Playlists
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Songs of love, in its many forms and stages.
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Songs for all your snow-day activities, by The Magnetic Fields, Ry Cooder, Chris Thile & Michael Daves, Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet, Scritti Politti, Pat Metheny, Rostam, Elliott Carter, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, and more.
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Celebrating the year in Nonesuch music from Jeff Parker, Daughter of Swords, Pat Metheny, Vagabon, Sam Gendel, Early James, Randy Newman, Mountain Man, Rhiannon Giddens, I Still Play, The Magnetic Fields, Natalie Merchant, RoundAgain, Lianne La Havas, Devendra Banhart, The Staves, Tigran Hamasyan, Rostam, Brad Mehldau, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Lake Street Dive, Joachim Cooder, Sam Amidon, Chris Thile, Tristan Perich, Rob Mazurek, Mariza, Stephen Sondheim, k.d. lang, Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet, Dr. John, Caroline Shaw, and The Black Keys.
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Holiday tunes both classic and soon-to-be-so from Joachim Cooder, Mountain Man, The Staves, Rostam, Chris Thile, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, John Adams, Boston Camerata, and The Nutcracker.
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Music of Beethoven performed by Jeremy Denk, Richard Goode, Malcolm Bilson, Anner Bylsma, and Mieczyslaw Horszowski.
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"I immediately got completely kidnapped by the musical world of John Adams," says filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. Here is the composer's music featured in Guadagnino's films Call Me By Your Name, A Bigger Splash, and I Am Love, as well as the HBO series We Are Who We Are.
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Happy Halloween! When darkness falls from a phantom thread of holy dread, panic, and primal anxiety, as dark angels and dead things descend 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 Kronos Quartet, Clint Mansell, Jonny Greenwood, William Brittelle, Daniel Wohl, Laurie Anderson, John Adams, Philip Glass, Tigran Hamasyan, Jeremy Denk, Björk, The Black Keys, The Magnetic Fields, Michael Daves, The Staves, Lianne La Havas, and more.
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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.
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A wide range of popular music from many of the world’s leading singers and songwriters, like David Byrne, Emmylou Harris, Randy Newman, k.d. lang, and Robert Plant, and new generations of musicians, like The Black Keys, Lake Street Dive, Rhiannon Giddens, Mountain Man, Devendra Banhart, Punch Brothers, The Staves, and more.
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On the first day of May 2020, we kicked off a 30-Day Song Challenge (plus one, for the extra day in the month), to help us keep track of the days while we stayed home, and it looked as if we would need the help to keep one day from blurring into the next. Now, as the month has ended, the days proved memorable in ways we hadn't imagined at the start. For those who joined us along the way and offered your own selections, thank you. Hope you enjoyed. Here are all 31 songs in one playlist.
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Works by groundbreaking contemporary classical composers of the 20th century and today, including John Adams, Steve Reich, Henryk Górecki, Jonny Greenwood, Terry Riley, Caroline Shaw, William Brittelle, Daniel Wohl, Donnacha Dennehy, Timo Andres, Laurie Anderson, Nico Muhly, Tyondai Braxton, and more.
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Selections from Philip Glass's Nonesuch recordings