Vijay stopped by the Nonesuch office to pick some of his favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. Opening music: "Gently Trapped" by Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto Vijay Iyer's Nonesuch Selects 0:19 Javanese Court Gamelan nonesuch.lnk.to/JavaCourtGamelan 1:28 Ramnad Krishnan's 'Vidwan: Songs of the Carnatic [...]
In Darkness and Light, pianist Sarah Rothenberg’s new solo recording, features two daunting piano works, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32 (Op. 111) and Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari, alongside a piece of Vijay's she commissioned and premiered a few years ago, titled For My Father. You can get the album (CD or digital) through the [...]
In December, together with sarode player Alam Khan (son of the late Ali Akbar Khan) and Nitin Mitta on tabla, Iyer released a collaborative a EP titled Sanctuary. According to San Francisco Classical Voice, “Although it is common to hear a sarod and tabla together, the addition of the piano… gives the music a stunning ethereal [...]
In November Iyer’s quartet with drummer Tyshawn Sorey, bassist Yunior Terry, and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill played a sold-out twelve-set run at the Village Vanguard in New York. Iyer also performed a special concert in New York with celebrated composer-saxophonist Henry Threadgill and composer-drummer Dafnis Prieto. 2026 began with a solo tour to London, Porto and [...]
Thereupon is the long-anticipated return of the all-star collaborative trio Fieldwork, which has been described by NPR as a “power trio for the new century.” This long-standing collective comprises three internationally revered innovators of contemporary music: alto saxophonist-composer Steve Lehman, pianist-composer Vijay Iyer, and drummer-composer Tyshawn Sorey. In the seventeen years since their last recording, Door (Pi), all three musicians have climbed to the [...]
