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Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: The Ultimate Canon | 
| Creators: Freddie Washington, Tatsuya Ikeda, Cleo Laine, Johann Pachelbel, George Rochberg, Dai Sakakibara, Curtis / Belvin, Jesse Williams, Arthur Fiedler, Jean-François Paillard, John Georgiadis, Tomita, Bob Leatherbarrow, BRR Shakuhachi & Koto Quintet, James Galway, Angel Romero, Clive Carroll, Jamie Glaser, Toshiaki Matsumoto, Paul Nicholson, Arthur Fiedler Sinfonietta
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $8.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 5178
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 55307
UPC: 828765530729
EAN: 0828765530729
ASIN: B0000C9JCM
Release Date: September 23, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Canon in D | | • | Canon in D - James Galway, John Georgiadis, Munich Radio Orchestra | | • | Canon (Over a Basso Ostinato) - Peerless 2x2 | | • | Canon of the Three Stars - Tomita, Isao Tomita | | • | How, Where, When? (Canon in D) - James Galway, Cleo Laine | | • | Earth Angel - Hampton String Quartet | | • | Canon - Canadian Brass | | • | Canon in F - Minister Phillip Brritton | | • | Variations on the Pachelbel Canon in D (From Rochberg, Quartet No. 6) - Concord String Quartet | | • | Canon - Clive Carroll | | • | Canon | | • | Sweet Home - Tatsuya Ikeda, Toshiaki Matsumoto, Dai Sakakibara, , Kouichiro Tashiro | | • | Canon - Jamie Glaser, Ashley Irwin, Bob Leatherbarrow, Angel Romero, | | • | Canon in D | | • | Canon & Gigue in D - Guildhall String Ensemble, Paul Nicholson, Robert Salter |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 16
 Great sample of wonderful music. August 16, 2009
Review it or not (USA)
You may be one of the millions of people who have heard this music but have no idea what it's called. "Canon in D" has been played at many, if not most, weddings. It is simply beautiful music. But it is so much more than wedding music. It is extremely relaxing, can help you focus, and melts away the stress. You can take a 5 minute stress break by listening to Canon in D anytime you want at CanonInD . com. Some people consider it the first "pop" song because the canon pattern of the music has influenced so many pop songs. If you listen to the samples, you WILL recognize it. It's not nearly as repetitive to listen to as you might think a CD full of the same song would be. Love the Canon! There is a reason Canon in D can inspire so many compilations.
Really Feel Good Music February 24, 2009
Laurie B (Huntington Beach, CA)
Not sure what it is about this music, but it truly makes you feel great. My Mom loves it and bought it for my birthday as well.
I can just listen to it forever. I am not a classical music connoiseur, and love it just the same. A great CD to add to your collection.
Simply lovely October 2, 2008
Lisa R. Jakobs (Germany)
I can listen to any Pachabel collection, but this one is great. I play it over and over & can never get sick of it!
 Not for lovers of the 18th Century classics August 30, 2008
Lawrence P. Jakobi (Palmdale, CA USA)
For those of us that truly appreciate the beauty of 18th Century music played on period instruments or modern orchestra instruments, this CD is not for us. I was very disappointed at the interruption presented with modern electronic instruments and modern vocal interpretations, none of which are identified in the product description. I also purchased Pachelbel Canon by Tomaso Albinoni, English Anonymous, Johann Sebastian Bach at the same time which I highly recommend and rate as 5 stars.
A rather awful recording February 24, 2008
Steven Guy (Croydon, South Australia)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
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 Köln'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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