As part of the celebration of Nonesuch Records' 60th anniversary, we launched Nonesuch Selects, a video series in which artists stop by the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorites from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. Classical singer Julia Bullock—who continues an annual tradition of performing in John Adams's El Niño with Davóne Tines and AMOC at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City this Thursday—stopped by and chose recordings by the Gipsy Kings, k.d. lang, Jan DeGaetani, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, Sanford Sylvan, Caetano Veloso, and Adams. You can watch it below and subscribe to the Nonesuch Records YouTube channel for all the latest:

Julia Bullock made her solo recording debut with Walking in the Dark, which was released on Nonesuch in 2022 and won the GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. She and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Christian Reif, perform Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and a song from Adams’s El Niño. She is joined by Reif, on piano, for a traditional spiritual and songs by Oscar Brown, Jr., Billy Taylor, Sandy Denny, and Connie Converse. Bullock is “one of the singular artists of her generation,” says the New York Times, “a singer of enveloping tone, startlingly mature presence and unusually sophisticated insight into culture, society and history.” Julia Bullock performs on the first recording of John Adams’ 2017 opera, Girls of the Golden West, released earlier this year and up for two GRAMMYs: Best Opera Recording and Best Engineered Album, Classical.

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