1. Dvorák: Songs My Mother Taught Me
This cherished piece from Dvorák's Gypsy Songs cycle is a lyrical hommage to the passing of tradition from mother to child. Here it is performed by Dame Joan Sutherland in English translation: Songs my mother taught me, In the days long vanished; Seldom from her eyelids Were the teardrops banished. Now I teach my children, Each melodious measure. Oft the tears are flowing, Oft they flow from my memory's treasure.
2. Mamma - Beniamino Gigli (1940)
The great Italian tenor proves he is the ultimate mummy's boy in this classic performance.
3. My Yiddishe Momme
Jack Yellen and Lew Pollack's timeless Yiddish tribute to mothers was first sang by Sophie Tucker in 1925 after the death of her own mother. It has been performed in countless arrangements, few as moving as violinist Itzahk Perlman's.
4. Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben
This beautiful lied from Schumann's feminist song cycle Frauenliebe und -leben (A Woman's Life and Love) relates the joys of motherhood from a woman's perspective. In An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust (At My Heart, At My Breast) a young mother rocks her newborn to sleep.
5.Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, 5. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (Klemperer)
勃拉姆斯特为母亲写成的声乐作品。
6.阎维文-母亲
