Welcome to 1989 (Nonesuch's Version), a new playlist of works from Nonesuch Records' 1989 releases by John Adams, Edward Aldwell, Jan DeGaetani, Bill Frisell, Gipsy Kings, Philip Glass, Richard Goode, Wayne Horvitz, Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny, Steve Reich, Rustavi Choir, Dawn Upshaw, Word of Mouth Chorus, World Saxophone Quartet, and more!

Nonesuch Records began recording jazz in 1984 and has worked with Cécile McLorin Salvant, Mary Halvorson, Makaya McCraven, Brad Mehldau, Darcy James Argue, Yasmin Williams, Ambrose Akinmusire, Yussef Dayes, Joshua Redman, Jeff Parker, Tigran Hamasyan, Rachael & Vilray, Rob Mazurek, Ben LaMar Gay, Sam Gendel, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Allen Toussaint, Fred Hersch, and more, heard here.

As part of Kronos: Five Decades, the year-long celebration of Kronos Quartet’s 50th anniversary, the group is publishing five decade-spanning playlists curated by its founder and violinist David Harrington. The first, featuring music Kronos performed in its first decade, 1973–1982, is out now. It includes works the quartet would later record on Nonesuch by George Crumb, Ken Benshoof, Terry Riley, Anton Webern, Peter Sculthorpe, Dmitri Shostakovich, Jimi Hendrix, Aulis Sallinen, Alban Berg, Witold Lutosławski, and Samuel Barber.

A wide range of popular music from many of the world’s leading singers and songwriters, like David Byrne, Natalie Merchant, Emmylou Harris, Randy Newman, and k.d. lang, and new generations of musicians, like The Black Keys, Rhiannon Giddens, Molly Tuttle, Vagabon, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Punch Brothers, The Staves, and more.

Songs of love, in its many forms and stages.

Celebrating the year in Nonesuch music from Tyondai Braxton, Punch Brothers, Laurie Anderson, Tigran Hamasyan, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Brad Mehldau, The Staves, Gabriel Kahane, Molly Tuttle, Wilco, Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder, Astor Piazzolla, The Black Keys, Mary Halvorson, Rhiannon Giddens, Steve Reich, John Adams, Gipsy Kings, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Brian Blade, Michelle Branch, Makaya McCraven, Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, Philip Glass, Rachael & Vilray, The Blue Hour, Tom Skinner, and Julia Bullock.

Music from all of the Nonesuch recordings nominated for Grammy Awards in 2022 from Molly Tuttle, The Black Keys, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Brian Blade, Punch Brothers, Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Wilco, and Astor Piazzolla.

Celebrating the year in Nonesuch music from Vagabon, Caroline Shaw, So Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish, Mariza, Our New Orleans, The Staves, Mountain Man, Louis Andriessen, Lake Street Dive, Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi, Laurie Anderson, Sound of Metal, Lianne La Havas, Tigran Hamasyan, The Black Keys, k.d. lang, Chris Thile, Brad Mehldau, Conor Oberst, Emmylou Harris, Sam Gendel, Jeremy Denk, Ben LaMar Gay, Jeff Parker, Tyondai Braxton, Punch Brothers, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and Molly Tuttle.

The songs and cast albums of Stephen Sondheim on Nonesuch Records, featuring Mandy Patinkin, Audra McDonald, Dawn Upshaw, Jonny Depp, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris, Raúl Esparza, Laura Benanti, Nathan Lane, Neil Patrick Harris, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Alexander Gemignani & more.

All of Jonny Greenwood's Nonesuch recordings so far in one playlist: Phantom Thread, Junun, Inherent Vice, The Master, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia, and Norwegian Wood, and There Will Be Blood.

All of the k.d. lang Nonesuch releases on one playlist: "Constant Craving (Fashionably Late Remix)" with Tracy Young, "Miss Chatelaine (Iron Hoof Remix)" with Orville Peck, makeover, "Sleeping Alone (Live from the Majestic Theatre)," Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition, Sing it Loud, Recollection, Watershed, and Hymns of the 49th Parallel.

Steve Reich's complete Nonesuch catalog so far, 35+ years in the making, from one of "the greatest composers of the century" (New York Times), on Spotify and Apple Music.