Les Choristes

The resounding success of France movie director Christophe Barratier’s film Les Choristes (2004), specifically its Oscar-nominated, César-awarded soundtrack, spawned a few different album releases. Motivated with the Jean Dréville film traditional La Cage aux Rossignols (1945), Les Choristes (billed in British as “The Chorus”) is certainly graced using a soundtrack by celebrated French film composer Bruno Coulais. The music are performed by Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc, a children’s choir from Lyon, France. Critically acclaimed and showered with honours in the film celebration circuit, Les Choristes was a global success, particularly with regards to vital acclaim. In France the film was honored Césars for Greatest Music Written for the Film and in addition Best Sound; on the other hand, in america it gained Academy Prize nominations for Greatest SPANISH Film and Greatest Original Melody (“Turn to YOUR WAY”), and also a Silver Globe Prize nomination for Greatest SPANISH Film. Upon its Western european discharge in 2004, the film’s industrial soundtrack topped the French albums graph for a complete of 11 weeks and reached number 3 in the Belgian albums graph. The soundtrack was eventually released in america in early 2005, around once the live record Les Choristes en Concert premiered on Compact disc/DVD.