Musique en Wallonie
Musique en Wallonie is a Francophone-Belgian classical music record label founded in 1971, dedicated to promoting awareness of Wallonia's musical heritage – both of Wallon composers and historical classical music recordings. The record label is a non-profit association, association sans but lucratif, based at the University of Liége and receives support from the cultural section of the Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles. On the occasion of its 40th Anniversary the label was awarded officier du Mérite wallon in September 2012. The président of the label since 2001 is Jean-Pierre Smyers, and the current administrator is Christophe Pirenne, a rock-drummer as well as a music writer. For many years the label issued through collaborating record companies – notably under contract with Cyprès but also with labels such as Koch-Schwann. Since 2004 the label has undertaken projects on its own imprint, including reissues.
The historiques collection includes historical recordings by Walloon singers such as sopranos Huberte Vecray, Clara Clairbert, contralto Lucienne Delvaux tenors René Maison, Marcel Claudel and Fernand Faniard baritones Jean Noté, Ernest Tilkin Servais, Louis Richard and Hector Dufranne, and bass Lucien Van Obbergh.
Aside from strictly "classical" music the label has also undertaken projects related to the history of popular music, such as recordings by the salon ensemble the Tivoli Band under Éric Mathot, Magritte’s Blues, Bruxelles kermesse – Exposition universelle de 1910 and Café Liégeois, Musiques de salon .
