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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 and incr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
