it's an addictive piece.We've just started playing it arranged for recorders....but then I'm easily impressed by antiphonal writing, it should have been arranged for recorders in the first place, so beautiful...

I'm just starting to look at a very simplified piano version - and I love it!

I think I would like it on recorders

It is, of course, possible to do just that. I have often had to do it (albeit reluctantly). BUT IT'S NOT WHAT PACHELBEL wrote. It's not even in the spirit of what he wrote - which is a piece in strict counterpoint. Playing something that "approximates" to his piece is just "dumbed down" music-substitute for the masses.

The Canon & Gigue (together for once) were played on Radio 3 this morning. Very nice too.

Absolutely: the bass line, chord sequence and "some sort of melody" are pretty boring by themselves - if you don't listen to the way the three melodic lines imitate and interweave, you're going to miss the point of the piece. I find that recent (professional) versions of this piece tend to take it so fast that the melody and shape is lost in a flurry of notes, which again, rather defeats Pachelbel's purpose. I love some of the older versions of the Canon. I think it's a beautiful piece and can listen to it over and over. If it comes on Classic fm though, I just switch off because it's always too fast.

that is by far the funniest thing I've heard in ages :-)

(p.s. "Never Ever" by the All Saints is the same as Amazing Grace, mostly)

I really WANT to be able to play this one. I think it's the George Winston arrangement, which I first heard around 15 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nvrGWHij10...feature=related

(I have the sheet music and I try every so often...and FAIL).

tee hee

That link doesn't work.

T-r-y-i-n-g again....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nvrGWHij10...feature=related

Absolutely love this piece, despite some dodgy notes sung by me when we sang it!!! I love how it starts off simple and then builds up until it's just like . Arranged for voices, it's amazing, but only when the sopranos are secure enough with the F - if done right, it's chillingly good, if not, well......

I haven't voted as I neither love nor hate it. It's the kind of well known piece my piano pupils sometimes ask to play and I usually give them a version that is OK for their particular level.

More of a period performance. For those who really are well and truly sick of it: DON'T Click on the Link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0

Love it or hate it, I have known the serious thrash metal lot to lend their ears upon hearing it. I can't ever recall them doing that to Chopin, Mozart or even Bach!