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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. Includes exclusive Nonesuch Store bonus download, "Danzonette."

This newly remastered version of Metheny's 1989 studio jam with two jazz legends, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Roy Haynes, features standards and Metheny originals. The set, says the Washington Post, "has a wonderfully free and spontaneous air about it."

John Adams's long-awaited memoir relates the composer's life story, from his childhood to his early studies in classical composition amid the musical and social ferment of the 1960s. Adams offers a portrait of the rich musical scene of 1970s California, and of his contemporaries and colleagues, including John Cage, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Available with the two-disc compilation of the same name exploring his Nonesuch catalog. Reg: $45.97; now: $39.

This contemplative solo set features Shinichi Yuize, known internationally as both a virtuoso koto player and a composer. He traces the history of one of the world's oldest instruments through these five compositions, performing haunting vocals on two of them.

This double-disc live recording, produced by Ry Cooder, presents, on vinyl, 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. Includes exclusive Nonesuch Store bonus download, "Danzonette."

The Armenian-Canadian soprano examines the legacy of Gomidas Vardabet, the 19th-century composer who preserved, transcribed, and interpreted the lullabies, hymns, folk dances, and ancient songs of his Armenian homeland. Bayrakdarian, says Time, "combines lyricism with remarkable dramatic instincts." Exclusive Nonesuch Store bonus downloads: "Dsidsernag" and "Hayasdan."

John Adams wrote his 2006 opera for, he says, "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." Reg: $29.97; now: $25.

On its Nonesuch debut, Wilco delivers a thrillingly experimental work that scored a perfect 10 on Pitchfork, which hailed the album as “complex and dangerously catchy, lyrically sophisticated and provocative, noisy and somehow serene … simply a masterpiece.” As the New York Times put it, Jeff Tweedy’s “songs about love, America, apocalypse, and self-invention unfold in richly enigmatic arrangements.” LP includes album CD and MP3 downloads.

After its US premiere in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, the Boston Globe wrote that "musically, Homeland is perhaps Anderson's most sophisticated and intriguing work." "Mambo and Bling," now available in the Nonesuch Store as a special, limited-edition 7" vinyl single, is the first recorded music from the project to be released.