Kate Lindsey, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – Arianna (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kate Lindsey, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – Arianna (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:10 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Several composers have written music inspired by the story of Arianna (also commonly known as Ariadne) abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos. The American mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, lauded for her intelligent and luminous singing, chose to illustrate this story by means of three composers: Alessandro Scarlatti, Handel and Haydn and with the help of the Arcangelo ensemble, founded by harpsichordist and organist Jonathan Cohen. The archetype of the woman abandoned, the character of Arianna offers composers and performers alike vast expressive possibilities for an audience always eager to identify themselves with the scarred heroine.

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Kate Lindsey, Baptiste Trotignon – Thousands of Miles (Bonus Track Version) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kate Lindsey, Baptiste Trotignon – Thousands of Miles (Bonus Track Version) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:28 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

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.

“a stunning encounter between two performers”

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Kate Lindsey – Tiranno (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kate Lindsey – Tiranno (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:32 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Corruption? Betrayal? Persecution? Tyranny? These subjects resonate with the current events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also provide the subject matter of many seventeenth-century musical works. Kate Lindsey has chosen to devote this second Baroque recital with the English ensemble Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen (following “Arianna” in 2020) to the figure of Nero.

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Quatuor Van Kuijk, Alphonse Cemin, Kate Lindsey – Debussy, Ravel & Chausson: Chamber Works (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Van Kuijk, Alphonse Cemin, Kate Lindsey – Debussy, Ravel & Chausson: Chamber Works (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:58 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

The first album of the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk, a programme of Mozart, was awarded a ‘Choc de Classica’ and ‘Diapason Découverte’. Now they return to their roots with key works from the French repertory: the single quartets of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy and the Chanson perpétuelle of Ernest Chausson, in which they are accompanied by the mezzosoprano Kate Lindsey, who recently joined Alpha, and the pianist Alphonse Cemin, also well-known on the label.

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