Matthew Owens’s first album of Pachelbel’s organ works from The Queen’s College, Oxford (10/21) was praised for his sensitive insights into a hitherto neglected facet of this highly skilled and ...
The distinctive chirps of singing cicadas are a highlight of summer in regions where they proliferate; those chirps even featured prominently on Lorde’s 2021 album Solar Power. Now, Japanese ...
Poor old Johann Pachelbel. Forever associated with just one work, the (now somewhat hackneyed) Canon in D, he has tended, sadly, to be overlooked among the late 17th-century ‘greats’. Yet he was a ...