Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 4:04pm

Canon in D

 

Something for the weekend.  A nice mild October Saturday after a not uneventful week in the law mines  Time to celebrate with Pachelbel’s Canon in D.  Perhaps the greatest of the middle Baroque composers, Johann Pachelbel enjoyed enormous popularity in his lifetime.  After his death in 1706, with changing fashions in music, he was largely forgotten.  This changed dramatically in 1968 with a recording of Canon D by Jean-Francois Paillard.  Great Art never really ceases to be great Art, it merely slumbers until new audiences appear to appreciate it.

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George Haberberger
George Haberberger
Saturday, October 15, AD 2016 9:17am

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra always performs this piece at their Christmas concerts.
It is beautiful but is not two hours long.

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Saturday, October 15, AD 2016 11:01pm

[…] Byron, Catholic Stand In Defense of the Religious Right – Ross Douthat, The New York Times Canon in D, Pachelbel: Piano and Violin – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic Insulting the Saints – Jean Elizabeth […]

Anna Bucciarelli
Anna Bucciarelli
Sunday, October 16, AD 2016 2:09am

Thank you for both of these. I have heard this lovely music through the years and did not know where it came from, who wrote it or even its name. Now I do and I am grateful to you for this new knowledge and for starting my Sunday morning with such beauty.

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