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.

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.

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.

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.

Selections from Philip Glass's Nonesuch recordings

All the Ry Cooder Nonesuch recordings in one playlist.

An eclectic collection of songs featuring Sam Gendel, including his own solo work and tracks from Vampire Weekend, Blake Mills, Sam Amidon, Sam Wilkes, John Carroll Kirby, INGA, Fabiano do Nascimento, and Inc.

Sam Gendel's Nonesuch debut album, Satin Doll, is a futuristic homage to historical jazz, a simultaneous synchronized sonic construction/deconstruction of well-known jazz standards, including those heard here by Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, and others. 

Sondheim and Gershwin meet Guettel, Dave Malloy, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin, Dawn Upshaw & more

Celebrating the year in Nonesuch music from Jeremy Denk, Yola, Mountain Man, David Byrne, Joshua Redman, Mandy Patinkin, Caroline Shaw, William Brittelle, Rhiannon Giddens, Brad Mehldau, Daniel Wohl, The Black Keys, Daughter of Swords, Donnacha Dennehy, Kronos Quartet, Devendra Banhart, Gaby Moreno, Rachael & Vilray, Vagabon, Sam Amidon, and more.

Music from all of the Nonesuch recordings nominated for Grammy Awards in 2019 from Yola, Dan Auerbach, Rhiannon Giddens, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, and Kronos Quartet.

The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival returns to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, October 4–6, 2019, and among the performers at the free event are Emmylou Harris, Kronos Quartet, Robert Plant, Punch Brothers, Chris Thile, and Yola. Whether you'll be there or prefer to enjoy the music from afar, here are some of their songs.