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Monday with Ian Skelly - Lucy Worsley, Molucca Beans

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus historian and presenter Lucy Worsley talks about her cultural inspirations.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this week the historian, author and presenter Lucy Worsley talks about the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.

3 hours

Music and featured items

  • Francis Poulenc

    Rag-Mazurka (Les biches)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Rite of Spring.
    • Signum.
    • 20.
  • Charlie Chaplin

    Modern Times - Opening, Assembly Line

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Brock.
    • CPO.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    O magnum mysterium

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Missa Hodie Christus Natus Est etc....
    • HYPERION.
    • 11.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana - Norman, Giacomini.
    • Philips.
  • Robert Schumann

    Concertstuck in F major Op.86 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Roger Montgomery. Performer: Gavin Edwards. Performer: Susan Dent. Performer: Robert Maskell. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonies: Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    L'Amour est le dieu de la paix (Anacr茅on)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Les Paladins. Conductor: J茅r么me Corr茅as.
    • Le Triomphe De L'Amour.
    • Naive.
    • 3.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style, for solo viola, harpsichord and strings: no.2 The rose garden by moonlight

    Performer: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 - no.1

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 - Symphonic Dances.
    • Lso Live.
    • 204.
  • Time Traveller: Molucca Bean

    Duration: 02:24

  • Robert Farnon

    Jumping Bean

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata in four parts no.9 in F major Z.810 'Golden'

    Performer: Neville Marriner. Performer: Granville Jones. Performer: Peter Gibbs. Performer: Desmond Dupr茅. Performer: George Malcolm.
    • VANGUARD.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Dies Natalis (The Salutation)

    Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.
  • Nino Rota

    The Godfather- Love theme

    Orchestra: Unnamed Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Savina.
    • Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from The Godfather.
    • MCA.
    • 7.
  • Richard Wagner

    Good Friday Music (Parsifal)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • TELDEC.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Bagatelle Op.47 no.2

    Performer: G谩bor Ormai. Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Cultural Inspirations: Lucy Worsley on her piano teacher

    Duration: 03:01

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 16 in C major, K 545

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laetatus sum

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Duke Ellington

    Sophisticated Lady

    Music Arranger: Luther Henderson. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 303.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto 脿 5 in C major, Op 9 No 5

    Performer: Pierre Pierlot. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • Albinoni: Oboe and Violin concertos.
    • WARNER Apex.
  • Franz Schubert

    Im Abendrot, D799

    Performer: Michael Gees. Singer: Christoph Pr茅gardien. Singer: Julian Pr茅gardien.
    • Challenge.
  • Steve Reich

    Duet for 2 violins and strings

    Ensemble: The Smith Quartet.
    • Different Trains.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op.65 no.6

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Grieg Lyric Pieces.
    • Hyperion.
    • 21.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: Ma M猫re l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.

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