This was the piece that launched me into classical music. When I arrived in England for the first time, over twenty years ago, I had no idea about what we call 'classical' music. As a university student in accommodation, I couldn't afford a television, but my father gifted me with an old AM/FM radio. How large it was, compared to the tiny radios we have today. But, when I set the dial to Classic FM, I hardly moved it again. And I remember thinking that this sounded like heaven:
A little about the seventeenth-century, one-hit German wonder, Iohann Pachelbel. He did, of course, write other pieces, both religious and secular, and was a well-known organist and teacher. But most people today remember him for this one, and this one only. Anyhow, I'm going to play it again.
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