Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet join forces once again to perform their first-ever collaboration, Landfall, at the Cité de la Musique Concert Hall at the Philharmonie in Paris on Saturday and Sunday. The piece, inspired by Anderson’s experience of Hurricane Sandy in New York City, juxtaposes lush electronics and traditional strings by Kronos with Anderson’s powerful descriptions of loss, from water-logged pianos to disappearing animal species to Dutch karaoke bars. Dense projected texts, triggered musically via software developed for the work, overlay and compound Anderson’s tales, leaving a polyphony of meanings to percolate in the vivid wake of the storm.

Anderson and Kronos recently performed Landfall at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, leading the Knoxville News Sentinel to call it the “one absolutely must-see performance” of the festival.

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Sam Amidon continues his tour with Sharon Van Etten with two sold-out shows at Brudenell Social Club in Leeds, England, Saturday and Sunday. After his shows with Van Etten, Amidon will lead his own headlining tour of Europe. The video for his song “Blue Mountains,” a track from his 2014 Nonesuch release Lily-O, premiered this week via Paste, which calls the album “excellent.”

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Timo Andres is joined by fellow pianist David Kaplan for a program of four-hand piano works including music from Andres’s debut album, Shy and Mighty, at Bargemusic in Brooklyn tonight—a New York Classical Review Critic’s Choice—and at the National Gallery of Art’s West Garden Court in Washington, DC, on Sunday. Both concerts include music by Brahms; tonight’s program also includes a four-hands arrangement of Beethoven’s “Pastorale” Symphony and Andres’s Retro Music, and Sunday’s program, with the National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble, includes a new cycle Kaplan commissioned from a wide range of composers to accompany and interpolate Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze.

Following the 2010 Nonesuch release of Shy and Mighty, on which Kaplan also performs, The New Yorker’s Alex Ross wrote that the composer’s music “achieves an unhurried grandeur that has rarely been felt in American music since John Adams came on the scene.”

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Olivia Chaney joins fellow singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan and broadcaster Dylan Haskins for Soundings: Holy Trinity, an evening of storytelling and music, at Sutton House in London on Sunday. Chaney is the musical guest for the last of three nights the Soundings podcast is hosting at the venue this weekend.

Chaney’s debut album, The Longest River, which the Observer calls “an enchanting, stately creation,” is out next week on Nonesuch. She celebrates the album’s release with several shows in the UK in May and in North America in June.

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Jeremy Denk makes his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra this week, performing Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at his alma mater, Oberlin College and Conservatory, on Friday and at Cleveland’s Severance Hall on Saturday. Also on the program, led by Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki, are Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka.

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Rhiannon Giddens continues her spring tour with performances at St. Cecilia Music Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, tonight and at Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sunday. The Boston Globe described her performance last weekend as “marvelous,” noting her “facility at both incorporating myriad genres of American music and combining the traditional and innovative.” Her debut record, Tomorrow Is My Turn, which the Independent called “outstanding,” was released on Nonesuch in February.

Giddens' performance for CBS This Morning's Saturday Sessions will air on CBS stations across the United States tomorrow morning. Tune in then to watch her perform songs from the new album.

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Richard Goode gives the last of several concerts this season at Carnegie Hall tonight then heads to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a performance at the University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium Sunday afternoon. The program for both events includes Mozart’s Adagio in B Minor, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major, Brahms’s Klavierstücke, Debussy’s Children's Corner, and Schumann’s Humoreske in B-flat Major. The New York Times says “it is virtually impossible to walk away from one of Mr. Goode’s recitals without the sense of having gained some new insight into the works he played or about pianism itself.”

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Robert Plant pays tribute to American folk legend Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on Saturday along with Alison Krauss, Buddy Miller, Viktor Krauss, and others. “It’s pretty infectious, joyous music, but echoes something else pretty sad,” Plant told the Washington Post, describing the experience of listening to Lead Belly’s music in his youth. “But for us, as kids, it was just, ‘That’s great.’” The concert, called Lead Belly at 125: A Tribute to an American Songster, is hosted by former Carolina Chocolate Drops member Dom Flemons and features the performers’ unique takes on songs from Lead Belly’s iconic catalogue.

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Steve Reich’s multimedia collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot Three Tales is performed at the Science Museum’s IMAX Theatre in London tonight, following a performance this past Wednesday. The piece, a video opera exploring the deepening relationship between humans and technology, is performed by Synergy Vocals, which gave the premiere performance of the piece in 2002 and can be heard on its first recording on Nonesuch Records, and Ensemble BPM. Three Tales incorporates live orchestra and singers, sampled audio, re-processed historical film, and videotaped interviews to examine three momentous scientific events that occurred during the 20th century: the crash of the Hindenburg in 1937, nuclear bomb tests on Bikini Atoll in 1946–1958, and the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1996. The production is conducted by Artistic Director Nick Sutcliffe, directed by Matthew Eberhardt and produced by Amanda Carrick.

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Wilco kicked off its 2015 North American 20th anniversary tour earlier this week with two shows in Texas. The tour continues this weekend with a set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival tonight and at the Capital City Amphitheater in Tallahassee, Florida, on Sunday.

Nonesuch Records celebrated the 20th anniversary of Wilco’s very first show last November with the release of two new Wilco collections: Alpha Mike Foxtrot, a four-disc box set of rare studio and live recordings collected from the band’s extensive audio archives, and What’s Your 20?, a two-CD compilation of essential tracks culled from the band’s previously released studio recordings.

Yesterday, April 23, is another important date in Wilco and Nonesuch history: it was on that date in 2002 that the band made its Nonesuch Records debut with the release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The album went on to gain worldwide critical acclaim and be certified Gold in the US, and remains Wilco’s best-selling album to this day.