Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire

1967 studio album by Léo Ferré

Studio album by

Léo Ferré

Released

1967

Recorded

June 1967
Barclay Studio, Paris (France)

Genre

Chanson

Length

60:02

Label

Barclay 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

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^[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.	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)

References

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

External links

Album presentation (French)

Léo Ferré

Studio albums

1950s	Les Fleurs du mal La Chanson du mal-aimé (1957)
1960s	Les Chansons d'Aragon Verlaine et Rimbaud Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire L'Été 68 Les Douze Premières Chansons de Léo Ferré
1970s	Amour Anarchie La Chanson du mal-aimé (1972) Il n'y a plus rien L'Espoir Je te donne
1980s	La Violence et l'Ennui L'Opéra du pauvre
1990s	Une saison en enfer
2000s	Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin)
2010s	Je parle à n'importe qui