free show at Antigua Fàbrica Damm in Barcelona tonight; La Lata de Bombillas in Zaragoza on Thursday; and the Garoa Kultur Lab in San Sebastián on Friday. He then heads to France to close out the current European tour at Badaboum in Paris on Sunday.

“Mr. Amidon reaches into the dark depths of American traditional music and pulls out 10 songs of entrancing, often disturbing beauty,” writes the New York Observer of his new album, Lily-O, recently released on Nonesuch Records. “Mr. Amidon approaches folk like a jazz improviser, taking a tune from here, borrowing a lyric from there, and reframing them all with his own surprising chord progressions and arrangements.” You can read the full article at obsever.com.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk joins the San Francisco Symphony for performances of Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. The program, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, also features Griffes’s The White Peacock and Brahms’s Symphony No. 2.

Denk next returns home to give the New York premiere of the piece The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)—with libretto by Denk and music by Steven Stucky—at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on December 4.

Reviewing his recent New York City performance at the 92nd Street Y, the New York Times writes: “Mr. Denk is no ordinary pianist. He plays by different rules—someone has to—by aiming not for simple control or technical wizardry but for the most direct and personal expression.” Read the full review at nytimes.com.

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Pianist Tigran Hamasyan, whose Nonesuch Records debut album, Mockroot, is due out in January, continues his European fall tour with three dates in France this weekend: at Le Quartz in Brest tonight; Le Carré Magique in Lannion on Friday; and the Théâtre des Cornouailles in Quimper on Saturday. The tour makes a quick stop in Moscow before culminating in Paris on December 4. Mockroot is available to pre-order in the Nonesuch Store now.

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Pat Metheny Unity Group—with Chris Potter, Antonio Sanchez, Ben Williams, and Giulio Carmassi—gives a free set at the Riviera Maya Jazz Festival at Mamita’s Beach Club in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on Friday. The band then returns to the States to close out a year-long, worldwide tour in support of its Nonesuch debut album, Kin (←→), with a week-long residency at the Blue Note in New York City starting December 2.

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Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters conclude their 13-city sold-out tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland at Tower Ballroom in Blackpool tonight and Venue Cymru Arena in Llandudno on Thursday. The Belfast Telegraph describes their recent performance there as “an intoxicating sonic stew.” It continues: “his recent work is that of a man still consumed by the creative muse, drawing on blues, Americana, West African traditional music and electronica.” The Irish Independent says Plant "blows the roof of the place."

Plant recently sat down with The Quietus to discuss his new album, lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar, which the site calls “his most fully realized solo album to date ... a superb melting pot of influences,” and so much more. Read what Plant has to say at thequietus.com.