Margreet van Gunsteren sings Selected Songs (1979)

Описание: The mezzo-soprano sings twelve songs with pianist Peter Beyersbergen van Henegouwen. Taken from a radio broadcast in 1979.

Felix Mendelssohn: "Minnelied im Mai", op. 8, no. 1 0:00

Robert Schumann:
"Du bist wie eine Blume", op. 25, no. 24 1:34
"Das verlassene Mägdelein", op. 64, no. 2 3:21
"Er ist's!", op. 79, no. 23 5:11

Hugo Wolf:
"Das velassene Mägdlein" 6:37
"Er ist's!" 10:06
"Mignon II" (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt) 11:32

Pyotr Tchaikovsky: "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt", op. 6, no. 6 14:12

Edvard Grieg: "Prinsessen" (Es saß die Prinzessin im Frauengemach), EG 133 17:28

Gerald Finzi: "It was a lover and his lass", op. 18, no. 5 20:28

Claude Debussy:
"C'est l'extase" 23:13
"Il pleure dans mon cœur" 26:02

Link to my playlist for Margreet Jonkers-van Gunsteren:    • Margreet Jonkers-van Gunsteren (b. 1945)  

Dutch mezzo-soprano. Born Margreet van Gunsteren in Noordwijk aan Zee. She contracted polio as a baby at eleven months and became largely paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. She studied voice with Jaap Stroomenbergh and Sophia van Sante, French mélodies with Pierre Bernac, and German repertoire with Erik and Ady Werba.