Music, with the pictures it belongs with

Every recording here is public domain twice over: the composition and the performance. A picture hangs beside a piece for one of four reasons: the music was written after it, it was made for the music, the two share a subject, or they share a meaning. Each pairing says which, and why.

7 pieces, 3:38:22

  1. Symphony No. 6

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    1809, 5 movements, 36:45, 2 pictures

  2. Peer Gynt Suites

    Edvard Grieg

    1875, 4 movements, 14:57

  3. The Creation

    Joseph Haydn

    1799, 32 movements, 1:29:30

  4. The Hebrides

    Felix Mendelssohn

    1833, 11:23, 1 picture

  5. Pictures at an Exhibition

    Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

    1874, 15 movements, 32:26, 7 pictures

  6. Orpheus in the Underworld

    Jacques Offenbach

    1858, 9:23, 2 pictures

  7. Má vlast

    Bedřich Smetana

    1882, 2 movements, 23:59, 2 pictures

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