The One-Hit Wonder Connection
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"The Sorcere's Apprentice," from Walt Disney's Fantasia
In the pop music world, a “one-hit wonder” usually refers to singers who have only one top-40 hit.
One can see something like that in classical music, as well—although in this case, it’s a composer known almost entirely for a single work—no matter how much other music they may have written.
And there’s probably no better examples than Johann Pachelbel and his famous Canon, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas. In this hour, we hear both, plus works by both composers that deserve to be better known.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Danse Macabre |
Montreal Symphony, Nagano |
Decca 483 0396 |
028948303960 |
| Pachelbel: Canon |
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood |
Decca 443 201-2 |
028944320121 |
| Pachelbel Canon, etc. |
Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard |
Erato 4509-98475-2 |
745099847524 |
| Pachelbel: Un orage d’avril |
Gli Incogniti, Amandine Beyer |
Harmonia Mundi HMC 902238 |
3149020223826 |
| Pachelbel: Organ Works, Vol IV - Chorale Preludes [for “A Mighty Fortress”] |
Marilyn Mason |
Musical Heritage Society 513276H |
717794327625 |
| Pachelbel Vespers |
King's Singers, Kah-Ming Ng cond. |
Signum SIGCD 198 |
635212019825 |
| Albinoni Adagio, Pachelbel Canon, etc. |
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
Deutsche Grammophon 429 390-2 |
028942939028 |
| Paul Dukas [for Symphony in C and La Peri] |
National Orchestra of France, Leonard Slatkin |
RCA Red Seal 68802 |
090266880225 |
| Paul Dukas: Ouvres pour Piano, track 8 [for Variations, Interlude and Finale on a theme of Rameau] |
Herve Billaut |
Mirare MIR242 |
3760127222422 |
