Charles Baudelaire, 150 Years On

Playlist: English Translation texts read and French originals heard, with music inserted

1. Baudelaire: ‘Invitation to a Journey’
2. Baudelaire: ‘L’Invitation au Voyage’
3. Duparc/ Baudelaire: ‘L’Invitation au Voyage’
4. Coleridge: ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (extract)
5. Baudelaire: ‘The Albatross’
6. Baudelaire : ‘L’Albatros’
7. Leo Ferre/ Baudelaire: ‘L’Albatros’
8. Baudelaire: ‘Man and the Sea’
9. Baudelaire: ‘L’Homme et la Mer’
10. Baudelaire: ‘Correspondences’ (in English)
11. Baudelaire: ‘Correspondances’ (in French)
12. Debussy: ‘Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir’, from Preludes Book 1 (played by Alfred Cortot, 1930)
13. Baudelaire: ‘…deux postulations simultanees…’
14. Baudelaire: ‘Elevation’ (in English)
15. Baudelaire: ‘Elevation’ (in French)
16. Baudelaire: ‘The Lethe’
17. Baudelaire: ‘Le Lethe’
18. Baudelaire: ‘Previous Existence’
19. Duparc/ Baudelaire: ‘La Vie Anterieure’
20. Leo Ferre/ Baudelaire: ‘La Musique’
21. Baudelaire: ‘Meditation’
22. Debussy/ Baudelaire: ‘Recueillement’
23. Leo Ferre/ : ‘Recueillement’
24. Baudelaire: ‘The Voyage’ (ending, in English)
25. Tennyson: ‘Ulysses’ (ending)
26. T.S. Eliot: ‘Little Gidding’ (ending), from ‘Four Quartets’
27. Dutilleux: ‘Tout un monde lointain’ (3rd. movement: ‘Houles’/ ‘Surges’)