Ravi Shankar & Yehudi Menuhin - West Meets East: The Historic Shankar Menuhin Collection
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Artist: Ravi Shankar & Yehudi MenuhinEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-11-02
Music Label: Angel Records
Soundtracks:
- West Meets East: Prabhali
- West Meets East: Swara Kakali
- West Meets East: Raga Piloo
- West Meets East: Dhun
- West Meets East: Raga Ananda Bhairava
- West Meets East: Tenderness
- West Meets East: Twilight Mood
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Free Music Review: Such catholic taste...
Hit: 5 Stars
I was into the Yehudi Menuhin-Ravi Shankar collaborations back when I first purchased the "West Meets East" albums twenty five years ago. This CD features all thier sessions. Sir Yehudi, the "classical" American violinist; and Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar virtuoso touch the soul of India in the passion that is captures in these recordings.
Sir Yehudi also collaborated with jazz violinist Steff Grappelli; and Ravi Shankar with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Andre Previn and jazz drummer Buddy Rich. Shankar taught the sitar to George Harisson of "The Beatles". Who could doubt two men of such catholic taste?
West Meets East: The Historic Shankar Menuhin Collection Poster
Without renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin, the West may not have found Indian classical music until decades later, much beyond the late 1960s. Thanks to Menuhin's chance meeting and later lasting friendship with the master sitarist Ravi Shankar, the West witnessed the sublimity that the merging of Western and Indian classical music could produce. The two collaborated in key performances during the late 1960s and mid-1970s, the highlights of which are captured here on West Meets East. In an incredible, interwoven dance between violin and sitar, Shankar and Menuhin spin a new yarn from the wool of ancient and rare Indian ragas, capturing the ecstasy of Hindustani praise while spontaneously bringing forth their own voices in the music. Menuhin's violin sings in beautiful sadness alongside Shankar's twanging sitar amid the droning of tanpura and occasional tabla rhythms. It's as if the two greats are playing a game of tag, taking the other's notes and stretching them into their own inspired shapes while creating a timeless music where love and respect swirl up like blessed smoke. --Karen H. HuggInternational Music CDs
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