In 1875, Tchaikovsky wrote 12 short music pieces, each one for each month of the year, also inspired by Russian poems and scenes of nature and Russian life.
One would imagine that the music for June would be sunny, joyful and optimistic but it is the exact opposite: sad and melancholic.
The music depicts a scene of a beautiful summer beach under the glowing stars. The score contains this epigraph by nineteenth century Russian poet, Alexey Nikolayevich Plescheev:
Let us go to the shore;
there the waves will kiss our feet.
With mysterious sadness
the stars will shine down on us.
Imagine you are part of this magic scenery.