Canteloube: L'arada & Chants de France Karen Coker Merritt & Sean Kennard

• Joseph Canteloube (1879 - 1957): L'arada:
• 1Canteloube: L'arada: No. 1, Los lauraires05:07
• 2Canteloube: L'arada: No. 2, La canson dels boiers04:19
• 3Canteloube: L'arada: No. 3, La mosada03:44
• 4Canteloube: L'arada: No. 4, L'ibèrnada03:52
• 5Canteloube: L'arada: No. 5, Mal sosc03:52
• 6Canteloube: L'arada: No. 6, Lauraires e trobaires03:07
• Chants de France, Series 1:
• 7Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 1: No. 1 Auprès de ma blonde (Ronde d'île de France)03:56
• 8Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 1: No. 2 Où irai-je me plaindre? (Chant de Haut-Dauphiné)03:53
• 9Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 1: No. 3 Aou prat dé la roso/Au pré de la rose (Ronde d'Albert et Gascogne)01:43
• 10Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 1: No. 4 Montanyas regaldas/Délicieuses cȋmes (Chant de Roussillon)03:38
• 11Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 1: No. 5 Réveillez-vous (Chant de Guyenne et Languedoc)04:02
• 12Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 1: No. 6 D'ound v'enanatz, filheto?/D'où venez-vous, fillette? (Chant de Provence)02:08
• Chants de France, Series 2:
• 13Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 2: No. 1 Quoand jou n'èri amourousete/Lorsque j'étais tant amoureuse03:10
• 14Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 2: No. 2 L'autre jour, en voulant danser (Rondeau de Gascogne)01:21
• 15Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 2: No. 3 Dodo, Nanette (Berceuse de Vendée)04:43
• 16Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 2: No. 4 Quand la Marie s'en va-t-à l'iau (Ronde du Poitou)01:35
• 17Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 2: No. 5 Il était un' fregate (Ronde de la Saintogne)04:14
• 18Canteloube: Chants de France, Series 2: No. 6 Moué, quand j'étais chez mon père/La danse des gorets (Ronde de l'Anjou)03:21
• Total Runtime01:01:45

Info for Canteloube: L'arada & Chants de France

French composer Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957) made a life's work of collecting, transcribing, and arranging folksongs. His Chants d'Auvergne has long been very popular. Much of the rest of his songs, though, have been unjustly neglected. Among these, L'arada emerges as a particularly intriguing work. A native of North Carolina, Dr. Coker-Merritt received her Master of Music degree from UNC-Greensboro, and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance at Florida State University. She began her professional operatic career with Pittsburgh Opera, studying as an apprentice with opera legends Renata Scotto, Régine Crespin and Renée Fleming. She made her professional operatic debut with Baltimore Opera in 2003. Sean Kennard has won top prizes in the Queen Elisabeth Competition (Belgium), the International Music Competition of Viña del Mar (Chile), the Vendome International Piano Competition (Portugal), the Sendai International Music Competition (Japan), the Hilton Head International Piano Competition (USA), the National Chopin Competition, the Iowa Piano Competition, the American Pianists Association, and the International Chopin Competition of the Pacific.

Karen Coker Merritt, soprano
Sean Kennard, piano

Karen Coker Merritt
A native of North Carolina, Karen Coker Merritt received her Master of Music degree from the University of NC at Greensboro, and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance at Florida State University. She began her professional operatic career with Pittsburgh Opera, studying as an apprentice with opera legends such as Renata Scotto, Régine Crespin, and Renée Fleming. She made her professional operatic debut with Baltimore Opera in 2003. International engagements have included a tour of England with Opera North of the UK’s production of Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus, starring as Venus. She reprised this role at the Ravenna Festival in Italy, and at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. She has performed in numerous oratorio, recital and concert engagements throughout New York City, and starred as Rosalinda in Opera New York’s Off-Broadway production of Tales from the Manhattan Woods. Her recent performances include the roles of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, and Love Simpson in Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree, coached by the composer himself. Dr. Merritt currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at Stetson University, where she joined the faculty in 2016.

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