I'm looking for a track of Night on Bald Mountain, recorded by an orchestra (not synthesizer). I know that I can find it on Youtube or Archive.org, but I'd like to get a version that I know is in the clear, not just ripped from a CD without permission.
The best I can find so far are a couple that cost about $50. Not the end of the world, but I figured I'd post here in case anyone has a favorite site for royalty-free or public domain classical music.
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If it's old enough to be featured in Fantasia, then it's very likely in the public domain - depends on where you live. What might be PD in one country might still be under copyright in another.
To clarify, I’m talking about recordings that are in the clear. Performance rights are separate from publishing rights.
So a classical piece written hundreds of years ago is free to perform, but a recording of it from 1940 (Disney’s Fantasia) would not be free to use.