Ravi Shankar - In Celebration
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Track List: In Celebration
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Disc 1:
Disc 2:
Disc 3:
- Sitar And Violin Duet
- 2nd Movement Sitar Concerto No.1
- 3rd Movement Sitar Concerto No. 1
- Morning Love
- Indo - Japan Finale
- Enchanted Dawn
- 4th Movement Raga Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2)
Disc 4:
- Vandana
- Hey Nath
- Pather Panchali
- Supaney Mein Aye
- West Eats Meat
- Oh Bhagawan
- Friar Park
- Tana Mana
- I Am Missing You
- Ta Na Tom
- Fire Night
- Sanwarey, Sanwarey
- Dispute And Violence
- Shanti Mantra
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Album Details: In Celebration
- Release Date:
- 12/05/1995
- Label:
- Angel Records
- UPC:
- 724355557728
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews It's indicative of the odd position that Ravi Shankar occupies in western musical culture that this fourCD set, which might otherwise find its way into the rarified surroundings of classical music departments, or world music racks, instead often ends up in rock and pop sections, right alongside releases such as Crossroads by Eric Clapton or Dreams by the Allman Brothers Band. This fourCD set, produced by Shankar's longtime friend and admirer George Harrison, presents a surprisingly rich and diverse overview of Shankar's career across 38 years, from the end of the 1950's thru 1995 although the earliest track here goes back to 1957, most of the material dates from the late 1960's thru the 1980's, the period in which Shankar was at the peak of his fame and popularity with younger western listeners. It's a sign of precisely how diverse his music is that the makers have broken the set down into four separate idioms and categories: Classical Sitar, Orchestral Ensembles, EastWest Collaborations, and Vocal Experimental. To some extent, these are nonexclusive designations which overlap, but they allow a means of organizing the material at hand, which amounts to almost five hours of music, of which nearly a fifth is previously unreleased additionally, although Shankar has long been an EMI recording artist, and the label and Harrison undoubtedly could easily have filled this set with material from its vaults, Harrison also reached out to the World Pacific label for pieces representing Shankar's early US output, and to his own vaults for access to material that Shankar recorded in association with (or even inspired by) the exBeatle, dating from the 1970's. Given that it generates from Angel Records, EMI's classical division, the 41 tracks here are not weighted very heavily toward Shankar's classical works, although they are represented in their best incarnations these include "Sitar And Violin Duet" with Yehudi Menuhin, movements from the Sitar Concerto No. 1 with Andre Previn, and "Morning Love" with Jean Pierre Rampal, and Harrison and company wait until the third disc to get to those and stylistically related works. But the first disc plunges us headfirst into a selection of ragas and related works in traditional form, across four decades amazingly, there is no discernable difference in quality between the 1950's and 1990's sides, and the disc is something of an education (and a crash course at that) in the traditional aspects of the sitar. Disc Two showcases Shankar working within a classic Hindustani idiom but in collaboration with slightly larger ensembles. Disc Three is the classical music volume, and Disc Four contains the lion's share of the 1970's vintage material recorded under the auspices of Harrison, as well as capturing Shankar working in a vocal music mode (including his own vocals, which are astonishingly beautiful and affecting). Each disc is different enough from what came before so that the listener is constantly surprised by new discovery, and the last disc, with the addition of the voices, is the most delightful of all, spotlighting Shankar the composer and leader as well as the instrumentalist, and offering a rich, bracing body of music that stands apart from most of our associations with his work from the 1960's and early 1970's. From the opening "Vandana", it draws us into a realm of music that is so sublimely beautiful, that it makes everything that has come before it, in its bejeweled splendor, seem almost plain and pale by comparison. The set includes a wellannotated booklet giving a detailed account of Shankar's life and career, and even includes a handy glossary of terms relevant to an understanding of Hindustani music, for those unfamiliar with it. - Bruce Eder, All Music Guide |
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Ravi Shankar Biography
Born on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi near Benares in West Bengal into an orthodox, well-off Brahmin family, Rabindra Shankar Chowdery's father, ShyÆm Shankar, was employed as a diwan (minister) by the Maharajah of Jhalawar. By the age of 13, Ravi Shan...Full Ravi Shankar Biography
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