Scott Chamberlain on Mask of the Flower Prince has his own list of ten pieces of Mother’s Day music – for the imperfect mother in your life:
Barber: Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance. Medea is the star of Western Civilization’s earliest custody-battle-gone-horribly-awry soap opera. Furious that her louse of a husband is taking their kids to live with a new trophy wife, Medea decides a little infanticide will even the score. It’s a story with something for everyone in the family.
Cherubini: Medea. A follow-up to the above entry, because sometimes a 12-minute work about a mother killing her children isn’t enough, and you really need a full-blown opera to do the story justice.
He also includes links to the music. G’wan – you know you want to!
