Something for the weekend. Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel. This is the 1968 performance conducted by Jean-François Paillard that single-handedly rescued this grand piece of music from the obscurity of centuries.
Canon in D Major
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
This was THE piece of music that spurred an interest in me to search out more of what is generally called “classical” music when I was a young lad and thoroughly immersed in Hendrix, Cream, Ten Years After et al. I finally settled on Baroque.
One of the pieces we had played at our wedding.