Music as a mirror of history

Music and history: Madrigals and maps

Handel: Water music

Mozart: The abduction from the harem

Haydn: Mass in the time of war

Beethoven: The farewell sonata

Beethoven: Wellington's victory

Berlioz/de L'Isle: La Marseillaise

Chopin: Etude in C minor, op.10, no. 12

Glinka: A life for the tsar

Strauss Sr.: Radtszky march

Brahms: Piano quartet in G minor, op. 25

Gottschalk: The Union

Verdi: Nabucco

Wagner: The Ring

Dvorak: From the new world symphony

Balakirev: Symphony no. 1

Janacek: Piano sonata I.X.1905

Rimsky-Korsakov: The golden cockerel

Holst: Ode to death

Berg: Wozzeck

Shostakovitch: Symphony no. 13

Copland: Symphony no. 3

Gorecki: Symphony no. 3

Crumb: Black angels.