This group of musicians is having fun with Canon in D by Pachelbel (1653-1706).
It is considered to be Pachelbel's most famous pieces of music.
Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer and organist and is best remembered for his Canon in D, which is often heard at weddings. He wrote a considerable number cantatas for the Lutheran church, hymn settings, and chamber sonatas for various instruments, especially the violin.
The Mozart Group uses a range of items to make music, whilst playing well-known tunes.
Try this at home with a balloon.
Can you play part of a song? Try a simple tune, perhaps a nursery rhyme.
What do you think of this partial rendition of The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, and then Habanera, (most famously sung by Maria Callas 2:03) from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet (1838-1875)?
Bizet, who was a heavy smoker, died of a heart attack aged 36, three months after the première of Carmen, unaware that his opera would become a spectacular and enduring success. His other works also began to be performed more frequently in the 20th century and he is now recognised as a composer of brilliance and originality.
