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Ravi Shankar Discography
Ravi Shankar had numerous solo recordings published, including these: Studio and live albums *''Three Ragas'' (1956) *''Music of India'' (1962) *''Improvisations'' (1962) *''In Concert'' (1962) *''Ravi Shankar'' (Odeon Records, India catalogue) (1963) *''India's Master Musician'' (1963) *'' In London'' (1964) *'' Ragas & Talas'' (1964) *'' The Master Musicians of India'' (with Ali Akbar Khan) (1964) *'' Portrait of Genius'' (1964) *''Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan'' (1965) *'' Sound of the Sitar'' (1965) *''West Meets East'' with Yehudi Menuhin (also titled ''Menuhin Meets Shankar'') (1967) *'' In San Francisco'' (1967) *'' The Exotic Sitar and Sarod'' (1967) *'' Two Raga Moods'' (1967) *'' Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival'' (1967) *'' A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga'' (1968) *''The Sounds of India'' (1968) *'' In New York'' (1968) *''West Meets East, Volume 2'' with Yehudi Menuhin (1968) *''Music from India serie no.8 '' (1968) *''A Sitar Recital'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the '' Apu Trilogy'' by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956. In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga
''A Morning Raga/An Evening Raga'' is a 1968 LP by Hindustani classical musician Ravi Shankar. It was originally released under the alternative title ''Raga Nata Bhairav · Raga Mishra Piloo'' in the U.K., but had the simplified title for its original U.S. and Canadian releases, as well as most subsequent re-releases. It was also released as ''Ravi Shankar'' in India in 1970. A digitally remastered version was released in CD format through Angel Records. The record features two North Indian ragas; ''Nata Bhairav'', which is a morning raga created by Shankar in the mid-1960s by combining aspects of the ragas Nat and Bhairav, and ''Mishra Piloo'', which is a popular evening raga. The original liner notes feature detailed descriptions of each raga's melodic and structural content. Track listing #"Raga Nata Bhairav" – 23:18 #"Raga Mishra Piloo" – 24:32 Personnel * Ravi Shankar – sitar * Alla Rakha – tabla * Kamala Chakravarti – tanpura The tanpura (), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Genius Of Ravi Shankar
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The Concert For Bangladesh (album)
''The Concert for Bangladesh'' (originally spelt ''The Concert for Bangla Desh'') is a live triple album credited to " George Harrison & Friends" and released on Apple Records in December 1971 in America and January 1972 in Britain. The album followed the two concerts of the same name, held on 1 August 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden, featuring Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and Eric Clapton. The shows were a pioneering charity event, in aid of the homeless Bengali refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, and set the model for future multi-artist rock benefits such as Live Aid (1985) and the Concert for New York City (2001). The event brought Harrison and Starr together on a concert stage for the first time since 1966, when the Beatles retired from live performance, and represented Dylan's first major concert appearance in the US in five years. Co-produced by Phil Spector, ''The Concert for Bangladesh'' fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Previn
André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until the end. In movies, he arranged and composed music. In jazz, he was a celebrated trio pianist, a piano-accompanist to singers of standards, and pianist-interpreter of songs from the "Great American Songbook". In classical music, he also performed as a pianist but gained television fame as a conductor, and during his last thirty years created his legacy as a composer of art music. Before the age of twenty, Previn began arranging and composing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He would go on to be involved in the music of more than fifty films and would win four Academy Awards. He won ten Grammy Awards, for recordings in all three areas of his career, and then one more, for lifetime ach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's orchestras, symphony orchestras. The LSO was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra because of a new rule requiring players to give the orchestra their exclusive services. The LSO itself later introduced a similar rule for its members. From the outset the LSO was organised on co-operative lines, with all players sharing the profits at the end of each season. This practice continued for the orchestra's first four decades. The LSO underwent periods of eclipse in the 1930s and 1950s when it was regarded as inferior in quality to new London orchestras, to which it lost players and bookings: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1930s and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic after the Second World War. The profit-sharing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concerto For Sitar & Orchestra
''Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra'' is a studio album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) conducted by André Previn. The concerto was premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall on 28 January 1971, and subsequently released in Britain and America. Composition and recording Ravi Shankar began composing the work, his first concerto, after receiving a commission from the LSO in mid November 1970. The idea of creating an Indian classical work for a full Western orchestra, accompanied by his sitar, appealed to Shankar following his forays into chamber music with violinist Yehudi Menuhin – issued on ''West Meets East'' (1967) and ''West Meets East, Volume 2'' (1968). He dedicated the concerto to his music guru (teacher) Allauddin Khan, who was in poor health at the time. Khan's composition Raga Manj Khamaj was one of the four ragas that Shankar adapted for the project. The album was produced by Christopher Bishop and recorded at EMI Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi Bangla
''Joi Bangla'' is an EP by Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, issued in August 1971 on Apple Records. The recording was produced by George Harrison and its release marked the first in a series of occasional collaborations between the two musicians that lasted until the ''Chants of India'' album in 1997. Shankar recorded the EP in Los Angeles, to help raise international awareness of the plight faced by refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, in advance of his and Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh shows at Madison Square Garden, New York. Side one of the disc consists of two vocal compositions sung in Bengali, of which the title track was a message of unity to the newly independent nation, formerly known as East Pakistan. The third selection is a duet by Shankar and sarodya Ali Akbar Khan, supported by Alla Rakha on tabla, a performance that presaged their opening set at the Concert for Bangladesh. ''Joi Bangla'' was the first of four Shankar-related releases on the Beatles' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Raga Moods
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Six Ragas
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At The Woodstock Festival
''At the Woodstock Festival'' is a live album by Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar that was released in 1970 on World Pacific Records. It was recorded on 15 August 1969, during the first day of the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York. Shankar's set took place during a downpour and he later expressed his dissatisfaction with the event due to the prevalence of drugs among the crowd. Having performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, Woodstock was the last rock festival Shankar played, as he subsequently distanced himself from the 1960s hippie movement. He said he felt the music was only "incidental" to the party atmosphere and likened the vast rain-soaked crowd to "the water buffaloes you see in India, submerged in the mud". The album includes an eight-minute tabla solo played by Alla Rakha. ''At the Woodstock Festival'' was issued on CD in 1991 by BGO Records. Track listing Side one # "Raga Puriya–Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital" (11 Beats) (adapted by Ravi Shankar) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravi Shankar's Festival From India
''Ravi Shankar's Festival from India'' is a double album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released on World Pacific Records in December 1968. It contains studio recordings made by a large ensemble of performers, many of whom Shankar had brought to the United States from India. Among the musicians were Shivkumar Sharma, Jitendra Abhisheki, Palghat Raghu, Lakshmi Shankar, Aashish Khan and Alla Rakha. The project presented Indian classical music in an orchestral setting, so recalling Shankar's work as musical director of All India Radio in the years before he achieved international fame as a soloist during the 1960s. After recording the album in Los Angeles, Shankar's ensemble – also titled the Festival from India – toured America during June and July 1968. Some of the performers subsequently taught at Shankar's Kinnara School of Music, instructing Western students in the intricacies of Indian music. Shankar revisited the Festival from India concept in 1974, when G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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