Le Chant du Monde

For the novel and the film, see The Song of the World and Le Chant du monde (film).

Le Chant du monde is the oldest French record label and music publishing house in activity. It has been created in 1938 by Léon Moussinac and has been supported in the beginning by such allied as classical composers Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Charles Kœchlin, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Albert Roussel, and such conductors as Roger Désormière and Manuel Rosenthal.

Le Chant du Monde is particularly known worldwide for having gathered the first collection of traditional music and ethnographic recordings.[1] It commissioned composers to transcript French oral traditions and music alike.

After World War II, the label acquired les Éditions sociales internationales and shortly became the French editor of Russian composers Serge Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khatchatourian and also the first producer of Léo Ferré, Mouloudji, Cora Vaucaire, then Colette Magny, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Uña Ramos and occasionally worked with Glenmor, Albert Marcœur, or Paolo Conte to name just a few. The company merged in 1993 with Arlesian-based French distributor and music label Harmonia Mundi, focused on classical music.

They're now publishing old classics and new comers of chanson (Léo Ferré, Édith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Julos Beaucarne, Éric Lareine...), gypsy jazz (Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, Tchavolo Schmitt, Raphaël Faÿs, Angelo Debarre, Bireli Lagrène, Florin Niculescu, Steeve Laffont, Yorgui Loeffler), french jazz, children and traditional music, and old rock'n'roll musicians (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Bill Haley, Gene Vincent, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins).

References

  1. ↑ Jon Pareles (September 15, 2002). "Music; Around The World In 92 Discs". The New York Times.

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