Shankar - Sitar Concerto (Vinyl LP)
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Label: Warner
Cat No: 9029626695
Format: LP
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 31st March 2023
Contents
Artists
Ravi Shankar (sitar)Terence Emery (bongos)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Andre PrevinWorks
Sitar Concerto no.1Artists
Ravi Shankar (sitar)Terence Emery (bongos)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Andre PrevinAbout
“If I’ve accomplished anything,” said Ravi Shankar, “it’s that I have been able to open the door to our music in the West.” Born in Varanasi in 1920, he achieved worldwide renown as a sitar player and unprecedented influence as an ambassador for Indian classical music, revealing new possibilities to such figures as George Harrison of the Beatles, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and composer Philip Glass. As a performer, composer, teacher and writer, Ravi Shankar is renowned throughout the world for his pioneering work in bringing Indian music to the West. Shankar has been a cultural influence in the West for more than four decades as India’s most recognised and esteemed musical ambassador.
“The first Concerto was really a snapshot of a moment in history. It was the first time we were seeing raga music across an orchestral arrangement, creating a composite soundscape.” – Anoushka Shankar (Ravi’s daughter)
“Shankar’s concerto is a compelling, almost textbook-ideal adaptation of one musical tradition into another. Its melodies and rhythms come from raga, and the techniques of development also rely on Indian tradition, including sections for improvisation by the soloist. But Shankar uses the Western orchestra with imagination. Sometimes he looks for equivalents: Bongos serve as tabla; two harps play scales, echoing the sitar; the strings fill in the tambura’s drone. Sometimes he creates new effects, as in a stunning lyrical horn solo or the wonderful wind and percussion writing.” – Los Angeles Times
Recorded: 29-30.V.1971, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London (STEREO)
Producer: Christopher Bishop
Balance engineer: Christopher Parker
First release as EMI ASD 2752
Original cover artwork
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