it was after the triple lp "ludwig - l'imaginaire - le bateau ivre" was released in 1982, that léo ferré decided to dedicate his upcoming year to bring "the night" back to life. as time had passed, ferré had accumulated a lot of material, and he chose to enrich his original text and score with elements from various sources, thus creating a new baroque work of much larger scope (it would take four lp to hold this whole new version).