"I'm so wild about your strawberry mouth"—that's arguably François Villon's most famous line. In 26 chansons and ballads, Roland Jankowsky depicts Villon, accompanied by music, as he made his living as a highwayman and womanizer in 15th-century France, capturing his wild life in poems. The unity that is inherent in opposites such as death and life, love and separation, wealth and poverty and which François Villon Roland Jankowsky and his pianist meticulously recreate the sentiment so sharply in their performance and singing. A good half of the ballads in the program have been set to music. The music was written by Essen-based composer Tilman Reimers. The CD "Only those who live live comfortably" includes the musical setting of Jankowsky's Villon program.
1. Overture 2. Quatrain that Villon wrote after the announcement of his death sentence 3. The Ballad of a Nice Little Barber 4. The Ballad of the Faithless Cylea 5. The Ballad of the Coquillards 6. A little ballad about the little mouse that had babies in Villon's cell 7. Ballad of Short Sayings 8. Ballad of the Famous Women of Antiquity 9. The Ballad of Good and Bad Living 10. The Summer Ballad of Poor Louise 11. A little love ballad, written for Jeanne C. de Quèe 12. The Ballad of the Blasphemers 13. The Ballad of Self-Help 14. A little robber ballad by the three Coquillards 15. The Ballad of Villon and his Fat Margot 16. A ballad in love for a girl named Yssabeau (Arietta belcanto) 17. The Ballad of the Fair City of Morah 18. The Ballad of Little Florestan 19. Whore Ballad 20. The Ballad of the Pleasant Life in This World
Roland Jankowsky - Only he who lives, lives comfortably ... (Jankowsky sin
