In the mid-1980s, the French group Marc Seberg sang, through the dark voice of Philippe Pascal, ex of the group Marquis de Sade, one of the most poignant poems ever written by Baudelaire, the sonnet
Recollection.
Reminder:
“Be wise, O my Pain, and keep yourself quieter./ You were asking for the Evening;
he goes down;
here it is: / An obscure atmosphere envelops the city, / To some bringing peace, to others concern. "
And his final verse which slams and resonates again, a century and a half later:
"Hear, my dear, hear the sweet Night which walks."
This setting to music, which is added to so many others, testifies to the topicality, the proximity, even the complicity between Baudelaire and his readers, beyond generations and centuries.
Previously, there was Debussy (notably on the same
Recollection
), Duparc
(L'Invitation au voyage),
Chabrier, Sauguet, Fauré.
And, in another register, Léo Ferré (in 1967), then very recently Bertrand Louis.
Without forgetting Henri Dutilleux, who,
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