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Music for Mothers Day

Join Jamie for a special edition of Classics Unwrapped this Mothers Day. As well as music played and written by and for Mothers, we’ll be sharing your musical dedications and messages this Mothers Day. So whether you’re social distancing or self isolating, tune in and join us as we come together.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 22 Mar 2020 21:00

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Grandmother's Minuet, Op.68 No.2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Grieg Lyric Pieces.
    • HYPERION.
    • 022.
  • Clémence de Grandval

    Suite (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: Hélène Couvert.
    • Compositrices.
    • Alpha.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    ¸éê±¹±ð°ù¾±±ð

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Scriabin.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Songs my mother taught me

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky. Music Arranger: Heinrich Grünfeld.
    • Dvorak: Cello Concerto Op 104.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Nuns' Chorus (Casanova)

    Music Arranger: Douglas Gamley. Music Arranger: Ralph Benatzky. Singer: Joan Sutherland. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Joan Sutherland - Greatest Hits.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Ae Fond Kiss

    Performer: Mhairi Hall. Music Arranger: Mhairi Hall.
    • Airs.
    • Strath Records.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op 71, No 2 (Finale)

    Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Joseph Haydn: String Quartets.
    • Linn.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Chorus of the Winds (The Tempest Suite No 2)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.
    • Jean Sibelius: Theatre Music.
    • Linn.
    • 15.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Responses for Holy Saturday: O vos omnes

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Aaron Copland

    Nature, The Gentlest Mother

    Performer: André Previn. Author: Emily Dickinson. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • American Songs.
    • DECCA.
    • 2.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Danse macabre

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Performer: Maya Iwabuchi. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Neeme Järvi conducts Saint-Saëns.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    She Borrowed Some of Her Mother's Gold

    Performer: Matthew Trusler. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • Vaughan Williams: Stars Of The Night.
    • Albion Records.
  • Hans Zimmer

    Vide cor meum

    Composer: Patrick Cassidy. Singer: Danielle de Niese. Singer: Bruno Lazzaretti. Orchestra: Lyndhurst Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Greenaway.
    • Zimmer: Hannibal.
    • DECCA.
    • 12.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat, Op 19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Elizabeth Sombart. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Vallet.
    • Beethoven Piano Concertos.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Amy Beach

    Rosemary and Rue (From Grandmother's Garden, Op 97)

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Piano Music By Amy Beach.
    • Guild.
    • 18.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture Op.26

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Thieving Magpie (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'Un Matin De Printemps

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: Hélène Couvert.
    • Compositrices.
    • Alpha.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Petit Poucet; Laideronnette (Ma mère l'oye)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Rattle - The CBSO Years.
    • Warner.
    • 11-12.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Mar 2020 21:00