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. "I’m really excited…I think we’re going out on a limb, and I truly believe we’re going to break some ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Canon is today instantly recognisable; but, quite unbelievably, it all but disappeared from our musical history for over 200 years. Unfortunately, there is conceivably an entire world of ...

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 ...