“Un cycle imaginaire“ Dix mélodies d'aprčs Victor Hugo:
Oh ! Quand je dors S. 282/2
S‘il est un charmant gazon S. 284/2 (late version)
Quand tu chantes bercée S. 306a
Crucifix I S. 342/1
Comment, disaient-ils S. 276/2 (late version)
Enfant, si j‘étais roi S. 283/2 (late version)
Crucifix II S. 342/2
La tombe et la rose S. 285
Crucifix III S. 342/3
Oh! Quand je dors S. 282/1 (early version)
Jeanne d‘Arc au bűcher S. 293
Oh! Pourquoi donc S. 301a
Élégie. En ces lieux S. 301b
Tristesse. J‘ai perdu ma force et ma vie S. 327
Il m‘aimait tant! S. 271

Early versions on poems by Victor Hugo:
S‘il est un charmant gazon S. 284/1
Enfant, si j‘étais roi S. 283/1
Comment, disaient-ils S. 276/1

Franz Liszt: Complete French Songs for Soprano, Vol. 3 This volume carries the header of a "Cycle imaginaire", based on textes by Victor Hugo who seems to have been the most important poet for Franz Liszt.All Lieder textes in German/French/English here: https://avi-music.de/html/lyrics/cycle_imaginaire.html "The 3rd volume of our complete recording of Franz Liszt’s art songs is exclusively devoted to vocal settings of poems in French. Liszt was one of the few Central European composers of his time who not only mastered the French language in addition to German but was also an avid reader of contemporary French poetry. Multilingualism was relatively uncommon in the mid-1800s; Liszt was a rather exceptional polyglot, just like his pupil Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), who composed art songs in each of the six languages she fluently spoke......... Liszt’s songs have been handed down to us in several variants and versions. Thus, in this third volume, we once more had to decide whether to select one “definitive” version or offer our listeners the enriching occasion to hear several alternatives. We decided to create an imaginary song cycle of Victor Hugo settings. Admittedly, Liszt never wrote concept-oriented song cycles like those of Schubert or Schumann, but we chose to combine all of his Hugo settings (excepting Gastibelza) in a collage-like succession......In most cases, we have chosen the songs’ last versions. " .....read more (Excerpt from the booket notes by Daniel Heide)