Drunk and tearing up a little over the sheer beauty of this...

[Aristus]

They rushed it a little, but what do I care?...

[cilla4progress]

1. Longtime favorite!

[Aristus]

2. All-time favorite for me...

Nothing else even comes close...

[cilla4progress]

3. I also love...

Crud ... can't recall the name right now! It's a Yoyoma classic. I'm sure you know it.

Strings are so expressive!

[Aristus]

4. This?...

[cilla4progress]

5. YES!!

I KNEW you would know it!!

Used quite a bit in films.

Thank you!!

[Aristus]

6. And TV shows like The West Wing:

[cilla4progress]

7. Interesting!

That show got us through the GWB years.

Little did we know....

[Aristus]

8. I need it now more than ever...

I'm seeing the country I love join the League of Ordinary Nations. (Also a quote from The West Wing...)

[Duppers]

12. THAT!! 💕

I went to sleep listening to this last night!

Once, when boarding the subway near Harvard station in Cambridge, there was a cellist playing this. The acoustics were perfect, my family and I were mesmerized. Tips were in order.
Master and Commander is one of my favorite movies and one reason is the music. Btw, I don't understand folks who don't like a wide variety of music.

[Aristus]

13. Another wonderful piece, this time from 'Master And Commander'.

A little Boccherini...

[Duppers]

15. Love love love that! Thank you!

I bought the whole soundtrack yrs ago ...going to play it today.

"The bird is flightless -it's not going anywhere."

[Aristus]

16. When I saw the film for the first time in 2003, that was the first I'd ever heard this piece.

I thought it was an old English dance or something. When I found out it was Boccherini, I went out and got every Boccherini CD I could find.

[Duppers]

17. That was the first time hubs and I

Had heard it too.

And I don't understand why the movie didn't have better box office and ratings. We loved it!
But guess the general public would've liked it better if it had females exposing their breasts and the ships were power boats in the chase scenes. Some idiot reviewers even complained about the music!!

[Maraya1969]

14. It is Pachelbel's Canon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbel%27s_Canon

Pachelbel's Canon is the common name for an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel in his Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo (German: Kanon und Gigue für 3 Violinen mit Generalbaß) (PWC 37, T. 337, PC 358), sometimes referred to as Canon and Gigue in D or Canon in D. Neither the date nor the circumstances of its composition are known (suggested dates range from 1680 to 1706), and the oldest surviving manuscript copy of the piece dates from the 19th century.

Pachelbel's Canon, like his other works, although popular during his lifetime, went out of style, and remained in obscurity for centuries. A 1968 arrangement and recording of it by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra gained popularity over the next decade, and in the 1970s the piece began to be recorded by many ensembles; by the early 1980s its presence as background music was deemed inescapable.[1] From the 1970s to the late 2010s, elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, were used in a variety of pop songs. Since the 1980s, it has also been used frequently in weddings and funeral ceremonies in the Western world.

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Rediscovery and rise to fame
The Canon (without the accompanying gigue) was first published in 1919 by scholar Gustav Beckmann, who included the score in his article on Pachelbel's chamber music.[7] His research was inspired and supported by early music scholar and editor Max Seiffert, who in 1929 published his arrangement of the Canon and Gigue in his Organum series.[8] However, that edition contained numerous articulation marks and dynamics not in the original score. Furthermore, Seiffert provided tempi he considered right for the piece, but that were not supported by later research.[9] The Canon was first recorded in 1940 by Arthur Fiedler.[10]

In 1968, the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra made a recording of the piece that would change its fortunes significantly.[1] This rendition was done in a more Romantic style, at a significantly slower tempo than it had been played at before, and contained obligato parts, written by Paillard, that are now closely associated with the piece.[1] The Paillard recording was released in June in France by Erato Records as part of an LP that also included the Trumpet Concerto by Johann Friedrich Fasch and other works by Pachelbel and Fasch, all played by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra. The canon was also included on a widely distributed album by the mail-order label Musical Heritage Society in 1968.

[912gdm]

9. they did a phenomenal performance

[Aristus]

10. They did...

[fierywoman]

11. No chin rests! The tempo to me was fine. I've played it much faster -- and much slower!

[wendyb-NC]

18. Thank you for posting.

That was so beautiful and sweet.

I've always loved Pachelbels Canon in D Major.

[sakabatou]

19. And then you have detractors

[Aristus]

20. I've loved this video for years! It's hilarious!

Before I saw this, I never knew how many modern pop songs have the same structure and chord progression as the Canon.

[llmart]

21. I've always loved this song.

My daughter walked down the aisle to it at her outdoor wedding which was on a perfect June day. I now love the song even more because it brings back memories of her special day.

I agree with you that it's a bit too fast.