When originally released as a record (vinyl) this CD was simply called "Greatest Hits of 1720" but it was spruced up into "Super Hits of 1720" for its present incarnation on CD. A beautiful performance and a precious recording that disappears and just leaves the music
Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major is one of the most beautiful pieces of classical music ever written. If you haven't heard it then you are truly blessed as you have yet to experience something sublime. The melody of this piece will stay with you and become part of your psyche. I will never forget the first time I ever heard it. I was at my brother’s house with my whole extended family and he put it on his phonograph. Midway through I was overcome by the music and began weeping and had to get up and leave the room. This never happened to me in a room of people before or since. Perhaps most affecting piece of classical music ever written.
Albinoni's Adagio is up there with Pachelbel's Canon as one of the half dozen most beautiful, lush, and heartbreaking pieces of classical music. Fortunately this album contains both compositions in great performances. The Adagio is often used in tragic or ceremonial occasions where music needs to soothe some great grief. You have to have a hard heart indeed for this music not to affect you. However although attributed to Albinoni, the Adagio was actually written by Remo Glazotto, an Albinoni biographer in 1958.
Bach's Air on the G string and the other selections on this CD were also chosen because of their current popularity (rather than 1720's) and so will also be familiar to most people. Why this is not the best selling classical cd ever recorded is beyond me.
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