Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitar, sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of Hin ...

had numerous solo recordings published, including these:

Studio and live albums

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Three Ragas ''Three Ragas'' is a 1956 LP album by Hindustani classical musician Ravi Shankar. It was digitally remastered and released in CD format by Angel Records in 2000. AllMusic reviewer Matthew Greenwald praised the performance of the raga Jog and de ...

'' (1956) *''Music of India'' (1962) *''

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'' (1962) *''In Concert'' (1962) *''Ravi Shankar'' (

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, India catalogue) (1963) *''

India's Master Musician ''India's Master Musician'' is an album by Hindustani classical musician Ravi Shankar released in March 1959. It was recorded in Hollywood, California. It was later digitally remastered and released in CD format through Angel Records, with digit ...

'' (1963) *'' In London'' (1964) *'' Ragas & Talas'' (1964) *'' The Master Musicians of India'' (with

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) (1964) *'' Portrait of Genius'' (1964) *''Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan'' (1965) *''

Sound of the Sitar ''Sound of the Sitar'' is an LP by Hindustani classical musician Ravi Shankar. It was released in 1965 on vinyl. It was later released on CD by BGO Records in 1993 and in a digitally remastered version through Angel Records Angel Records was ...

'' (1965) *''

West Meets East ''West Meets East'' is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar,first released in the United Kingdom by His Master's Voice in January 1967. It was recorded following their successful duet in June 1966 ...

'' with

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(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 ''West Meets East, Volume 2'' is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in 1968. It is the second album in a trilogy of collaborations between the two artists, after the Grammy Award-winnin ...

'' with Yehudi Menuhin (1968) *''Music from India serie no.8 '' (1968) *''A Sitar Recital'' (1968) *''Ravi Shankar Improvisations & theme from Pather Panchali'' (1968) *''

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 ...

'' (1968) *''

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'' (1968) *''Ravi Shankar'' (1969) *'' At the Woodstock Festival'' (1969) *''Music of India A Dhun and a Raga with Ali Akbar Khan'' (1969) *''Ravi Shankar Raga Parameshwari'' (1970) *'' Six Ragas'' (1970) *''The Exciting Music of Ravi Shankar'' (1970) *'' Four Raga Moods'' (1971) *''PBP Ravi Shankar and PBU Ahmedjan Thirakhwa'' (1971) *'' Joi Bangla'' EP (1971) *'' Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra'' with the London Symphony Orchestra and

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(1971) * ''

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'' (1971) – side one only, with Ali Akbar Khan *'' The Genius of Ravi Shankar'' (1972) *''Ravi Shankar'' (1972) *''Ravi Shankar Ragas'' (1972) *''The Masters of Indian Music '' (1972) (double album with Ali Albar Khan) *''

In Concert 1972 ''In Concert 1972'' is a double live album by sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and sarodiya Ali Akbar Khan, released in 1973 on Apple Records. It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City, in October 1972, and is a noted example of the tw ...

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(1973) *''

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– contains '' The Master Musicians of India'' (1964) and the Ali Akbar Khan album ''The Soul of Indian Music'' (1965) (released as a double album in 1973) *''

Shankar Family & Friends ''Shankar Family & Friends'' (stylised as ''Shankar Family Friends'' on the album cover) is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, recorded primarily in Los Angeles during the spring of 1973, and released in late 1974. It was produced by Shan ...

'' (1974) – available as part of Shankar and George Harrison box set '' Collaborations'' (2010) *''

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'' (1976) – available as part of ''Collaborations'' box set (2010) *''Improvisations – West Meets East 3'' – with Yehudi Menuhin and

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(1976) *''Ravi Shankar'' (1979) *'' Shankar in Japan'' (1979) *''Jazzmine'' (1980) – with George Adams and others *''The Spirit of India'' (Deutsche Grammophon, 1980) *'' Homage to Mahatma Gandhi'' (1981) *'' Raga-Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2)'' (1982) *''Raga Mishra Piloo: duet for sitar & sarod'' (1983) – with Ali Akbar Khan *''

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'' (1986) *''

Tana Mana ''Tana Mana'' is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, originally credited to "the Ravi Shankar Project" and released in 1987. The album is an experimental work by Shankar, mixing traditional instrumentation with 1980s electronic music and ...

