In celebration of Nonesuch Records' 60th anniversary, a playlist of songs from throughout decades.

Mary Halvorson inaugurates the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists stop by the office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. Here are songs from those picks, by Laurie Anderson, Tyondai Braxton, Jeff Parker, Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet, and Kronos Quartet, as well as her own new album, Cloudward.

Nonesuch Records launched the Nonesuch Explorer Series in the 1960s and has since presented music from the world’s leading artists, like Carminho, Caetano Veloso, Nathalie Joachim, Rokia Traoré, Youssou N'Dour, and more.

Celebrating the year in Nonesuch music from Vagabon, Rachael & Vilray, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Brad Mehldau, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Sam Gendel, Molly Tuttle, Natalie Merchant Thomas Adès, The Magnetic Fields, Emmylou Harris, David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, k.d. lang, Rhiannon Giddens, Carminho, Wilco, Yussef Dayes, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, The Staves, Yasmin Williams, Mary Halvorson, Kronos Quartet, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Adam Guettel.

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 latest, featuring music Kronos performed in its third decade, 1993–2002, is out now. It includes works the quartet recorded on Nonesuch by Alberto Domínguez, R.D. Burman, Alfred Schnittke, Lee Hyla and Allen Ginsberg, Henryk Górecki, Clint Mansell, Severiano Briseño, Tan Dun, Osvaldo Golijov, Guillaume de Machaut, Christopher Tye, John Cage, Hildegard von Bingen, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Sapo Perapaskero, Carlos Paredes, Michael Daugherty, Scott Johnson, Esquivel, Café Tacvba, Sofia Gubaidulina, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, and Morton Feldman. 

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 latest, featuring music Kronos performed in its second decade, 1983–1992, is out now. It includes works the quartet recorded on Nonesuch by Steve Reich, Ornette Coleman, Philip Glass, John Zorn, Henryk Górecki, Kevin Volans, Thomas Tallis, Astor Piazzolla, Jack Body, Terry Riley, and Arvo Pärt.

Music from all of the Nonesuch recordings nominated for Grammy Awards in 2023 from Thomas Adès, LA Phil, Gustavo Dudamel, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Julia Bullock, Rhiannon Giddens, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, and The Blue Hour.

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.