★Nonesuch
Harmonielehre (LP)
1985 composition with the perfect fusion of turn of the Century Romantic music with Minimalism, released by Nonesuch on the "Meet The Composer Orchestra Residency Series" contemporary music series in the same year.
The Art Of Joan La Barbara (LP)
Fantastic album with the great singer performing with her extended vocal technique and electronics three compositions for voice, instruments and electronics by herself plus one piece for voice, cellos, English horn and synthesizer by Subotnick, released by Nonesuch in 1985.
The Desert Music (LP)
Original German edition of the 1985 LP on Nonesuch of the 1983 pulsing cantata for voices and orchestra.
Sextet / Six Marimbas (LP)
Original German edition of the 1987 LP on Nonesuch with two excellent phasing compositions for percussion (plus piano and synthesizer on one) from the mid 1980's.
Silver Apples Of The Moon (LP)
'The' Buchla synthesizer album and a seminal and influential timeless electronic music classic, released by Nonesuch in 1967. Essential. Allentown pressing.
A Sky Of Cloudless Sulphur / After The Butterfly (LP)
Excellent 1980 LP on Nonesuch pairing two compositions from the late 1970's: a full electronic synthesizer/tape piece and composition for trumpet with ensemble and live electronics (the "electronic ghost score").
Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings
Trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's album Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings is due June 12, 2026, on Nonesuch Records. The album features four new compositions by each musician as well as one collaboration. The album track “Soundcheck“ is available today and can be heard below; you can pre-order the album here. The duo, long admirers of each other’s musicianship, met at Halvorson’s Brooklyn apartment and began playing together periodically, going back as fa…
Concerto For Prepared Piano & Orchestra / Baroque Variations (LP)
The important 1951 Concerto with Cage's first foray in chance operations conducted by Lukas Foss with pianist Yuji Takahashi, backed by the conductor's charming baroque piece for orchestra, released by Nonesuch in 1968.
Ancient Voices Of Children (LP)
Beautiful and evocative 1970 reverberating cycle of songs for soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified and toy piano and percussion by the highly original composer, released by Nonesuch in 1972.
Music For A Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (LP)
Beautiful and eerie 1975 chamber work by the highly original composer for two amplified pianos and percussions used with extended techniques , released by Nonesuch in 1975.
Music Of Barber, Copland, Cowell, Del Tredici, Foss, Griffes (LP)
1985 LP on Nonesuch with several 20th Century American compostions for flute and piano performed by Carol Wincenc accompanied by composers Lukas Foss and David Del Tredici, and by Samuel Sanders.
A Solo Requiem / Haiku Settings / Filigree Setting / Three Synthesizer Settings (LP)
1981 LP on Nonesuch with some great late 1970's synthesizer music by Powell plus compositions for soprano and piano and for string quartet by both composers spanning from 1958 to 1977. With insert.
Dark Angels / Songs Of Remembrance (LP)
Two dark chamber works from the mid-1970's by one British and one American composer, released on Nonesuch in 1977.
Black Angels
On Black Angels, Kronos Quartet turns George Crumb’s Vietnam-era nightmare into the axis of a stark, haunted program, binding early music, American modernism and Shostakovich’s war-torn melancholy into one of the group’s darkest, most enduring statements.
Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass
On Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet turns four string quartets into a self‑portrait of the composer, charting his path from theatre and film scores to music written directly for the group, all in a language of pulsed clarity and slowly deepening harmony.
Reich/Richter
On Reich/Richter, Steve Reich joins Ensemble Intercontemporain and conductor George Jackson for a single 37‑minute arc of pulsed colour, a chamber‑orchestral score conceived in dialogue with Gerhard Richter’s moving stripes, where pattern, blur, and return become musical form.
Runner - Music For Ensemble And Orchestra
On Runner / Music for Ensemble and Orchestra, Steve Reich joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki for two late-period works that stretch his pulsed minimalism onto a large orchestral canvas, maintaining propulsive clarity while opening into shimmering, almost symphonic depth.
Amelia
On Amelia, Laurie Anderson turns Amelia Earhart’s final flight into a 22-part dream-report: chamber strings, electronics and spoken word trace a route from Oakland to disappearance, where navigation data, weather reports and ghostly lullabies fold into one drifting, time-bent monologue.
The Big Gundown (John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone) (LP)
Original German edition with gatefold sleeve of the 1986 hommage to the wonderful music of Ennio Morricone from the NY sax player and composer, surrounded by Arto Lindsay, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Jody Harris, Christian Marclay, Anton Fier and many others.
Touch
With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers — Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, and Jeff Parker — harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise's un…