Here’s an opera-singer-goes-off-piste LP that’s unusually rewarding...Lindsey’s assimilation of the style sounds near effortless, and only occasionally does she give the feeling she has anything... — The Guardian, 15th June 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, but grew up steeped in the music of Broadway, from Gershwin to Cole Porter. Baptiste Trotignon is a multie 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, as well as the 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

Track Listings

1Nanna's Lied
2Pirate Jenny - Barbara Song
3Trouble Man
4Hymne
5Je Ne T'aime Pas
6Thousands of Miles - Big Mole
7Don't Look Now
8Schneeglöckchen
9Die Stille Stadt
10Mond, So Gehst Du Wieder Auf
11Lonely House - We'll Go Away Together
12Der Abschiedsbrief
13Denn Wie Man Sich Bettet, So Liegt Man
14Buddy On the Nightshift - Berlin Im Licht
15Und Hat Der Tag All Seine Qual
16Selige Stunde