Les Choristes [Import]

1. Les Choristes

2. In Memoriam

3. L'arrivÉE ÉCole

4. Pepinot

5. Vois Sur Ton Chemin

6. Les Partitions

7. Carresse Sur L'ocÉAn

8. Lueur D'ÉTÉ

9. Cerf-Volant

10. Sous La Pluie

11. CompÈRe Guilleri

12. La DÉSillusion

13. La Nuit

14. L'incendie

15. L'ÉVocation

16. Les Avions En Papier

17. Action RÉAction

18. Seuls

19. Morhange

20. In Memorium A Capella

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Motion picture soundtrack for the popular, 2004 French film. The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively effect the students' lives through music. The original soundtrack is by Christophe Barratier (also director of the film) & Bruno Coulais. Warner.

Tracks:

Les Choristes
In Memoriam
L'Arrivee a L'Ecole
Pepinot
Vois sur ton Chemin
Les Partitions
Caresse sur L'Ocean
Lueur d'Ete
Cerf-Volant
Sous la Pluie
Compere Guilleri
La Desillusion
La Nuit
L'Incendie
L'Evocation
Les Avions en Papier
Action Reaction
Seuls
Morhange
In Memoriam A Cappella
Nous sommes de Fond de l'Etang

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Already a box office sensation with a million-selling soundtrack in its native France, writer/director Christopher Barratier's tale of a post-war music teacher's lasting impact on his young charges rode its formulaic Hollywood roots all the way to Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Foreign Language Film, as well as an Oscar nod for Best Song ("Look To Your Path [Vois Sur Ton Chemin]," a collaboration between the director and film composer Bruno Coulais). Taking his inspiration from the boy's chorus at the center of the film's drama, Coulais has concocted a masterful, classically rooted score that showcases the crystalline, youthful harmonies of Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc Choir. The composer bridges the baroque and modern eras in a collection of mostly Latin choruses and chants, a skillful, often haunting fusion that also netted Coulais' compelling score BAFTA and Cesar Awards in Britain and his native France, respectively. -- Jerry McCulley

Album Description

The Chorus (Les Choristes), written and directed by Christophe Barratier, is already a French cinema phenomenon. The modestly budgeted film about a music teacher in a post-war France who wins over the troubled students at a boarding school arrived in French theatres last summer with little advance hype. Defying industry expectations, this affecting tale proceeded to break box-office records. The soundtrack to The Chorus (Les Choristes) features performers by the Lyon-based Petits Chanteurs de Saint Marc and several haunting solo turns by 13 year-old boy soprano Jean-Baptiste Maunier, who also portrays the youthful protagonist of the film.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing children's voices.......2007-05-14

This CD has been in the player in my kitchen ever since it arrived and has been played many times, and no one in the family is tired of it. The children's voices are wonderful, the pieces are beautiful, the harmonies haunting. A longtime favourite for sure.

Great Music.......2007-05-11

The CD is so enjoyable. The music is beautiful. I can not say enough good about it. The orchestra and choir are outstanding. The move is also wonderful, French with subtitles. I heard the CD when I was visiting a friend in Germany. I ordered the CD and movie as soon as I arrived back in the States. Such beautiful melodies and performance quality of the highest standard.

THE CHORUS CD.......2007-05-07

Excellent CD! Good sound reproduction and excellent music. Makes you feel like you are watching the movie again! Angelic young voices singing beautiful French choral pieces. Beautiful and relaxing.

Great music, but missing some songs from the movie.......2007-02-25

I rented this movie last year, and really enjoyed it. However, when I bought the CD, I discovered it was missing my favorite song from the movie. However, the songs on the album are absolutely beautiful.

a wonder.......2007-01-19

this collection of music is one of the finest things which i have ever listened to. the movie is equally beautifull.

Average customer rating:

Surprised by exellence!
one of the few best films in french and world movie history
Expertly composed and executed---beautiful music
An Enjoyable Soundtrack
Divine voices these boys possess.

