sun 8 may 2022 11:00 hour
Doing it for Mum
and everyone can listen in
Mother’s Day
For this special day, a diverse selection of songs for mother, from mother, by mother and about mother.
Playlist:
- Hendrik Andriessen – ‘Crucifixion’ from: Miroir de Peine – lyrics: Henri Ghéon
Elly Ameling, soprano and Albert de Klerk, organ - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – ‘Ave Maria’
Ruth Ziesak, soprano and Gerold Huber, piano - Bertha Wegener-Koopman – ‘Stabat Mater’ from: Vier Lieder
Ingrid Kapelle, soprano and Miklos Schwalb, piano - Maarten Kooy – ‘Mein Jüdisch Kind’ – lyrics: Hadasa Rubin
Susanne Weide and Kees Paasen, violin - Benedict Weisser (arrangement) – ‘Mayn Yiddische Mama’
Ben-Zion Miller, Alberto Mizrahi, Naftali Herstik
Nederlands Theater Orkest conducted by Jules van Hessen - Hanns Eisler – ‘Mutter Beimlein’ – lyrics: Bertold Brecht
Eisler Trio (soprano, guitar and cello) - Hanns Eisler – ‘Mein Sohn, was immer auch aus dir werde’
from: 4 Wiegenlieder für Arbeitermütter – lyrics: Bertold Brecht.
Anne Dammers, vocals and René Veen, piano - Dmitri Shostakovich – ‘My son is the sweetest in the world’ (Kolibelnaya)
From: Jewish People poetry op.79a
Nathalie Stuzmann, alto. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Neeme Järvi - Johannes Brahms – ‘Ach Moder, ich will en Ding han’
Soprano Elly Ameling and pianist Norman Shetler - Johannes Brahms – ‘Die Trauernde’ from: Sechs Lieder op.7
Baritone Evert Jan Nagtegaal and pianist Noël Lee - Young/Olcott/Ball – ‘Mother Machree’ (Irish)
Tenor John McCormack (Historical recording) - Paolo Tosti – ‘Ohè! Mamma’ – lyrics: Raffaele Petrosemolo
Mezzo soprano Mariana Gentile and Isabella Crisante, piano - Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski – Sleep my child, go to sleep now’ op.16 no.1 (Kolibehaya) – lyrics: Apollo Maikov
Joan Rodgers, soprano and Roger Vignoles, piano - Geza Frid – ‘Cradle Song’ from: Nursery rhymes op.53 – lyrics: Annie M.G. Schmidt
Erna Spoorenberg, soprano and Rinus Groot (live recording) - Robert Schumann – ‘An meinen Herzen’ from: Frauenliebe und – leben op.44 no.7 – lyrics: Adalbert von Chamiso
Alto Janet Baker and Daniël Barenboim - Charles Ives – ‘Songs my mother taught me’
lyrics: Adolf Heyduk, narrator: N. MacFarren
Baritone Charles van Tassel and Marien van Nieukerken - Gu Jian-Feng – ‘Zhu Guang Li De Ma Ma’ (Mum by Candlelight)
lyrics: Wang Jian and Li Chunli
Tenor Jingma Fan and Reinild Mees, piano - Richard Strauss – ‘Muttertändelei’ op.43 no.2 – lyrics: Gottfried Bürger
Janet Baker, alto. London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult - H.T. Burleigh (arrangement) – ‘Sometimes I feel like a motherless Child’
Derek Lee Ragin, male alto and Moses Hogan, piano - Carl Nielsen –‘ Solen Er Saa Rød, Mor’
Merete Hjortsö, soprano and Kaja Bundgaard, piano
Poems:
The Mother’ – Geerten Gossaert
The earthworm and his mother’ – Annie M.G. Schmidt
The mother woman’ – Martinus Nijhof