Interpreted by the King's Singers and Charivari Agréable, this selection of Vespers movements written by the organist Johann Pachelbel have in common the distinctively sonorous scoring of four or five-part choir, accompanied by a six-part string orchestra to which is added, at the composer’s express request, a bassoon.
BBC Music Magazine'For those who know Pachelbel only through the Canon, this album will be revelatory. The music, unearthed and edited by Kah-Ming Ng, comes from a manuscript now in the Bodleian Library. It’s not a com ...
'A fascinating album of Vespers movements by a Thuringian organist of canonic status: Johann Pachelbel. Composed while Pachelbel was organist at Nuremberg's Sebalduskirche, these works conform to the ...