Les Choristes
Original Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001HYTWM
Release Date: 2004-05-03

Tracks:

Choristes
In Memoriam
Arrivl'ole
Pnot
Vois Sur Ton Chemin
Partitions
Caresse Sur l'Oc
Lueur d'
Cerf-Volant
Sous la Pluie
Compere Guilleri
Dllusion
Nuit
Incendie
ocation
Avions en Papier
Action Rtion
Seuls
Morhange
In Memoriam a Cappella
Nous Sommes de Fond de l'ang

Album Description

Motion picture soundtrack for the popular, 2004 French film. The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively effect the students' lives through music. The original soundtrack is by Christophe Barratier (also director of the film) & Bruno Coulais. Warner.

Album Details

Bruno Coulais Composed and Recorded this Original Soundtrack for the Motion Picture Directed by Gérard Jugnot and Became an Instant Hit in France in Spring 2004!

Customer Reviews:

Surprised by exellence!.......2007-06-17

This is a remarkably good album. We enjoyed the music in the movie but were even more surprised at the quality of the musical production. We look forward to -- hope for actually -- more of the same by this great ensemble. Have they / will they tour to the US? Hoping...

one of the few best films in french and world movie history .......2005-01-30

The music and the film are both memorable and uplifting. I have seen many movies and many foreign as well as US films. This will be one of the few that will stay with me. It is a must see movie, a cinematographic library classic. I recommend it to anybody and everybody. Families will enjoy it and it is a way to introduce children to beautiful music and all things beautiful. The film celebrates the values of education through music. It is certainly not a sappy story; it is not a story that fits in with the liberal ideological project of brainwashing the youth; so NPR wouldn't like it. Naturally. But everybody, from every nation or creed, left or right, will most likely love this film and it will stay with them as one of the few touching films ever made.

Expertly composed and executed---beautiful music.......2005-01-18

This soundtrack, with music written by the film's director and another composer and performed by a real French boy choir, is great fun to listen to---kids and adults alike have delighted in the catchy tunes. It's true---the music is slightly repetitive, but nonetheless addictive and enjoyable.

The musical highlight is Rameau's "O Nuit"---many will also enjoy the minor, but still very catchy "Vois soir ton chemin", the theme song of the movie. The choir is impressive, especially in the lower registers which are usually harder for boychoirs to sing well---Jean-Baptiste Maunier, the soprano soloist is pure, clear and extremely effective. He definately knows how to sing.

The orchestra adds a lot---but the boys can also sing well unaccompanied. The orchestrations are superb.

An Enjoyable Soundtrack.......2005-01-15

Until recently, I had never heard of the French film LES CHORISTES. I only became familiar with it when I was driving and heard a report about it on NPR. A film critic considered it a rather bad movie with a bad plot, and mediocre music. Yet the movie is a blockbuster in France, the soundtrack is a bestseller, and it will probably have some success in the United States as well. In the report, they played a few excerpts, and it caught my interest. I purchased it, and can see why it has such appeal.

The soundtrack is a collection of a few themes worked and reworked which is not uncommon for movie soundtracks. The music is simple enough that it would likely enhance the film while not taking way from the action. The instrumental music is enjoyable, but the real gem of the collection are the tracks with the boy chorus and especially the tracks with soloist Jean-Baptiste Maunier. There is a beauty and innocence to the boys' choir voices, which is in sharp contrast to the reality of the young people in the film who happen to be in a reform school. It also seems like the sort of soundtrack that can be enjoyed without seeing the film, and for many of us who will have to wait until it will appear to be a money making film, we will have to settle for the soundtrack only for the time being.

Until I see the film, I cannot say if it is truly an insipid story. Since I love a good sappy film, I will probably enjoy it and am anticipating its release in Boston. Yet I know that many wonderful films that are a joy to watch have rather weak stories, but excellent musical scores make them memorable and moving. Judging from this soundtrack, the music of LES CHORISTES has the potential to make the film memorable.

Divine voices these boys possess........2004-12-21

Well, if you haven't watch the movie, do watch it. It has got to be one of the most heart warming films I've ever seen. If you ever get the priviledge of listen to the boys sing, you will know what I am saying. Their voices blend perfectly together with the background music. In fact, they would have sounded as beautiful without the instruments. Their voices are of the purest, each ringing clearly and melding together to form beautiful music.