Composer and performer David Longstreth, whose new album with his band Dirty Projectors and the chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, Song of the Earth, is out April 4, stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. He chose recordings by David Byrne, Jonny Greenwood, Bulgarian State Television Female Choir, Caetano Veloso, Tyondai Braxton, Scritti Politti, and João Gilberto, and from the Nonesuch Explorer Series. You can watch it below and subscribe to the Nonesuch Records YouTube channel for all the latest:

Performed by Longstreth with Dirty Projectors—Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman, Olga Bell—and the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, conducted by André de Ridder, Song of the Earth also features Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Steve Lacy, Patrick Shiroishi, Anastasia Coope, Tim Bernardes, Ayoni, Portraits of Tracy, and the author David Wallace-Wells. Longstreth says that while Song of the Earth—his biggest-yet foray into the field of concert music—"is not a ‘climate change opera,’” he wanted to “find something beyond sadness: beauty spiked with damage. Acknowledgement flecked with hope, irony, humor, rage.” You can pre-order it here.

David Longstreth takes part in Mahler Grooves Listening Party, part of the LA Phil's Mahler Grooves Festival, at Paramour Estate in Los Angeles—classic Mahler recordings played in a historic setting—tonight. He shares music from Song of the Earth in listening parties and solo performances at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles this Friday and Saturday and at Public Records in Brooklyn on March 21 and 22. For details, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

You can hear a playlist of music from David Longstreth's Nonesuch Selects on Spotify and Apple Music here. You can watch all of the Nonesuch Selects videos here.