Love it or hate it, Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one of the most famous pieces of classical music of all time, but the facts behind the composition aren’t as well known. Classic FM busts the myths behind ...

The Music: Some news this month, fresh from the dreaming spires of Oxford. It concerns Johann Pachelbel – you know the chap, composer of that beautifully spacious yet understated Canon that rests on ...

Pachelbel's Canon in D meets '90's hip-hop thanks to Coolio, who raps over the baroque melody in his 1997 single "C U When You Get There." The hit song showcases Pachelbel's progression, which ...

What this release – with the Pachelbel Canon, gracefully played, as its obvious draw – certainly creates is a brightly lit shop window for The English Concert’s approach to music of the 17th and 18th ...

Let's face it, the mere mention of Pachelbel's Canon sends shivers down most cellists' spines. No wonder musicians constantly reinvent the piece with greater or lesser degrees of irony. This band ...

Johann Pachelbel, Un orage d’avril; Six Suites from Musikalische Ergötzung et al., Gli Incogniti, Amandine Beyer, Harmonia Mundi HMC 902238 Misreading this present disc’s title as “An Orange in April” ...

The distinctive chirps of singing cicadas are a highlight of summer in regions where they proliferate; those chirps even featured prominently on Lorde’s 2021 album Solar Power. Now, Japanese ...