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Following Kremer’s performance of the complete Mozart violin concertos at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart 2006, the New York Times praised "his ability to make a work, however familiar, entirely his own, dissimilar in most important details from the way other violinists play it, yet fully within both the spirit and letter of the score.” This two-disc set captures Kremer and Kremerata Baltica's performance of the five concertos at the Salzburg Festival two days later.

The late Michael Disfarmer was an odd, curmudgeonly character in rural Arkansas, who, despite his anti-social character, chose to record the stark images of his fellow townspeople, during the 1940s and '50s, in black-and-white photo portraits. Frisell has now set the images to music, joined by lap steel guitarist Greg Leisz, violinist Jenny Scheinman, and bassist Viktor Krauss for this recording of original Frisell tunes and interpolations of songs by the likes of Hank Williams Sr.

This three-disc vinyl release combines the 2008 Day Trip studio album and Tokyo Day Trip: Live EP in a three-pocket deluxe package with all the music on two CDs as well. “The trio format brings out the best in guitar virtuoso Pat Metheny," declared the Boston Herald upon the Day Trip CD release, calling this ensemble "arguably his best yet.”

"The brilliant performances on Voltaic make it clear that Björk isn't just a visionary," NPR exclaims, "but also an artist who inspires those around her to create equal parts music and magic." The project ocuments and celebrates, in music and video, Björk's ambitious two-year world tour following the 2007 release of Volta. This MP3 album features the remixes of Volta album tracks by such fellow travelers as Spank Rock, Simian Mobile Disco, Ratatat, and Modeselektor, as heard on disc in the Voltaic deluxe package.

"The brilliant performances on Voltaic make it clear that Björk isn't just a visionary," NPR exclaims, "but also an artist who inspires those around her to create equal parts music and magic." The project documents and celebrates Björk's ambitious world tour following the 2007 release of Volta. This deluxe version includes the thrilling, one-take result of a studio set she made with her touring band; tour DVD, filmed in Paris and Reykjavik; remixes of Volta tracks; DVD of Volta video clips.

"The brilliant performances on Voltaic make it clear that Björk isn't just a visionary," NPR exclaims, "but also an artist who inspires those around her to create equal parts music and magic." The project documents and celebrates Björk's ambitious world tour following the 2007 release of Volta. This version contains the thrilling, one-take result of a studio set she made with her touring band—combining Volta tracks with revitalized interpretations of older favorites—available on CD, LP, and MP3.

Christina Courtin makes her Nonesuch debut with an album Time Out New York calls "superb" and "beautifully textured" and the Huffington Post describes as "a wonderful concoction," with "hypnotic music" and "toasty-warm" vocals. The New York Times says her voice “feels uniquely otherworldly, as if it couldn’t possibly be entirely human born.”  Nonesuch Store Exclusive: bonus download "We'll Meet Again."

Seya (“Joy”), Sangare’s first international release in six years, "combines modernity and tradition with seamless verve," says The Observer (UK). Her vocals, the Daily Telegraph noted, exude “ancestral passion and a thoroughly modern, urban poise.” Sangare is backed by a large, all-star ensemble of Malian and international musicians, including longtime accompanist "Benogo" Brehima Diakité (kamele ngoni); two James Brown veterans, saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis and trombonist Fred Wesley; and Fela Kuti’s legendary musical director, Nigerian drummer Tony Allen.

Nonesuch Store Exclusive: Between 1975 and 1980, Nonesuch released a series of five LPs of pianist Gilbert Kalish performing the rarely recorded Haydn piano sonatas. Now, on the 200th anniversary of the composer's death, the recordings are being reissued, this time as digital albums, exclusively in the Nonesuch Store. Volume II includes the sonatas Hob. XVI: Nos. 19, 44, and 37, as well as Variations in F Minor, Hob. XVII:6.