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 ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Everyone has heard the bass line of Pachelbel's canon in D, but far fewer have seen it. That was until ...

Pianists have long played Pachelbel's stately Canon, but Japanese jazz player Hiromi Uehara stands out for her treatment of this classical chestnut. In the version on her new CD, Place to Be, she ...

In our occasional series "What's in a Song," produced by the Western Folklife Center, Alaska fisherman and songwriter John Palmes has Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D" running through his head along ...

Pachelbel's Canon in D is one of the best-known and loved pieces of classical music in the world. It's so well-known it's a surprise when someone plays it so well it sounds brand new again, but that's ...

Johann Pachelbel is unfairly viewed as a one-work composer, that work being the popular, Canon in D major, for three violins and continuo. He was an important figure from the Baroque period who is now ...

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Two music geeks accidentally created this ultimate fusion of high and low culture It starts with a loud, undignified squeak – then another, and another, the squeaks marching together in a strangely ...