Pachelbel Greatest Hits
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Composer: Johann PachelbelComposer: Tomaso Albinoni
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Composer: Charles Theodore Pachelbel
Composer: Henry Purcell
Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Brass Ensemble
Performer: Canadian Brass
Performer: Washington Chamber Soloists
Performer: Budapest Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra
Performer: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Performer: English Chamber Orchestra
Performer: Columbia Chamber Symphony
Performer: Middle German Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Performer: Anthony Newman
Performer: Raymond Leppard
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Performer: Gustav Leonhardt
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-10-29
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Canon
- Choral 'Alle Menschen mussen sterben '
- Adagio
- Allegro assai
- Water Music: Menuet
- Water Music: Alla Hornpipe
- Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
- Autumn - The Four Seasons: Allegro
- The Harmonious Blacksmith
- Magnificat
- Chorale partita 'Werde Munter, Mein Gemute'
- Goldberg Variations: Aria da capo
- Trumpet Tune And Ayre
- Manificat-Fuge No. 5 In F Major: Manificat-Fuge No. 5 In F Major (quinti toni)
- 'Music For The Royal Fireworks': La Rejouissance
- Magnificat-Fuge No. 10: Magnificat-Fuge No. 10 (sextitoni)
- Guitar Concerto In D Major, RV 93: Allegro glusto
- Magnificat-Fuge No. 13: Magnificat-Fuge No. 13 (octavi toni)
- 'Te Deum': Introduction
- Choral Prelude ' Von Himmmel Hoch, da komm ich hier'
- Cantata No. 140: Sleepers Awake
- Cantata No. 140: Sleepers Awake
- Messiah: ' Hallelujah'
Music reviews of Pachelbel Greatest Hits
Music Review: Doesn't quite live up to its title
Rating: 3 Stars
The title of this CD, Pachelbel - Greatest Hits, is a misnomer. First, less than a third of the selections are by Johann Pachelbel, the German organist and composer of about a generation-and-a-half before J.S. Bach, whose Canon for strings and continuo was a mega runaway hit when it was reintroduced to the world in the early 1970s in the recording made by the Paillard Chamber Orchestra (still the reference performance in my opinion). The album might be better called Pachelbel and His Successors, as it contains works by Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, among others. Most of the works are baroque chestnuts that are familiar to anyone previously exposed to classical music. Many are excerpts from larger works, which begs the question: Why this compilation? Frankly, I cannot give you an answer. This collection, while including selections from such well-known works as Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and the Fireworks Music, Water Music and Messiah of Handel, also contains a lot of music that is as obscure as the composers who wrote it. What's more, the versions presented here aren't orthodox: Pachelbel's now famous Canon is performed not by a string ensemble but the Canadian Brass; the Hallelujah Chorus is sung in German, rather than in the English of the original Messiah. These quirks render this assemblage of interest only to those who are already familiar with these pieces and won't mind listening to them again but in different clothing. For the uninitiated, there are better collections of baroque hits. For those interested in the masterworks from which excerpts are packaged here, they would be best advised to seek recordings of the complete Brandenburgs or Goldberg Variations or Four Seasons. As for poor Pachelbel, his greatest hits really boil down to just one work: that Canon. Not that his music isn't worth investigating, but he is, in the final analysis, a minor figure, known to us today (aside from professional organists) only because of the accident of the Paillard recording and the music's use in the film Ordinary People. I bought this CD in a rush because I needed it for a podcast [...] in which I wanted to include Bach's Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29. For my own interest, if I had not been in such a panic, I would have preferred to have bought a recording of the entire cantata. With those caveats, Pachelbel - Greatest Hits is pleasant if unusual listening. The performances, all taken from the Columbia/Sony Classical archives, are good and the recorded sound decent. I would recommend this CD only to those who are already very familiar with the more famous among these works and wouldn't mind listening to different versions during, say, Sunday brunch.
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