Ravi Shankar - The Essential Ravi Shankar
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Artist: Ravi ShankarEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- An Introduction To Indian Music
- Dadra
- Kafi-Holi (Spring Festival Of Colors)
- Raga Des
- Raga Palas Kafi (Excerpt)
- Sitar Todi
- Dhun: Fast Teental (Excerpt)
- Swara-Kakali
- Discovery Of India
- Vandanaa Trayee
- Village Dance
- Raga Minature
- Sandhya Raga
- Memory Of Uday
- Shanti Mantra
- Ragas In Minor Scale
- Chappaqua
- Friar Park
- Vaishnava janato/Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram
- Offering
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Free Music Review: An essential introduction to a master musician
Hit: 5 Stars
Other reviewers here have noted that, if all you want is one CD of Ravi Shankar's music, this 2-CD set ought to do the trick. It also works as a good capsule introduction to Ravi-ji and his music; Disc One is a more pure distillation of Hindustani music, where Disc Two gives the listener a sampling of his collaborations with Western artists, all of whom seem to have had a good grasp on what was needed to make the collaborations work (not always the case with cross-cultural experiments).
Another bonus is that many of these tracks are not as readily available as one might like (I've yet to find a copy of the Chappaqua soundtrack anywhere), so their inclusion here is all the more welcomed. It is also helpful if one does not wish to buy every CD of Ravi-ji's music currently available; as it was, I already owned 4 or 5 of the Angel/EMI remasters (most of which are not covered by this compilation, making it, and them, more worthwhile). However, if you are as musically adventurous as I am, you'll start here and scour the world music bins of every record shop you can find to track down other Ravi Shankar albums.
Other Ravi Shankar titles I would recommend include Three Ragas (1956), Improvisations (1962; includes variations on the music he recorded as the soundtrack to the Indian film "Pather Panchali"), A Morning Raga/An Evening Raga (1968), East Meets West (1970; his collaboration with Yehudi Menuhin), and Inside the Kremlin (1988; a brilliant collaboration with classical musicians from Russia).
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