Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire

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Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire
Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedJune 1967
Barclay Studio, Paris (France)
GenreChanson
Length60:02
LabelBarclay Records
Léo Ferré chronology
La Marseillaise
(1967)
Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire
(1967)
L'Été 68
(1969)

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[edit]

Texts by Charles Baudelaire. Music composed by Léo Ferré.

Original LP
Side one
No.TitleLength
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
Side two
No.TitleLength
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
Side three
No.TitleLength
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
Side four
No.TitleLength
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[edit]

  • The orchestra consists of session musicians hired for the recording

Credits[edit]

  • Arranger & orchestra conductor: Jean-Michel Defaye
  • Director of engineering: Gerhard Lehner
  • Executive producer: Jean Fernandez
  • Artwork: Vanni Tealdi (first edition), Charles Szymkowicz (second edition)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ferré asked to remove this title when the album was first reissued in 1973. It is unavailable since then.

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