Playlists
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.
Enjoy selections from all the latest new and upcoming Nonesuch releases.
Pianist Jeremy Denk 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 Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish, John Adams, Kronos Quartet, Richard Goode, Brad Mehldau, Caroline Shaw, Dawn Upshaw, and So Percussion, featuring music by Ives, Crumb, Schoenberg, Brahms, and more, and the Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack and Jonny Greenwood's There Will Be Blood score.
Composer Donnacha Dennehy 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 Henryk Górecki, John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, Louis Andriessen, and Giya Kancheli, and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares.
Composer/guitarist Yasmin Williams 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 Makaya McCraven, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tigran Hamasyan, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Sam Amidon.
Kronos Quartet founder, artistic director, and violinist David Harrington 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 Carlos Paredes, Dumisani Abraham Maraire, Astor Piazzolla, and Steve Reich.
Celebrating 72nd DownBeat Critics Poll winners Darcy James Argue, Arranger; Mary Halvorson, Guitar; Cécile McLorin Salvant, Female Vocalist; and Ambrose Akinmusire, Trumpet—all of whose albums are among the Jazz Albums of the Year—and Rhiannon Giddens, Beyond Artist and Beyond Album of the Year.
Laurie Anderson 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 Randy Newman, Steve Reich, Conor Oberst, Philip Glass, Bill Frisell, John Adams, and Rhys Chatham.
Celebrating Black Music Month every day with new and classic Nonesuch recordings by Rhiannon Giddens, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Vagabon, Ambrose Akinmusire, Davóne Tines, Julia Bullock, Nathalie Joachim, Makaya McCraven, Yussef Dayes, Lianne La Havas, Yasmin Williams, Jeff Parker, Allen Toussaint, and more
Celebrating LGBTQ+ composers, performers, and allies with new and classic Nonesuch recordings