'' (1987) *'' Ravi Shankar: the Doyen of Hindustani Music'' (1988) *'' Inside the Kremlin'' (1988) *'' Passages'' with

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) *'' Concert for Peace: Royal Albert Hall'' (1995) *''

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'' (1995) *'' Towards the Rising Sun'' (1996) *'' Ravi Shankar: In Celebration'' (1996) *''

Chants of India ''Chants of India'' is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar released in 1997 on Angel Records. Produced by his friend and sometime collaborator George Harrison, the album consists of Vedic and other Hindu sacred prayers set to music, marking ...

'' (1997) – available as part of ''Collaborations'' box set (2010) *'' Raga Tala'' (1997) *'' Shankar: Sitar Concertos and Other Works'' (1998) *'' Shankar: Raga Jogeshwari'' (1998) *'' Vision of Peace: The Art of Ravi Shankar'' (2000) *'' Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000'' (2001) *'' Between Two Worlds'' (documentary directed by

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) (2001) *'' Flowers of India'' (2007) *'' More Flowers of India'' (2008) *'' Collaborations'' box set, with George Harrison (2010) *''

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with

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and David Murphy'' (2012) *''

The Living Room Sessions Part 1 ''The Living Room Sessions Part 1'' is an album by Ravi Shankar released in 2012 through the record label East Meets West. The album earned Shankar the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. Accompanying musicians are tabla player Tanmoy Bose ...

'' (2012) *''

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'' (2013) *''A Night at St. John the Divine'' (2014) *''Live In Bangalore'' (2015) 2CD/DVD (with

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, as part of the Premanjali Festival) *''In Hollywood, 1971'' (2016) *''Ghanashyam: A Broken Branch'' (2017) *''Live in Copenhagen'' (2020)

Film music

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'' (1946, directed by Chetan Anand) * ''

The Apu Trilogy ''The Apu Trilogy'' is a celebrated series of three Indian Bengali-language drama films directed by Satyajit Ray: ''Pather Panchali'' (1955), ''Aparajito'' (1956) and ''The World of Apu'' (1959). The trilogy's evocative score was composed by Rav ...

'' (1955–1959, directed by

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A Chairy Tale ''A Chairy Tale'' () is a 1957 Canadian stop-motion pixilation short film co-directed by Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra for the National Film Board of Canada. Set to the music of Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal, it comedically portrays Jutra's attemp ...

'' (1957, directed by

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) * ''

Parash Pathar ''Parash Pathar'' ( ''Porosh Pathor''; English: ''The Philosopher's Stone''; French: ''La Pierre Philosophale'') is a 1958 Bengali language Indian fantasy comedy film. It was Satyajit Ray's first film outside of ''The Apu Trilogy''. It was also ...

'' (1958, directed by Satyajit Ray) * '' Anuradha'' (1960, directed by

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) * ''

Godaan ''Godaan'' (, ) is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. It was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest novels of modern Indian literature. Themed around the socio-economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the vil ...

'' (1963, directed by Trilok Jetley) * ''

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'' (1966, directed by

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) – composer of original score * ''

'' (1966, directed by

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) * ''

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'' (1968, documentary by D.A. Pennebaker) * ''

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'' (1968, directed by

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'' (1971, directed by Howard Worth) * ''

'' by

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SRLM 2002 * ''Forbidden Image'' (1974, directed by

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) * ''

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'' (1979, Directed by

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'' (1982, directed by

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), (

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nomination for Shankar and

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) * ''

'' (1986) * ''

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References

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