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Catherine Lara - Les Romantiques
Country - France Player - Xavier, Antoni and Morgan
| LES ROMANTIQUES
Le rideau rouge va se lever, s’envoler Les marionnettes vont s’éveiller, s’animer Dans un théâtre abandonné j’ai trouvé Des personnages, des paysages de papier
C’est une histoire que j’ai volée à ma mémoire
Les romantiques sont dans l’air du temps Les romantiques ont toujours vingt ans Et la musique comme la poésie Va réinventer la vie
Les romantiques ont brisé les murs Les romantiques sont au temps futur Et la folie de vivre au grand jour Va réinventer l’amour
Les romantiques
Un autre monde va m’emporter, m’enlever D’autres couleurs vont effacer mon passé Dans un voyage inanimé, j’ai laissé Ma liberté entre les pages d’un cahier
C’est une histoire que j’ai volée à ma mémoire
Où sont passées les passions Où est allée la déraison Qui ont fait ton nom Le cœur avait ses raisons Selon les heures ou les saisons Mais les jours s’en vont |
ROMANTICS
The red curtain will rise, fly away Marionettes will wake up, come to life In an abandoned theatre I’ve found Paper-made figures, sceneries
It’s a story I’ve stolen from my memory
Romantics are always twenty years old And music like poetry Will invent life again
Romantics have broken walls Romantics belong to future time And craziness of living in the day light Will invent love again
Romantics
Another world will take me away Other colours will delete my past In a inanimate journey, I’ve let My liberty between a notebook’s pages
It’s a story I’ve stolen from my memory
Where has craziness gone That have made your name Heart has had its reasons According to hours or seasons But the days are going away |
| Player's comments: | Catherine Lara is
born in 1945 in Poissy, near Paris. Graduated from the Conservatoires of
Versailles and Paris, she begins her career as a violonist in the sixties,
working with great names like Nana Mouskouri, Mireille Mathieu, Juliette
Gréco or Claude Nougaro. Then she starts singing, and she releases
her first album in the early seventies, followed by several others but she
really gets big success in 1981 with the albums “Johan” and
“La rockeuse de diamants” in 1983. In 1986, the song “Nuit
magique” (Magic night) is again a great hit (the greatest to date),
and she gets the award of the best singer of the year. Since then, she releases
regularly albums with more or less success, the last to date being “Aral”
in 2000, a totally instrumental album.
The song “Les Romantiques” is released in 1991. It’s part of a musical encalled “Sand et les Romantiques” (Sand and the Romantics) played in 1992 and 1993. This album is dedicated to George Sand (1804-1876), who is not only one of the most famous French writers, but also a symbol of feminism. The musical deals with George Sand’s life (her love stories with Chopin and De Musset are still famous). For this musical Catherine Lara is accompanied by many renowned names (Richard Cocciante, Maurane, Véronique Sanson, Daniel Lavoie…) and the music is played by the London Symphony Orchestra. The text of “Les Romantiques” is written by famous Canadian Luc Plamondon (who wrote musical “Starmania” and many other hits), and the music by Eddie Rosemond. The backing singers are Joniece Jamison, Richard Cocciante, Daniel Lavoie and Claude Lauzzana. |