Playlists
Celebrating the year in Nonesuch music from Mary Halvorson, Yussef Dayes, Nathalie Joachim, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Ringdown, The Staves, Timo Andres, Metropolis Ensemble, The Black Keys, John Adams, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, Brad Mehldau, Illinoise, Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion, The Staves, Gabriel Kahane, Laurie Anderson, Davóne Tines, The Truth, Rhiannon Giddens, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Yasmin Williams, Carminho, Jeremy Denk, Silkroad Ensemble, Donnacha Dennehy, Alarm Will Sound, Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Wilco.
Holiday tunes both classic and soon-to-be-so from The Staves, Rachael & Vilray, Chris Thile, The Magnetic Fields, David Byrne, Joachim Cooder, Mountain Man, Rostam, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Julia Bullock, John Adams, Boston Camerata, and The Nutcracker.
Enjoy selections from all the latest new and upcoming Nonesuch releases.
Classical singer Julia Bullock stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. She chose recordings by the Gipsy Kings, k.d. lang, Jan DeGaetani, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, Sanford Sylvan, Caetano Veloso, and John Adams.
Composer/performer Gabriel Kahane stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. He chose recordings by Ambrose Akinmusire, Punch Brothers, Sam Amidon, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Richard Goode & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Fred Hersch, and his father, Jeffrey Kahane.
Cécile McLorin Salvant stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. She chose recordings by Philip Glass, Jeff Parker, Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet, Early Music Consort of London, Björk, Caetano Veloso, Steve Reich, Dawn Upshaw, Adam Guettel, Gipsy Kings, and monks from Khampagar Monastery.
Music from all of the Nonesuch recordings nominated for Grammy Awards in 2024 from The Black Keys, Ambrose Akinmusire, John Adams, Timo Andres, Caroline Shaw, and Sō Percussion.
A few songs as a reminder that, while life and, hopefully, trying times are short, art is long. Featuring Hurray for the Riff Raff, Rhiannon Giddens, Davóne Tines, Makaya McCraven, Ry Cooder, Nathalie Joachim, Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, Conor Oberst, Gabriel Kahane, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Emmylou Harris, Laurie Anderson, John Adams, Kronos Quartet, and more.
In this age of anxiety, may this playlist—fourteen hours of songs from some forty years of Nonesuch recordings—bring some calm. Available on Spotify and Apple Music, excerpts from which are embedded here.
Happy Halloween! Don't abandon hope, for when darkness falls from a phantom thread of holy dread, panic, and primal anxiety, as dark angels and dead things descend, while your enemies are asleep, and zombie boys, sinister kids, and ghosts come howlin' for you in the final hour of these strange times when nothing is taboo, may you find an epiphany—some strange asylum and eternal light in the dark matter of the Nonesuch playlist below, featuring music from Thomas Adès, Kronos Quartet, Clint Mansell, Jonny Greenwood, Darcy James Argue, Caroline Shaw, Laurie Anderson, John Adams, Davóne Tines, Philip Glass, Tigran Hamasyan, Jeremy Denk, Björk, The Black Keys, The Magnetic Fields, Michael Daves, The Staves, Lianne La Havas, William Brittelle, Daniel Wohl, and more.
Composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue, who was named Arranger of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll, stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. He chose recordings by Bill Frisell, Don Byron, Julius Hemphill, Kronos Quartet, and Randy Newman.
Celebrate the sesquicentennial of composer Charles Ives with a playlist of Nonesuch recordings both classic and soon to be so of Ives music performed by Jeremy Denk, Stefan Jackiw, John Adams, Dawn Upshaw, Bill Frisell, Gilbert Kalish, and Jan DeGaetani.