Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters kick off a sold-out tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland at Newport Centre in Wales on Sunday. The 13-city tour continues in Bournemouth and London in the week ahead, and makes stops in Hull, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle, Cambridge, Wolves, Belfast, Dublin, and Blackpool, before a return to Wales for a final stop in Llandudno before the end of the month.

Plant and the band were guests on BBC Two’s Later ... with Jools Holland last week, performing “Little Maggie,” “Turn It Up,” and “House of Love” from his new album, lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar. Fans in the UK can watch those performances again plus their take on Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” at bbc.co.uk. You can also see Plant’s conversation with Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch hosts Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer at channel4.com.

Songlines recently featured lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar on its list of the ten Best Albums of 2014. It is this week’s Album of the Week at The Current, which says “lullaby might be Plant’s best album of his solo career.”

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John Adams’s 1991 opera The Death of Klinghoffer receives another performance at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City on Saturday as part of its Met premiere season At the same time, on the other side of the Lincoln Center plaza, the composer’s fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine opens a performance by the Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall.

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The Black Keys continue their Turn Blue World Tour out West at The Cosmopolitan’s Mophie Stage in Las Vegas on Saturday and the Viejas Arena at San Diego State University’s Aztec Bowl in California on Sunday. The current leg of the tour, which stops in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Denver in the week ahead, features supporting sets by special guest Jake Bugg.

The Los Angeles Times, reviewing The Black Keys' sold-out show at The Forum last night, calls the band "the most prominent American rockers in the world, able to craft nuanced rock 'n' soul one minute and hard-sweating guitar funk the next." The San Jose Mercury News , reviewing Monday's show in Oakland, exclaims: “It was, without a doubt, the finest Black Keys show I’ve seen. Credit that, in large part, to this year’s Turn Blue.”

Next week, the band marks Veterans Day with a performance on the National Mall in Washington, DC, for The Concert for Valor to honor America’s veterans and their families; you can watch a live broadcast of the show on HBO on Tuesday.

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Olivia Chaney joins Eliza Carthy and the Arms Wide Orchestra for a performance of reimagined folk songs at Kings Place in London Saturday night. Chaney's Nonesuch debut album is due out in early 2015.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk performs at McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey, tonight—which the Star-Ledger selects as one of the Top Five shows in New Jersey this week—and the Royal Conservatory’s Koerner Hall in Toronto on Sunday afternoon. Both programs include Haydn’s Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Mozart’s Rondo in A Minor, Schumann’s Carnaval, and selections from Janáček’s On the Overgrown Path interspersed with works by Schubert.

“His touch was delicate and nuanced, and yet his phrasing was firm and propulsive,” writes the OC Register about Denk’s recent performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in Los Angeles. “Denk maneuvered [the outer movements] with care and bravado, finding shapes and swells and gusts in the notes flying by.” The Los Angeles Times also notes “Denk opening ruminatively yet with clearer definition and variety of color as the piece unfolded.”

Denk recently spoke with the San Francisco Classical Voice for its Artists on the Bench series this week. You can read what he has to say at sfcv.org.

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Richard Goode performs works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, and Schumann at Clayton State University’s Spivey Hall in Morrow, Georgia, tonight.

The Boston Globe's Matthew Guerrieri, in a recent review titled “Richard Goode beautifully navigates late Beethoven,” writes: “If Goode’s choices underscored Beethoven’s audacity, the magnitude of his technique reaffirmed Beethoven’s grace. Goode’s touch was unfailingly deep, solid, and resonant even in soft passages, lending definition and intent to every note. And his virtuosity was invisibly profound, making Beethoven’s most awkward passages feel natural. It is no small feat to have such knotty music seem to fall effortlessly into place.” Goode famously recorded a landmark set of the Complete Beethoven Sonatas for Nonesuch in 1993.

Coincidentally, Goode spoke with the San Francisco Classical Voice for its Artists on the Bench series last month. You can read what he has to say at sfcv.org.

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Pianist Tigran Hamasyan, whose Nonesuch Records debut album, Mockroot, is due out in early 2015, is currently touring Europe, performing at Théâtre Victor Hugo in Bagneux, France, tonight; Verkadefabriek in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, on Saturday, for the November Music Festival; and De Warande in Turnhout, Belgium, on Sunday. Stay tuned for additional details of the album release to come.  

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Emmylou Harris helps round out the four-day Grammy Festival at Sea: Women Who Rock cruise on the Stardust Stage tonight, aboard the Norwegian Pearl, which departed Miami on Tuesday and is sailing around the Bahamas. Shawn Colvin offers an afternoon set on the same stage, and both singer/songwriters performed two additional sets on the ship earlier this week. Once the ship returns to the Miami shore, Harris is joined by special guests Walter Parks and Lee Hunter for a performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts’ Knight Concert Hall on Sunday. She has two more shows in Florida in the week ahead.

“If you don't follow your heart, what is speaking to you at the moment and inspiring you, then I think you’re going to pay,” she told the Miami New Times in advance of the show. She also spoke with the Tampa Bay Times about musical collaboration and her groundbreaking album, Wrecking Ball, which was reissued on Nonesuch Records earlier this year; you can read that interview at tampabay.com.

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Kronos Quartet performs at Verkadefabriek’s Grote Zaal in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, on Sunday, as part of the November Music Festival at which Tigran Hamasyan plays on Saturday. On the program are works by Komitas, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Bryce Dessner, and Mary Kouyoumdjian, as well as Ramallah Underground’s “Tashweesh,” from Kronos’ 2009 Nonesuch album, Floodplain, and Omar Souleyman’s “La Sidounak Sayyada,” featured on Kronos’ most recent release, A Thousand Thoughts, which Songline’includes among the ten Best Albums of 2014.

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Randy Newman performs the first of two shows in Florida at the Flagler College Auditorium in St. Augustine on Sunday. He offers selections from his various Nonesuch releases as well as favorites from throughout his storied career.

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Joshua Redman Trio, featuring Reuben Rogers on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums, which can be heard on Redman’s recent Nonesuch release, Trios Live, concludes its four-night residency at Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis tonight and on Saturday. Redman heads to Europe to join the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra for two sets in Spain and Portugal before rejoining his Trio for the last leg of its tour in the Midwest.

“I always felt that there was a certain energy and intensity that we got to in a live situation that wasn’t—and probably couldn’t be—documented in a studio record,” Redman tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “The trio, right now, is playing in a more open and relaxed way than we ever have before.”

Redman is also part of the collaborative band James Farm, whose sophomore album, City Folk, was released last week on Nonesuch Records.

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Stephen Sondheim’s first musical, Saturday Night, written in 1954 but unproduced until 40 years later, is performed by The York Theatre Company at St. Peter’s Church in New York City on Saturday and Sunday, with additional performances November 12–16, all on New York magazine’s to-do list. This marks the first New York production of Saturday Night since its area premiere in 2000, of which Nonesuch released the cast recording.

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Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau conclude their duo tour of Europe in three different countries this weekend: at Le Prisme in Elancourt, France, tonight; Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat in Barcelona on Saturday, as part of the Barcelona Jazz Festival; and the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Sunday.

Mehldau recently spoke to the Irish Examiner about crossing genres and collaborations: “Chris is an incredibly inspiring musician to play with every night, and really keeps me on my toes—I can’t just settle into a comfort zone with him or he’ll play me into irrelevance.”