Pachelbel Canon and Other Baroque Hits
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Composer: Tomaso AlbinoniComposer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Jean-Joseph Mouret
Composer: Johann Pachelbel
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Conductor: Arthur Fiedler
Conductor: Ettore Stratta
Conductor: Harry Rabinowitz
Conductor: James Galway
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
Conductor: Richard Westenburg
Conductor: Rudolf Baumgartner
Performer: English Chamber Orchestra
Performer: I Musici di Zagreb
Performer: Lucerne Festival Strings
Performer: Musica Sacra
Performer: Aurele Nicolet
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-09-06
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Canon
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3: Allegro
- Messiah: Overture
- The Four Seasons: Spring: Allegro (Danza pastorale)
- Orchestral Suite No. 2: Menuet & Badinerie
- Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
- Guitar Concerto in D: Adagio
- Xerxes: Largo
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2: Allegro Assai (Theme From 'Firing Line')
- Orchestral Suite No. 3: Air On The G String
- Royal Fireworks Music: Overture (excerpt)
- Water Music: Hornpipe
- Brandenberg Concerto No. 5: Allegro
- Adagio
- The Four Seasons: Winter: Allegro non molto
- Rondeau (Theme from 'Masterpiece Theatre')
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Free Music Review: A great introduction to Baroque music...
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD contains a great sampling of Baroque music. Some of the best known songs of the period are included. Listeners will likely instantly recognize many of the songs (you've likely heard them before, you just didn't know their names). An excellent rendition of Pachelbel's Canon starts off the CD. Then plenty of music from big names such as Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi fill out the disc's 72 and a half minutes of music.
The demographics of this disc point to an intended mainstream audience. For example, the track listing includes references to which songs served as themes for television shows. For example, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 includes the byline "Theme from 'Firing Line'" and Mouret's Rondeau says "Theme from 'Masterpiece Theater'". So this collection does represent a popular collection of Baroque songs. And it plays that role very well.
Other standout tracks include: 2 movements from Vivaldi's justifiably famous "The Four Seasons", Bach's amazing "Air on the G String" and Handel's "Xerxes". The disc includes no vocal tracks. "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" from Bach's Cantata No. 147 gets performed on a solo organ (the original has vocals and a string arrangement). So those uneasy with "classical style singing" will find no problems here.
All in all, this disc serves as a good introduction to a great period of music history. It could also serve as a starting point for selecting a favorite composer or as a guide for building a classical music collection.
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