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Featured Release
John Adams
Hallelujah Junction: A Nonesuch Retrospective (2 CDs)
This new, two-disc compilation is both companion to Adams's memoir of the same name and an exploration of his Nonesuch catalog. The composer, declares The New Yorker, "has addressed life as it is lived now, and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience." Reg: $19.97; now: $17.
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John Adams
Hallelujah Junction: A Nonesuch Retrospective (2 CDs)
This new, two-disc compilation is both companion to Adams's memoir of the same name and an exploration of his Nonesuch catalog. The composer, declares The New Yorker, "has addressed life as it is lived now, and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience." Reg: $19.97; now: $17.
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John Adams
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life (Book + 2 CDs)
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.
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Philip Glass
Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective
This 10-disc compilation surveys 40 years of the iconic artist's work: groundbreaking early solo pieces, the revolutionary Einstein on the Beach, film scores, etudes, symphonies, and much more. The elegantly designed "interim report," as critic Tim Page writes in his liner note, traces the evolution of "the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music—simultaneously."
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John Adams
A Flowering Tree
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.
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Chris Thile
Edgar Meyer and 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.
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Chris Thile
Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile (Deluxe CD + DVD)
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. It has the pedigree of a superstar session but feels like a conversation between friends. Deluxe edition includes DVD with performances, rehearsals, and behind-the-scenes interviews with the duo.
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Isabel Bayrakdarian
Gomidas Songs
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."
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Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (LP + CD)
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.
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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."
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Laurie Anderson
Mambo and Bling
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.