Coming to you from our email inbox, here's an episode of music requested by you the listener! These three works are iconic, but leave your preconceived notions at the door and prepare to hear them in a new way. Plus, we also do a little Q&A at the end of the show. 

Show Notes

Music featured in this episode

Johan Pachelbel - Canon and Gigue in D Major, P 37

The "Romantized" version that launched this piece to 20th-century fame.

This one is closer to how Pachelbel would have heard it, more upbeat in a Baroque style.

Franz Liszt - Liebestraum No. 3

After listening to the episode, listen at 4:18 in the video above for the start of the coda.

Below is an excerpt from the poem that inspired this music by Liszt (read it all here)

O love as long as love you can,

O love as long as love you may,

The time will come, the time will come

When you will stand at the grave and mourn!



Be sure that your heart burns,

And holds and keeps love

As long as another heart beats warmly

With its love for you



And if someone bares his soul to you

Love him back as best you can

Give his every hour joy,

Let him pass none in sorrow!

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending