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BEC 5543196
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An emblematic actress and a memorable figure of the French chanson scene, Jeanne Moreau passed away in 2017. She started singing as an amateur in theatre like the Comédie Française, but always wanted "to sing ballads". The man who wrote her first songs was her friend: the painter Cyrus Bassiak (pseudonym of Serge Rezvani) and like for many other artists Jacques Canetti was the one who brought her to a recording studio to record her first songs in 1963. Le Tourbillon De Ma Vie (Best Of 2017) pays homage to Jeanne Moreau by compiling for the very first time all the songs written by Cyrus Bassiak, including four songs that were nowhere to be found until today. Le Tourbillon De Ma Vie (Best Of 2017) comprises recordings made between 1963-1967 and includes unreleased songs. Includes 20-page booklet with exclusive pictures and notes from Jeanne Moreau, François Truffaut, and Cyrius Bassiak.
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BEC 5156100
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Paris, 1954. Henri-François Rey wrote the theme of the piece La bande à Bonnot and asked Boris Vian to write the songs for what would become a musical comedy. "La Bande à Bonnot" was the name of a French illegal anarchist group that operated in France and Belgium from 1911 to 1912, and as soon as the piece was played at Théâtre du Quartier Latin in 1968, French authorities demanded that it be stopped, and musical parts were subsequently lost. In 1971, Legendary French record executive, talent agent, and producer Jacques Canetti learned that the original handwritten lyrics of Boris Vian's songs had been found. Canetti asked Louis Bessières to recreate musical parts, and in 1975, Canetti released this record with Vian's songs performed by Judith Magre, Yves Robert, Lucienne Vernay, Pierre Jamet, Kim Ibarra, Maurice Barrier, and Cécile Vassort. This first-ever vinyl reissue includes two bonus tracks originally intended for inclusion in La bande à Bonnot: "La Java Des Chaussettes À Clous" by Jacques Higelin and "L'Anguille" by Magali Noël. Remastered sound; gatefold sleeve.
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Winner of the 2014 Grand Prix du Disque from the Académie Charles Cros, the premier French award for musical recordings. French actor Pierre Arditi reads Histoire d'une Jeunesse (Story of My Youth by Elias Canetti (winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981), with music by Eric Slabiak. The Arditi and Canetti families are very close -- Elias Canetti's mother was Mathilde Arditi -- so Canetti's story deals with the story of Arditi's family as well. Gatefold sleeve.
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BEC 5156102
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Winner of the 1964 Grand Prix du Disque from the Académie Charles Cros, the premier French award for musical recordings. This is an absolutely amazing recording of cult French actor Simone Signoret reading Jean Cocteau's 1930 play La Voix humaine (The Human Voice), recorded in one non-stop take in Signoret's Parisian apartment and originally released in 1964. According to French record executive, talent agent, and producer Jacques Canetti, this performance was one of the very best and most intense he ever recorded. Even if you don't understand French, you will feel Simone Signoret's incredible poignancy. Remastered sound; gatefold sleeve.
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BEC 5156201
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Deluxe double LP in gatefold sleeve with photos and biographies. Also includes a poster reproducing cult vintage concert boards, as well as all of the vinyl tracks on two CDs. Jacques Canetti was the legendary French record executive, talent agent, and producer who discovered and signed all of the greatest figures of French chanson, first for Philips and, after 1962, for his own production company, Les productions Jacques Canetti, and his own label, Disques Canetti. This deluxe set collects 33 cult songs by Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Juliette Gréco, Serge Reggiani, Boris Vian, Félix Leclerc, Lucienne Vernay, Aznavour & Roche, Jeanne Moreau, Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine, Judith Magre, Michel Legrand, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Cora Vaucaire, Eric Robrecht, Magali Noel, Mouloudji, Emmanuelle Riva, Catherine Sauvage, Pierre Brasseur, Bee Michelin, Zette, Bruno Brel, Monique Morelli, and Philippe Noiret. Because Music 10th Anniversary Vinyl Campaign. Will stay in catalog after campaign ends.
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BEC 5156186
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Legendary French record executive, talent agent, and producer Jacques Canetti recorded French singer Jacques Higelin's first disc in 1965, though their meeting dates back to 1954, when Higelin was 14 years old and was already singing Trenet -- at the time, Canetti refused to work with teenagers, whatever their talent. To celebrate the 2015 50-year anniversary of his career, the release of his 2013 album Beau Repaire, and a 2015 residency at the Philharmonie de Paris, Jacques Canetti Productions reissues his first album, with two bonus duets with French poet and vocalist Brigitte Fontaine. CD in digipak with 16-page booklet and exclusive photos.
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BEC 5156099
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Gatefold LP version. Includes CD. Legendary French record executive, talent agent, and producer Jacques Canetti recorded French singer Jacques Higelin's first disc in 1965, though their meeting dates back to 1954, when Higelin was 14 years old and was already singing Trenet -- at the time, Canetti refused to work with teenagers, whatever their talent. To celebrate the 2015 50-year anniversary of his career, the release of his 2013 album Beau Repaire, and a 2015 residency at the Philharmonie de Paris, Jacques Canetti Productions reissues his first album, with two bonus duets with French poet and vocalist Brigitte Fontaine.
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Mes 50 Ans de Chansons is a four-CD/DVD box set tracing the incredible journey of French record executive, talent agent, and producer Jacques Canetti. The first CD covers Canetti's early successes with Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Juliette Gréco, and others; the second includes tracks from Guy Béart, Serge Gainsbourg, Jeanne Moreau, and others; the third highlights the poets and lyricists with whom Canetti worked, and features songs with lyrics by Louis Aragon, Marguerite Duras, Norge, and more; and the fourth continues the journey with tracks by Serge Reggiani and others. The DVD includes live clips and interviews featuring Charles Trenet & Johnny Hess, Marlène Dietrich, Duke Ellington, and others. Includes 24-page booklet and poster documenting Canetti's history, as well as his venue The Three Donkeys. Also features Canetti, Henri Salvador, Boris Vian, Magali Noel, Mouloudji, Francis Lemarque, Patachou, Les Freres Jacques, Roche & Aznavour, Catherine Sauvage, Yves Montand, Philippe Clay, Félix Leclerc Et Lucienne Vernay, Jean-Claude Darnal, Raymond Devos, Pierre Dac, Francis Blanche, Jacqueline François, Les Baladins Des Champs Elysées, Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine, Judith Magre, Jean BourbonSarah Boréo, Georges Dor, Cora Vaucaire, Bruno Brel, Les Garçons De La Rue, Eric Robrecht, California Jubilee Singers, Romain Bouteille, Mort Shuman, Michel Legrand, Pierre Delanoë, Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Riva, Zette, Jean-Marie Hummel, Arlette Tephany, Bee Michelin, Marie-José Casanova, Renaud Marx, André Claveau, Nina Corot, Eric Zimmermann, Simone Signoret, Annie Girardot, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charlotte Rampling, Richard Bohringer, Catherine Arditi, Jean-Claude Brialy, Freddy Johnson, La Môme Piaf, Danielle Darrieux En Duo Avec Pierre Mingand, Bix Beiderbecke, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines Avec Jimmie Noone, Henri Garat & Lilian Harvey, Clara Haskil, Agnès Capri, The Galimir Quartet Of Vienna, Mireille, Maurice Chevalier, and Lucienne Delyle. DVD format is European PAL, region free.
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BEC 5772240
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This limited edition of Succés et Confidences includes a 110-minute DVD (PAL all-region format) chronicling the work of legendary French actress and singer Jeanne Moreau, with live archives (TV shows, galas), clips of vocal performances from Moreau's film work, and an interview. The CD features 27 highlights from the Moreau's career. Moreau's work as an actress with such leaders of the French new wave as Louis Malle, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard had already established her iconic status by the time she connected with Jacques Canetti to record her first album in 1964. Her career as a vocalist, however, was still nascent, having just begun to show its potential in her performance of Cyrus Bassiak's song "Le Tourbillon" in Truffaut's 1962 film Jules et Jim. Succés et Confidences includes such classics as "Le Tourbillon," "J'ai la Mémoire Qui Flanche," "La Peau Léon," and "La Vie de Cocagne." CD available without DVD as Succés et Confidences (BEC 5772239, 2015). DVD format is European PAL, region free.
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BEC 5772255
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Jacques Canetti Productions presents the 1967 second album by Serge Reggiani, a central figure in the history of modern chanson whose work ranks among some of the most acclaimed recordings of the genre. This album, recorded with Canetti in 1967, features many of Regianni's most well-loved songs, including "Les loups sont entrés dans Paris," "Sarah," "Le petit garcon," and "Ma solitude." The album also features lyrics by Boris Vian, songwriting credits from Serge Gainsbourg, Jean-Loup Dabadie, and Georges Moustaki, and introductions taken from the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Jacques Prévert. Previously released by Jacques Canetti Productions as a gatefold LP (BEC 5772793, 2014).
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BEC 5772611
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Jacques Canetti Productions presents a set of one 28-song CD and three DVDs (PAL all-region format) chronicling the career of beloved actor and singer Serge Reggiani. Beginning as an actor, Reggiani turned to chanson in 1963 with the help of Jacques Canetti. Accompanied by lyricists Boris Vian, Georges Moustaki, Jean-Loup Dabadie, and Claude Lemesle, among others, he led a distinguished career as an unparalleled actor and singer until his death in 2004. Ses Chansons Côté Scène, Côté Coeur includes a CD with 28 songs recorded between 1969 and 1976, and three previously unreleased DVDs with seven hours of footage. The first DVD includes 49 television and stage performances recorded between 1967 and 1985; the second includes 13 clips and interviews from 1957 through 1969, as well as a tribute to Austrian-born actress Romy Schneider, with whom Reggiani collaborated, with stories, interviews, and clips from 1955 through 1981; the third includes 13 clips from 1970 through 1985, with interviews in which Reggiani tells his story with amazing frankness and tenderness. DVD format is European PAL, region free.
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Jacques Canetti Productions presents a collection of classics from the career of painter, poet, actor, and singer Serge Reggiani. Beginning as an actor, Reggiani turned to chanson in 1963 with the help of Jacques Canetti. Accompanied by lyricists Boris Vian, Georges Moustaki, Jean-Loup Dabadie, and Claude Lemesle, among others, he led a distinguished career as an unparalleled actor and singer until his death in 2004. Toujours includes highlights from Reggiani's repertoire, including "Le petit garçon," "Les loups sont entrés dans Paris," "Ma liberté," "Sarah," songs from Reggiani's first album with lyrics by Boris Vian, plus six previously unreleased tracks. The CD also features a spoken tribute to Reggiani by Patrick Bruel, Isabelle Boulay, Carole Laure, Robert Hossein, and Georges Moustaki, as well as Reggiani's thoughts, in the form of his letters, on Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Simone Signoret, Romy Schneider, Barbara, Boris Vian, Lino Ventura, Michel Piccoli, and his wife Noëlle Adam Reggiani. Also available as a CD+DVD set (BEC 5772257, 2015).
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Jacques Canetti Productions presents a collection of classics from the career of painter, poet, actor, and singer Serge Reggiani. This edition includes a DVD (PAL all-region format) with footage of Reggiani's 1968 performance at Bobino, Paris, as well as a 44-minute 1969 interview, all in Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Beginning as an actor, Reggiani turned to chanson in 1963 with the help of Jacques Canetti. Accompanied by lyricists Boris Vian, Georges Moustaki, Jean-Loup Dabadie, and Claude Lemesle, among others, he led a distinguished career as an unparalleled actor and singer until his death in 2004. The CD includes 14 highlights from Reggiani's repertoire, including "Le petit garçon," "Les loups sont entrés dans Paris," "Ma liberté," "Sarah," and four songs from Reggiani's first album with lyrics by Boris Vian, plus six previously unreleased tracks. The CD also features a spoken tribute to Reggiani by Patrick Bruel, Isabelle Boulay, Carole Laure, Robert Hossein, and Georges Moustaki, as well as Reggiani's thoughts, in the form of his letters, on Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Simone Signoret, Romy Schneider, Barbara, Boris Vian, Lino Ventura, Michel Piccoli, and his wife Noëlle Adam Reggiani. CD available without DVD as Toujours (BEC 5772252, 2015). DVD format is European PAL, region free.
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Born in Italy in 1921, Yves Montand began his career as a professional singer in 1938, at the age of 16. His promising beginning was interrupted by World War II, and he was unable to perform regularly until 1944, when he opened for Édith Piaf. The two became a couple, and toured France in the fall and spring of 1945. Montand began making appearances in French and American films, singing stage favorites from his repertoire, and won acclaim as a serious actor for his lead role in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953). As a singer, he toured the world from 1960 through 1962, performing in America, England, and Japan. He continued to work in cinema throughout the '60s and '70s, and became an international star. His legacy as an actor is well-known, but his contribution to French chanson is equally significant. Talent agent and producer Jacques Canetti, with whom Montand worked, noted that "most of Yves Montand's songs have become classics because he had the intelligence and instinct to choose themes that are timeless." Grands Boulevards collects highlights from Montand's long career, including "Les Feuilles Mortes," "C'est Si Bon," "A Paris," "Le Gamin de Paris," and more.
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"Born in Saint John in 1827 or 2043 (depending on the inspiration of the moment), Brigitte Fontaine, besides the cult singer that everyone knows, is a writer. Actress, playwright, novelist and poet, she tries to reconcile opposites from the beginning of time until the end of time that will never take place. Because life starts now. And now. And now. Is she really here? No. She is, like all true poets, a unique inhabitant of an interior castle to which she occasionally invites visitors, through her books, records, and shows. Her repertoire... reveals its sensitivity in prosody constrained by rules of versification, and, conversely, in the vivid freedom and free verse of prose poems. Some say crazy, eccentric and disturbed. In truth, she bothers because her sensitivity and fragility refer to the extreme center of the human condition; the axis of the world, she said, "is all of us, since all world is the center of the world'" --Benoît Mouchart, author of Brigitte Fontaine, intérieur/extérieur (2008). Jacques Canetti Productions presents a reissue of Brigitte Fontaine's debut album, 13 chansons décadentes et fantasmagoriques, originally released in 1966. Orchestra arranged and conducted by Jimmy Walter. Recorded in March 1966 in Paris by André Touaty.
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Armenian-French singer-songwriter and actor Charles Aznavour was born on May 22, 1924, in Paris. In 1946 he was noticed by Édith Piaf, which led to him recording his first album, Roche et Aznavour, in 1948 with pianist and composer Pierre Roche and producer Jacques Canetti. His career exploded and he released a string of successes, including the songs "Tu t'laisses aller," "Il faut savoir," "Les comédiens," and "For Me Formidable." In the decades since, his repertoire has expanded to hundreds of titles (after recording his eight hundredth song in 2000, he declared, "When I get a thousand, I will stop singing and open a record store"). Jacques Canetti Productions presents an anthology highlighting the best moments in his incredible and prolific career.
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Twenty-four successes by the great songwriter Charles Trenet. Each song is emblematic: "Y'a d'la joie," "La mer," "Je chante," "Que reste-t-il de nos amours," "Le temps des cerises." Includes an exclusive interview with Trenet in which he recites an original poem and discusses his debut with Johnny Hess, his arrival in Paris, his love of painting, his friendships with Antonin Artaud and Maurice Utrillo, and his paintings. "Hearing Trenet was wonderful... I found it so powerful, so perfect, I could not wait." --Jacques Canetti
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Jacque Canetti Productions presents a reissue of Jacques Higelin & Brigitte Fontaine's 1966 album Chansons D'Avant le Déluge. Brigitte Fontaine's partnership with Jacques Canneti had just begun with her debut album, 13 Chansons Décadentes et Fantasmagoriques (BEC 5772226/5772795). This, her second release on Disques Jacques Canetti, heralded the arrival of her highly productive partnership with Jacques Higelin, and remains a cult duet album. Chansons D'Avant le Déluge includes "La grippe" and "Maman j'ai peur," two songs that would go on to become centerpieces of the duo's stage musical Maman j'ai peur. The album features production by Canetti and orchestral arrangements by Jimmy Walter, who also arranged the orchestral parts for Fontaine's debut.
