April 2014 – Explorations: Nonesuch President Bob Hurwitz, Rhiannon Giddens, Timo Andres




Barbican Contemporary Podcast show

Summary: 'You can love a lot of different things that are not strictly one thing or another', says Bob Hurwitz, President of Nonesuch Records... Openness about music seems to be the strongest force at the heart of leading American record label, Nonesuch Records; while 'Do I love it? Have I heard it before?' seem to be the two simple, practical principles which, in the last 50 years, have stirred the label towards artists of the calibre of Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet, John Adams, Emmylou Harris, Jonny Greenwood and more.