Un Portrait Musical: LP

CAM Sugar and Decca Records France present a new original compilation centred around the four iconic films that saw the collaboration of Academy award-winning composer Philippe Sarde, legendary French director Claude Sautet, and iconic actress Romy Schneider: four soundtracks, four music portraits of Romy Schneider, at four different moments of her life, as an artist and woman.
This exceptional album brings together for the first time these four scores and songs composed by Philippe Sarde, one of the most prolific French composers, averaging 18 millions of streams just on Spotify in the last 12 months. The compilation includes tracks such as the French and Italian versions La Chanson d'Hélène by Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli; La Lettre de Rosalie by Romy Schneider (from César & Rosalie) and a world premiere recording: La Maison sur la plage (A House by the Sea), a lost song  penned by Sarde and Dabadie for Schneider in 1972, now gracefully recorded by Italo-French singer and actress Alice Taglioni specially for this project; Max et les ferrailleurs (including the title song by Mouloudji) and Une Histoire Simple.
Listening to these four soundtracks in a row reveals the magic chemistry between an actress, a director and a composer: “Through her magnetism and her fragilities, Romy is without doubt the actress who inspired and touched me the most,” concludes Philippe Sarde, melancholically.

Side A - Les Choses de la vie (1969)
01) La Chanson d’Hélène 2’53’’ (Romy Schneider & Michel Piccoli)
02) Les Choses de la vie (générique)
04) Prélude à l’accident 2’04’’
05) L’Accident Ralenti 01’58’’
06) Les Choses de la vie 02’28’’
07) La Mort 01’39’’
08) La Rochelle 01’53’’
09) Vision de la mort et cauchemar 02’20’’
10) Pierre et Hélène 00’58’’
 
Side B - Max et les ferrailleurs (1971)
01) Max et les ferrailleurs (générique) 2’35’’
02) A la longue vue 1’06’’
03) Juke-box chez Saidani 02’46’’
04) Lily et Max (with the voice of Romy Schneider) 02’19’’
05) Le Bal des ferrailleurs 02’42’’
06) Destruction et redemption de Max 01’54’’
07) Max et les ferrailleurs 02’56’’
 
Side C - César et Rosalie (1972)
01) La Maison sur la plage (Alice Taglioni) 4’36’’*
02) César et Rosalie (générique) 02’06’’
03) Le Cortège et la course 02’25’’
04) La Lettre de Rosalie (Romy Schneider) 01’38’’
05) Après Sète 02’07’’
06) César 1’49’’
07) César, David et Rosalie (final) 01’52’’
08) Thème (piano solo) 02’48’’

Side D - Une histoire simple (1978)
01) Une histoire simple (générique début) 02’09’’
02) Solitude 01’18’’
03) Le temps qui passe 01’46’’
04) Concert et bandoneon 03’50’’
05) Duo 01’40’’
06) La Mort 02’21’’
07) Ballade 01’12’’
Bonus track
08) La Canzone di Hélène (Italian Version) (Romy Schneider et Michel Piccoli) 02’53’’
From Les Choses de la vie
 
Bonus track (CD & digital)
La Lettre de Rosalie (Sandrine Bonnaire & Erik Truffaz) 4’08’’
From César et Rosalie