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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Loved Part of It, December 20, 2003
Pachelbel's Canon in D is my very favorite piece of music, so when I received this CD as an "early Christmas present" I was really happy.I absolutely fell in love with the first track, which is beautifully performed by the Festival Strings Lucerne. I am a great fan of Baroque music played on Baroque instruments, so I also loved track eight, performed by the Baroque Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Ettore Stratta. I didn't think I would like track two, which is a flute rendition by James Galway. Although it does make the Canon sound more Celtic than German Baroque, I did like it, probably because I'm a big fan of woodwinds. I did think the inclusion of two tracks by James Galway was one track too many, though. I'm not a big fan of brass instruments, nevertheless, track three, performed by The Canadian Brass was lovely and they did stick to the melody of the Canon, rather then going off on tangents. Track four, variations of the Canon performed by the Concord String Quartet was a surprise to me. I thought I would love it because I love string quartets, but the variations were just "too varied" and they made Pachelbel's Canon, at its heart, uplifting and joyous, sound more like a funeral dirge. Tracks five, six and seven I found rather horrifying. They are all more or less "New Age" renditions of the Canon and, as such, simply unacceptable to me. Especially horrid was track five, which contains, of all things, a vocal. Cleo Laine has a very nice voice, but Pachelbel's Canon simply does not contain a vocal! I thought about giving this CD three stars, but I felt that would be doing a disservice to tracks one and eight, especially, which in my mind, are flawless.
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~ Michael Maxwell
~ Pachelbel: Forever By The Sea
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
~ Tomaso Albinoni
~ Anastasi
