Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire

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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

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Spleen"	3:54
2.	"À une Malabaraise" (To a Lady of Malabar)	2:30
3.	"Épigraphe" (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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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: Jean Fernandez
• Artwork: Vanni Tealdi (first edition), Charles Szymkowicz (second edition)