Mickey Mouse helped make one musical work famous. A piece by another composer owes its fame to a late-night disc jockey and an Oscar-winning movie.
And while the two composers did write other music, it’s pretty much overlooked. They are, in the parlance of the pop music industry, “one-hit wonders."
In this hour, Johann Pachelbel and his famous Canon--and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice of Paul Dukas.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
Title | Group/Artist | Catalog # | UPC |
Danse Macabre | Montreal Symphony, Nagano | Decca 483 0396 | 028948303960 |
Pachelbel: Canon | Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood | Decca 443 201-2 | 028944320121 |
Pachelbel Canon, etc. | Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard | Erato 4509-98475-2 | 745099847524 |
Pachelbel: Un orage d’avril | Gli Incogniti, Amandine Beyer | Harmonia Mundi HMC 902238 | 3149020223826 |
Pachelbel: Organ Works, Vol IV - Chorale Preludes [for “A Mighty Fortress”] | Marilyn Mason | Musical Heritage Society 513276H | 717794327625 |
Pachelbel Vespers | King's Singers, Kah-Ming Ng cond. | Signum SIGCD 198 | 635212019825 |
Albinoni Adagio, Pachelbel Canon, etc. | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon 429 390-2 | 028942939028 |
Paul Dukas [for Symphony in C and La Peri] | National Orchestra of France, Leonard Slatkin | RCA Red Seal 68802 | 090266880225 |
Paul Dukas: Ouvres pour Piano, track 8 [for Variations, Interlude and Finale on a theme of Rameau] | Herve Billaut | Mirare MIR242 | 3760127222422 |