Composer/performer Gabriel Kahane 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 Ambrose Akinmusire, Punch Brothers, Sam Amidon, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Richard Goode & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Fred Hersch, and his father, Jeffrey Kahane.

Enjoy selections from all the latest new and upcoming Nonesuch releases.

Cécile McLorin Salvant 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. She chose recordings by Philip Glass, Jeff Parker, Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet, Early Music Consort of London, Björk, Caetano Veloso, Steve Reich, Dawn Upshaw, Adam Guettel, Gipsy Kings, and monks from Khampagar Monastery.

Music from all of the Nonesuch recordings nominated for Grammy Awards in 2024 from The Black Keys, Ambrose Akinmusire, John Adams, Timo Andres, Caroline Shaw, and Sō Percussion.

A few songs as a reminder that, while life and, hopefully, trying times are short, art is long. Featuring Hurray for the Riff Raff, Rhiannon Giddens, Davóne Tines, Makaya McCraven, Ry Cooder, Nathalie Joachim, Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, Conor Oberst, Gabriel Kahane, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Emmylou Harris, Laurie Anderson, John Adams, Kronos Quartet, and more.

In this age of anxiety, may this playlist—fourteen hours of songs from some forty years of Nonesuch recordings—bring some calm. Available on Spotify and Apple Music, excerpts from which are embedded here.

Happy Halloween! Don't abandon hope, for when darkness falls from a phantom thread of holy dread, panic, and primal anxiety, as dark angels and dead things descend, while your enemies are asleep, and zombie boys, sinister kids, and ghosts come howlin' for you in the final hour of these strange times when nothing is taboo, may you find an epiphany—some strange asylum and eternal light in the dark matter of the Nonesuch playlist below, featuring music from Thomas Adès, Kronos Quartet, Clint Mansell, Jonny Greenwood, Darcy James Argue, Caroline Shaw, Laurie Anderson, John Adams, Davóne Tines, Philip Glass, Tigran Hamasyan, Jeremy Denk, Björk, The Black Keys, The Magnetic Fields, Michael Daves, The Staves, Lianne La Havas, William Brittelle, Daniel Wohl, and more.

Composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue, who was named Arranger of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll, 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 Bill Frisell, Don Byron, Julius Hemphill, Kronos Quartet, and Randy Newman.

Celebrate the sesquicentennial of composer Charles Ives with a playlist of Nonesuch recordings both classic and soon to be so of Ives music performed by Jeremy Denk, Stefan Jackiw, John Adams, Dawn Upshaw, Bill Frisell, Gilbert Kalish, and Jan DeGaetani. 

Pianist Jeremy Denk 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 Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish, John Adams, Kronos Quartet, Richard Goode, Brad Mehldau, Caroline Shaw, Dawn Upshaw, and So Percussion, featuring music by Ives, Crumb, Schoenberg, Brahms, and more, and the Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack and Jonny Greenwood's There Will Be Blood score.

Composer Donnacha Dennehy 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 Henryk Górecki, John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, Louis Andriessen, and Giya Kancheli, and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares.

Composer/guitarist Yasmin Williams 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. She chose recordings by Makaya McCraven, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tigran Hamasyan, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Sam Amidon.