Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | "Chan Chan" from Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall (Buena Vista Social Club) | 3:39 |
| 2 | "Harps and Angels" from Harps and Angels (Randy Newman) | 5:10 |
| 3 | "Hold On" from All I Intended to Be (Emmylou Harris) | 4:35 |
| 4 | "Ham & Cheese" from Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile (Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile) | 2:20 |
| 5 | "I Dream of Spring" from Watershed (k.d. lang) | 4:00 |
| 6 | "Son of Thirteen" from Day Trip (Pat Metheny with Christian McBride & Antonio Sanchez) | 5:49 |
| 7 | "Variations for Vibes, Pianos, and Strings: Slow" from Daniel Variations (Steve Reich) | 6:52 |
| 8 | "Don't Do Anything" from Don't Do Anything (Sam Phillips) | 3:28 |
| 9 | "Act II, Scene 4: Kumudha and the Beggar Minstrels" (excerpt) from A Flowering Tree (John Adams) | 7:08 |
About this Album
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1. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB: Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall
This double-disc live recording, produced by Ry Cooder, presents the Buena Vista Social Club's triumphant Carnegie Hall concert—a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of veteran Cuban stars who made history there in 1998. "The 30 musicians onstage that night were aristocracy in action," declared Newsweek.
2. RANDY NEWMAN: Harps and Angels
Newman's first all-new studio recording in nine years incorporates both the scathingly satirical and the unabashedly tender. Variety says the album finds Randy "at the height of his powers," and Time Out New York's six-star review says the "outstanding album ... confirms his place among our best living songwriters."
3. EMMYLOU HARRIS: All I Intended to Be
A stellar cast of musicians and friends join Harris for this Brian Ahern–produced set showcasing her extraordinary gifts as songwriter, song-finder, and interpreter. Guests include the McGarrigles, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, and members of the Seldom Scene.
4. EDGAR MEYER & CHRIS THILE: Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
Double-bassist Meyer and Punch Brothers mandolin player Thile, both Grammy Award–winning virtuosos, incorporate bluegrass, folk, country, and classical elements into this musical tête-à-tête, recorded at Meyer's Nashville studio. It has the pedigree of a superstar session but feels like a conversation between friends.
5. K.D. LANG: Watershed
The first self-produced album from k.d. lang, Watershed contains 11 new, original songs; The Times of London describes it as "a masterpiece that holds its place next to, maybe even slightly above, her 1992 hit, Ingénue."
6. PAT METHENY: Day Trip
The Boston Globe calls Day Trip "Metheny at his best, creating music of understated sophistication by interacting sublimely with equally talented musicians" in a trio outing with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez. Album includes two Nonesuch Store live bonus downloads—"Traveling Fast" and " TromsØ."
7. STEVE REICH: Daniel Variations
"Reich has done it again," writes the Los Angeles Times' Mark Swed. "Daniel Variations is compelling, lofty, universal, and very powerful. Reich has written gorgeous, overwhelming music before, but in this he outdoes himself." Album includes the exclusive Nonesuch Store bonus download, Dance Patterns.
8. SAM PHILLIPS: Don't Do Anything
Phillip’s first self-produced disc is spare and haunting, with a pronounced rock feel. Players include renegade classicists, the Section Quartet. Album includes exclusive Nonesuch Store bonus downloads: new versions of “Zero Zero Zero,” “Taking Pictures,” and “I Don’t Know Why.”
9. JOHN ADAMS: A Flowering Tree
John Adams's 2006 opera was written, he says, for "a time of global awareness." The composer drew inspiration from Mozart's Magic Flute and ancient Indian folk-tales; the libretto, co-written by Adams and director Peter Sellars, is in English and Spanish. The New Yorker calls the work "opulent, dreamlike, fiercely lyrical."