Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: The Ultimate Canon
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Performer: Freddie WashingtonPerformer: Tatsuya Ikeda
Composer: Cleo Laine
Composer: Johann Pachelbel
Composer: George Rochberg
Composer: Dai Sakakibara
Composer: Curtis / Belvin, Jesse Williams
Conductor: Arthur Fiedler
Conductor: Isao Tomita
Conductor: Jean-Fran?ois Paillard
Conductor: John Georgiadis
Performer: Bob Leatherbarrow
Performer: BRR Shakuhachi & Koto Quintet
Performer: James Galway
Performer: Angel Romero
Performer: Clive Carroll
Performer: Jamie Glaser
Performer: Toshiaki Matsumoto
Performer: Paul Nicholson
Orchestra: Arthur Fiedler Sinfonietta
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Canon In D - Jean-Francois Paillanrd Chamber Orchestra
- Canon In D - Munich Radio Orchestra
- Canon (Over A Basso Ostinato) - Peerless 2x2
- Canon Of The Three Stars - Isao Tomita & The Plasma Symphony Orchestra
- How, Where, When? (Canon In D) - Cleo Laine
- Earth Angel - The Hampton String Quartet
- Canon - The Canadian Brass
- Canon In F - BRR (Shakuhachi & Koto Quintet)
- Variations On The Pachelbel Canon In D (From Rochberg, Quartet No. 6) - The Concord String Quartet
- Canon - Clive Carroll
- Canon - Platinum (A Cappella Vocal Ensemble)
- Sweet Home (Based On Pachelbel's Canon) - Dai Sakakibara
- Canon - Angel Romero
- Canon In D - Arthur Fiedler Sinfonietta
- Canon & Gigue In D - Guildhall String Ensemble
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Free Music Review: A rather awful recording
Hit: 2 Stars
I've had the misfortune to hear this CD and all the perversions of Johann Andreas Pachelbel's chamber piece on this CD once too often.
The work was written for three solo violins and basso continuo [violoncello or viola da gamba + organ or harpsichord] and it is a rather virtuoso work, typical of works written for a small group of violins [or cornetti] over an ostinato bass line in the 17th century.
All but one "interpretation" on this CD bares little or no similarity to the written score at all and almost all of the arrangements of the piece are complete kitsch, trash, even. Cleo Laine's "song" is probably the worst example.
So what do we learn about the composer from this CD? Virtually nothing. However, it is instructive to learn how tastelessly a piece of music can be pushed, strained, pummelled, shredded, extracted, decimated, pumped up, deflated, force-fed, mutated and generally exploited by musicians, singers and arrangers who clearly have no knowledge of 17th century music and couldn't care less about acquiring any knowledge of that music.
I work in a music shop and it always amuses me when people who've bought CDs like this one decide to explore Pachelbel's music a little further and discover that they've been completely hoodwinked and that the composer's actual music sounds nothing like any interpretation of the Canon [& Gigue] they've ever heard - except, of course, if they've been fortunate enough to hear Musica Antiqua K?ln's or London Baroque's recordings. They walk away bewildered by the organ music, chamber music and cantatas of J. A. Pachelbel.
Two stars for the one rather pleasant H.I.P. recording on this CD.
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