''Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin)'' (English: "''The Flowers of Evil (last and final)''") is an album by
Léo Ferré, posthumously released in 2008 by La Mémoire et la Mer. It is his third musical effort dedicated to
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited ...
's poetry, after the seminal ''
Les Fleurs du mal
''Les Fleurs du mal'' (; en, The Flowers of Evil, italic=yes) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.
''Les Fleurs du mal'' includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First publish ...
'' in 1957 and the expanding double
LP ''
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 m ...
'' in 1967.
History
This
posthumous
Posthumous may refer to:
* Posthumous award - an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death
* Posthumous publication – material published after the author's death
* ''Posthumous'' (album), by Warne Marsh, 1987
* ''Posthumous'' ...
album brings together all the
demo versions Léo Ferré recorded by himself, at home in
Tuscany
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, between the summer of 1976 and winter 1977.
[Alain Raemackers, liner notes of the album.] The French singer-songwriter initially aimed to record a new baudelairian
double album in 1977, as it was both anniversary dates of ''
Les Fleurs du mal
''Les Fleurs du mal'' (; en, The Flowers of Evil, italic=yes) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.
''Les Fleurs du mal'' includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First publish ...
'' first publication (1857) and
Baudelaire's death (1867). For unknown reasons, Ferré never completed this project. It remains a piano and a voice, bare and intimate.
Nevertheless, Ferré orchestrated and recorded twos demos here in 1986 (''Je te donne ces vers afin que si mon nom'' and ''L'Examen de minuit - Bien loin d'ici''), to release them on ''
On n'est pas sérieux quand on a dix-sept ans''.
Track listing
Texts by
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited ...
. Music composed and played by Léo Ferré at the piano.
Credits
* Tape restoration and mastering at Studio La Buissonne
* Cover photography: Hubert Grooteclaes,
Nadar
* Package Art & Design: Rinaldo Maria Chiesa & Vital Maladrech
* Liner notes: Mathieu Ferré, Alain Raemackers
* Compiled and Coordinated by Mathieu Ferré & Alain Raemackers
External links
Album listening & presentation(French)
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Léo Ferré albums
Les Fleurs du mal in popular culture
French-language albums
2008 albums
Musical settings of poems by Charles Baudelaire