Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire
Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire (English: "Léo Ferré sings Baudelaire") is an album by Léo Ferré, released in 1967 by Barclay Records. It is his fourth LP dedicated to a poet, after a first Baudelaire effort in 1957 (Les Fleurs du mal), Les Chansons d'Aragon in 1961, and Verlaine et Rimbaud in 1964. It is also his second studio double album.
Track listing
Texts by Charles Baudelaire. Music composed by Léo Ferré.
- Original LP
1. |
"Spleen" |
3:54 |
2. |
"À une Malabaraise" (To a Lady of Malabar) |
2:30 |
3. |
"Épigraphe[1]" (Epigraph for a Condemned Book) |
0:51 |
4. |
"L'Étranger" (The Stranger) |
2:43 |
5. |
"Tu mettrais l'univers" (You would take the entire world to bed with you...) |
2:52 |
6. |
"Le Chat" (The Cat) |
4:34 |
7. |
"Le Soleil" (The Sun) |
3:06 |
8. |
"Le Vin de l'assassin" (The Murderer's Wine) |
2:23 |
9. |
"L'Albatros" (The Albatross) |
2:22 |
10. |
"À une passante" (To a Passerby) |
2:10 |
11. |
"Le Flacon" (The Perfume Flask) |
3:18 |
12. |
"La servante au grand cœur" (The kind-hearted servant of whom you were jealous...) |
3:19 |
1. |
"Abel et Caïn" (Abel and Cain) |
2:10 |
2. |
"La Géante" (The Giantess) |
2:12 |
3. |
"Remords posthume" (Posthumous Remorse) |
1:32 |
4. |
"Les Bijoux" (The Jewels) |
4:00 |
5. |
"La Musique" (Music) |
1:49 |
6. |
"La Beauté" (Beauty) |
2:26 |
7. |
"Causerie" (Conversation) |
2:11 |
8. |
"Recueillement" (Meditation) |
2:30 |
9. |
"La Muse vénale" (The Venal Muse) |
1:22 |
10. |
"Ciel brouillé" (Cloudy Sky) |
2:27 |
11. |
"Une charogne" (A Carcass) |
2:25 |
12. |
"Le Vert Paradis (Moesta et Errabunda)" (Grieving and Wandering) |
3:55 |
Personnel
- The orchestra consists of session musicians hired for the recording
Credits
- Arranger & orchestra conductor: Jean-Michel Defaye
- Director of engineering: Gerhard Lehner
- Executive producer: Richard Marsan
- Artwork: Vanni Tealdi (first edition), Charles Szymkowicz (second edition)
References
- ↑ Ferré asked to remove this title when the album was first reissued in 1973. It is unavailable since then.
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Studio albums | 1950s | |
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| 2000s |
- Métamec
- Le Temps des roses rouges
- Les Chansons interdites… et autres
- De sac et de cordes
- Maudits soient-ils !
- La Mauvaise Graine
- Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin)
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Live albums |
- Récital Léo Ferré à l'Olympia
- Léo Ferré à Bobino
- Récital à l'Alhambra
- Récital en public à Bobino 1969
- Seul en scène
- Léo Ferré au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
- Léo Ferré au Théâtre libertaire de Paris (1986, 1988, 1990)
- Sur la scène...
- Un chien à Montreux
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Compilation albums | |
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Tribute albums |
- Philippe Léotard chante Léo Ferré (1993, Philippe Léotard)
- On a marché sur l'amour (1994, Renée Claude)
- Avec Léo (2003, collective album with 13 artists)
- Ferré, l'amore e la rivolta (2003, Têtes de bois)
- Hurletout... Léo Ferré (2003, Bell Œil)
- Charles et Léo (2007, Jean-Louis Murat)
- Poète, vos papiers ! (2007, Yves Rousseau, Jeanne Added et Claudia Solal)
- F. à Léo (2007, Roberto Cipelli & Paolo Fresu)
- Léo Ferré, l'âge d'or (2010, Annick Cisaruk)
- Love and Anarchy: the songs of Léo Ferré (2013, Peter Hawkins)
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Writings |
- Poète... vos papiers ! (1956)
- La Nuit (1956)
- Benoît Misère (1970)
- Testament phonographe (1980)
- Les Chants de la fureur (2013)
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