Shankar
Song For Everyone [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded September 1984. Over terrifically propulsive percussion by Zakir Hussain and Trilok Gurtu, Shankar, on electric double violin, trades solos and shares thrilling unisons with Jan Garbarek. An immediately appealing East/West collaboration. |
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar And His Music (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 29/Nov/2024 ] Mr Bongo proudly presents an official reissue of an iconic, exploratory album by Indian maestro of the sitar, Ananda Shankar, aptly titled 'Ananda Shankar And His Music'. Released on His Master's Voice in 1976, the album is a sublime collage of... |
Anoushka Shankar
Traveller [ DECCA / CD - released 17/Oct/2011 ] |
Anoushka Shankar (sitar)
Anoushka Shankar: Land of Gold [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] 5 times GRAMMY nominated Anoushka Shankar returns with her 4th album on Deutsche Grammophon. Land of Gold is Anoushka Shankar's fervent response to the humanitarian trauma of displaced people fleeing conflict and poverty. The virtuoso sitar player... |
Ravi Shankar
L'Extraordinaire Leçon (The Extraordinary Lesson) [ Accords Croises DVD / DVD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] This rare documentary revisits the life and the art of Ravi Shankar, the most famous Indian sitar virtuoso and first ambassador of Indian music. From 1956 he popularized Indian music in the Western world. The film shows Ravi transmitting his art to... |
Ravi Shankar
Music Of India [ Not Now / 3 CD - released 11/Mar/2013 ] Improvisations is a 1962 LP album by Ravi Shankar. The opening piece is based on music from Shankar's score for Satyajit Ray's 1955 movie Pather Panchali with flutist Bud Shank playing in Indian style. Shankar composed "Fire Night" influenced by the... |
Ravi Shankar
Shankar Family & Friends [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 14/Jul/2023 ] World-renowned Indian musician Ravi Shankar's Shankar Family & Friends was originally released in 1974. Produced by George Harrison, this was one of the first album releases on Dark Horse Records. Its East-meets-West musical styles puts Western... |
Ravi Shankar
Sitar Virtuoso [ Not Now Music / 2 CD - released 9/Sep/2011 ] |
RAVI SHANKAR
Shankar: Sitar Concerto (LP) Ravi Shankar (sitar), London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Warner Classics / LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] This album features Ravi Shankar's first Concerto for sitar, commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra in 1970. The work was premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall on 28 January 1971 and sets a sitar recital of four ragas (including one by... |
RAVI SHANKAR
Ravi Shankar Edition Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal / London Symphony & Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn, Zubin Mehta [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Including performances from Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menhuin, Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra, these pioneering, visionary works come together to form an inspiring whole. |