Pachelbel - Canon in D Major (Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra)

Pachelbel's classic accompanied by a few of my favorite works of art.
From what I understand Jean-Francois Paillard recorded two arrangements of this. This one is my favorite. It is a bit slower and seems to me to be played with more "feeling". Of course this is just the way I feel, others may feel differently.

Since I am a novice at making videos I have not figured out how to do subtitles so I was not able to label each of the painting but here is the list in order of appearance.

Jacques-Laurent Agasse - The Nubian Giraffe
Johannes Evert Akkeringa - Indian Cress
Francesco Albani - Venus Attended by Nymphs and Cupids
Helen Alingham - Children on a Path Outside a Thatched Cottage, West Horsley, Surrey
Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Lesbia Weeping Over a Sparrow
Paul Cadmus - Bar Italia
Frederic Bazille - Flowers
Sandro Botticelli - The Discovery of the Murder of Holofernes
Francois Boucher - The Marquise de Pompadour
Pietr Bruegal the Elder - The Triumph of Death
Caravaggio - The Cardsharps
John Constable - Boat Passing a Lock
Jan de Heem - Flower Piece
Edgar Degas - Absinthe
Albrecht Durrer - Self Portrait with Fur Collar
Thomas Eakins - Arcadia
El Greco - View of Toledo
Jean-Honore Fragonard - The Love Letter
Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare
Jean-Leon Gerome - Black Bashi-Bazouk
William Holman Hunt - Isabella and the Pot of Basil
Gustav Klimt - The Kiss
Lord Frederick Leighton - Flaming June
Claude Monet - La Japonaise
Gustave Moreau - The Unicorns
Sir Joseph Noel Paton - The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania
Rembrandt - The Jewish Bride
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The Boating Party Lunch
Peter Paul Rubens - Garden of Love
Jacques-Louis David - Sappho and Phaon
Johannes Vermeer - Girl with a Red Hat
Franz Xavier Winterhalter - The Empress Eugenie Surrounded By Her Ladies in Waiting
Eugene Delacroix - Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable

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• Jean-Francois
• Paillard
• Canon
• in
• Major

[gsw55]

I would like to thank you guys for making such wonderful comments. Please share the video with friends and relatives if you so desire.

[Steerpike07]

My favourite version too. Took me over ten years to find out which version this was and the record shop had to import it from France (this was the 1980s). I am pretty sure this is on the Erato label Gravure Universelle STU70468? It has Le Concerto pour Trompette de Fasch on the B-side. I particularly love the harpsichord solo and that plucked violin string sound. Easily the best version.

[gsw55]

I found my copy on a RCA vinyl LP titled "Film Classics" in the early 1980s. It contained several classical music selections from movies and then I found a cd copy of it on the RCA Red Seal label.

[PhantomBentley]

I agree with you. As far as I'm concerned, this is the best version. This is the version that was used in the movie "Ordinary People" with Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. This version talks to your soul.

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[infoqwe]

Jean-François Paillard lo ricordo sin da giovane, conservo ancora LP del 1961 e e questa riproduzione è fedele con suono rotondo tipico del vinile. Fantastica esecuzione. Grazie per la pubblicazione, commovente.

[Idkwutmyusernameis]

This is the best version of this song.

This song is my lullaby...it puts me to sleep when I'm not feeling well. =]

I'm also planning on using this song at my wedding when I'm walking down the isle...many years from now. ^_^

[moeyag58]

My favorite as well, love this....listen....can you hear the oboe in the background...beautiful........­.I can listen to this over and over....I too play it at max volume when driving......have to be carefull though I want to shut my eyes and let it take me away to some beautiful place......

[Smallscousefox]

My favourite piece of music ever ;o) esp.thisversion which is undoubtedly the best

It was played at our wedding + never fails to give me goosebumps!

Love playing it at top volume when I'm driving!

[etenyenhuis1]

definitve version: captures mood, style and depth

[flungingpictures]

@flungingpictures

He taught us that "Pachelbel" should be pronounced like "Bach", the "ch" is like a hard "k", not like "ch" as in "cheat"... and he explain ad infinitum, why he though this IS the BEST version of the Canon.

[flungingpictures]

FYI, in Canada in the 80's CBC's Bob Kerr - may he be many time blessed - used this as his afternoon "Off the Record" - 1-3 - programme's end music:

"Each program began with a warm "Good afternoon, friends," and ended with "A fond good afternoon" over his closing theme, the Pachelbel Canon. "

[bisanzio1000]

If there is a heaven? I do not know ... but I'm sure if there is they have this music.