A single recording in the 1970s rescued the 300-year-old composition from obscurity.

German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel was widely popular during his lifetime, seeing success from his many works. He is best known today for the Canon in D, a piece with a chequered past and no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, is the birthday (or at least the baptism day) of another pilgrim: Charles Theodore Pachelbel (1690-1750). He was the son of Johann Pachelbel, German composer and organist, ...