Kate Lindsey & Baptiste Trotignon - Thousands of Miles (Bonus Track Version) (2017)

Closing the distance between classical music and Broadway, between the old world and the new, this album is born out of a stunning encounter between two performers. Kate Lindsey is an opera star whose career is skyrocketing. She has stunned audiences with her performances of Mozart and Purcell. Baptiste Trotignon is a multi award-winning jazz pianist who plays with big names like Brad Mehldau or Tom Harrell, but who has a long-held interest in classical music, even composing a piano concerto for Nicholas Angelich. Together, they have produced a rich and varied programme around the songs of Kurt Weill, from Nanna’s Lied to Trouble Man, and classics from The Threepenny Opera and Lost in the Stars.

This journey through three European languages brings the listener to the very beginnings of jazz, and features all-new arrangements and deft improvisations by pianist Baptiste Trotignon. Lindsey and Trotignon also pay homage to three composers who, like Weill, all emigrated to the United States: Alma Mahler, Zemlinsky and Korngold. London-based American mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey joins Alpha Classics for several recordings over the coming years.

TRACKLIST

01. Nannas Lied: Nanna’s Lied - Kate Lindsey
02. The Threepenny Opera: The Threepenny Opera: Pirate Jenny-Barbara Song - Baptiste Trotignon
03. Lost in the Stars: Lost in the Stars: Trouble Man - Baptiste Trotignon
04. 5 Gesänge: Hymne - Kate Lindsey
05. Je ne t'aime pas: Je ne t’aime pas - Kate Lindsey
06. Lost in the Stars: Lost in the Stars: Thousands of Miles-Big Mole - Baptiste Trotignon
07. One Touch of Venus (arr. B. Trotignon for voice and piano): Don’t Look Now - Baptiste Trotignon
08. 6 Einfache Lieder, Op. 9: Schneeglöckchen - Kate Lindsey
09. 5 Lieder: Die stille Stadt - Kate Lindsey
10. 4 Abschiedslieder, Op. 14: Mond, so gehst du wieder auf - Kate Lindsey
11. Street Scene: Street Scene: Lonely House-We’ll Go Away Together - Baptiste Trotignon
12. Der Abschiedsbrief: Der Abschiedsbrief - Kate Lindsey
13. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: Denn wie man sich bettet, so liegt man - Baptiste Trotignon
14. Buddy on the Nightshift-Berlin im Licht: Buddy on the Nightshift-Berlin im Licht - Kate Lindsey
15. Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 8: Und hat der Tag all seine Qual - Kate Lindsey
16. Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 10: Selige Stunde - Kate Lindsey
17. La complainte de la Seine (Bonus Track) - Kate Lindsey
18. Abschiedslieder, Op. 14: I. Sterbelied (Bonus Track) - Kate Lindsey
19. 5 Gesänge, Op. 7: I. Da waren zwei Kinder (Bonus Track) - Kate Lindsey