Gabriel Kahane brings Book of Travelers out West … Sam Amidon, Nico Muhly join Aurora Orchestra in London … Jeremy Denk is in Cleveland, Pittsburgh … Rhiannon Giddens is in Turin … Tigran Hamasyan joins Brussels Philharmonic, plays solo in Manchester … Lake Street Dive, Joshua Redman are in Florida … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Durham …

British rising country soul star Yola's debut solo album, Walk Through Fire, produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, will be released February 22, 2019, on Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound label, distributed by Nonesuch Records. "The moment I met Yola I was impressed," says Auerbach. "Her spirit fills the room, just like her voice … she has the ability to sing in a full roar or barely a whisper and that is a true gift." Videos for two songs from the album, "Faraway Look" and "Ride Out in the Country," can be seen here.

Laurie Anderson is among the jury members for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, which runs January 24 through February 3 in Utah. She will serve as a jury of one for the NEXT Innovator's Award. "Sundance Institute will gather 20 celebrated and revered expert voices across film, art, culture and science to award feature-length and short films shown at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival," say the organizers.

John Adams's Doctor Atomic has been nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Award for Opera. A jury of experts selected the nominees from recordings that received five-star reviews in the magazine. Winners will be chosen by public vote, which has begun, and announced at a ceremony in London on April 10.

John Adams leads LA Phil in world premiere of new Philip Glass symphony … Olivia Chaney performs in London … Jeremy Denk plays solo in Oregon … Tigran Hamasyan is in Tel Aviv … Emmylou Harris joins Willie Nelson celebration in Nasvhille … Kronos Quartet performs in San Francisco’s Exploratorium … Lake Street Dive plays US Southeast … Steve Reich’s Pulse receives Singapore premiere … Frederic Rzewski leads London residency … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Kansas City …

A new track from pianist Jeremy Denk's forthcoming album, c. 1300–c. 2000, has been released: Brahms's Intermezzo in B Minor from Klavierstücke, Op. 119, No. 1. The piece can be heard here and is available to download now with album pre-orders, along with the previously released track, Binchois's Triste Plaisir.

Punch Brothers stopped by The Current not long after the release of their Grammy-nominated new album, All Ashore, last summer, to discuss and perform a few songs off the album. You can now watch them perform "Three Dots and a Dash" and "Jumbo" here. The band kicks off the next leg of its tour in March with Gabriel Kahane as special guest.

Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau were featured in this year's edition of NPR Music's Toast of the Nation, an annual New Year's Eve show of jazz performances. "These guys are great friends and have been playing together since the early '90s," says host Christian McBride. "A few years back, they decided to join forces once more to record a live album called Nearness. You can hear how well they connect musically." Hear it in their 2016 Blue Note Tokyo set via NPR here.

Gaby Moreno was on a special Christmas edition of Live From Here with Chris Thile live from The Town Hall in NYC on December 22. She sang the Spanish-language Christmas song "Peces en el Rio," Donny Hathaway and Nadine McKinnor's "This Christmas," and the traditional tune "All Through the Night," all of which you can watch here, along with an unforgettable performance of Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts theme "Linus and Lucy" by Thile and the band (featuring a must-see dance interlude).

As 2018 draws to a close, and the Nonesuch Journal takes a bit of a hiatus till the start of 2019, it's time to take a look back and remember all of the great and diverse music made by Nonesuch artists over the past year. Many Nonesuch artists and their recent Nonesuch releases have made music critics' and fans' year-end best lists. Here, in words and music and in chronological order, is a look back at the year in Nonesuch music. Happy holidays!

'Tis the season to be jolly with holiday songs! To add our merry to the mix, we've created Nonesuch for the Holidays, a playlist of holiday tunes both classic and soon-to-be-so from The Staves, Chris Thile, Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle with family and friends, Boston Camerata with eight centuries of Christmas music from Medieval to Renaissance to Baroque, and, of course, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra—plus, on Spotify, an exclusive from Rostam.

Chris Thile was joined by fellow Punch Brothers Chris Eldridge and Noam Pikelny as they sat in with the band on his radio show Live From Here at The Town Hall in NYC on Saturday. For a post-broadcast encore, they performed "My Oh My," from Punch Brothers' album The Phosphorescent Blues, with guest Jon Batiste. You can watch it here. Also on the show were St. Vincent (with Thomas Bartlett on piano) and Sara Watkins.