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BEC 5772239
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Twenty-seven highlights from the career of legendary French actress and singer Jeanne Moreau. Moreau's work as an actress with such leaders of the French new wave as Louis Malle, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard had already established her iconic status by the time she connected with Jacques Canetti to record her first album in 1964. Her career as a vocalist, however, was still nascent, having just begun to show its potential in her performance of Cyrus Bassiak's song "Le Tourbillon" in Truffaut's 1962 film Jules et Jim. Succés et Confidences includes such classics as "Le Tourbillon," "J'ai la Mémoire Qui Flanche," "La Peau Léon," and "La Vie de Cocagne." Also includes a 16-page booklet with photos and previously unpublished documents.
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Nineteen classic songs by "la Muse de Saint Germain," many recorded with Jacques Canetti, the producer responsible for her debut. Includes "Si tu t'imagines," "Sous le ciel de Paris," "Les feuilles mortes," "Rue des Blancs-Manteaux," and more. Born in 1927, Juliette Gréco became well known to many of the artists and writers working in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Vian. Her dark beauty and boldness seduced her circle of intellectuals. In 1950, Jacques Canetti produced her first record and arranged for concerts around the world. Si Tu T'Imagines collects highlights from the career of this legend of chanson.
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"Léo Ferré was an unusual and multifaceted character. His path is obviously quite exceptional." --Jacques Canetti. Born into a petty bourgeoisie family in Monaco, Léo Ferré developed an early interest in music. Considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, he occupies a central place in French chanson with lyrics that mingle slang, lyricism, love, and anarchy. L'Homme includes such classics as "Paris Canaille," "La Vie d'Artiste," and "Le Piano du Pauvre."
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Nineteen gems from French national treasure Édith Piaf, many recorded with the producer responsible for her debut, Jacques Canetti. Includes such classics as "La vie en rose," "Padam Padam," "l'Hymne à l'amour," "Les feuilles mortes," "Mon légionnaire," and "Mon amant de la coloniale." Also includes exclusive interviews in which Piaf recounts her debut, her meeting with Marguerite Monnot, Louis Leplée's death, and the story of the song "La vie en rose."
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Seventeen classics by French singer-songwriter and poet Francis Lemarque, including "A Paris," "Bal petit bal," "Le petit cordonnier," and "Toi tu ne ressembles à personne." Also included are exclusive interviews in which Lemarque recounts his childhood and adolescence, his debut, his friendship with Prévert, and his songs, and recites "Complainte de la rue" by Raymond Asso. In a career crowned by several Grands Prix du Disque from the Académie Charles Cros, Lemarque wrote almost 400 songs, many of which now belong to the collective memory of French culture.
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Twenty-two titles among the most prestigious and revealing of French singer-songwriter Georges Brassens's career, recorded mostly by Jacques Canetti: "J'ai rendez-vous avec vous," "La mauvaise réputation," "Chanson pour l'Auvergnat," "Le gorille," "Une jolie fleur"... And, for the first time, two surprising and moving interviews in which Brassens recounts his childhood, his first steps in the business, and his relationship with Canetti, his friend and producer. Born in Sète in 1921, Brassens made his debut in 1952 and went on to record many songs that are now part of French musical heritage.
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Born April 8, 1929 in Schaerbeek, Belgium, Jacques Brel began writing songs at a young age. Later dubbed "The Great Jacques" by Jacques Canetti, he wrote some of the finest works of French chanson before bidding farewell to the stage in 1967. He left behind a legacy of literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs and a large, devoted following. Jacques Canetti Productions presents 20 highlights from this master of the modern chanson.
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