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Ravi Shankar
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Ravi Shankar, from Varanasi, toured as a boy with the dance company of his brother Uday and then studied the sitar for years with Allauddin Khan. He wrote the music for Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy and brought the Indian raga to the West, together with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and later with George Harrison. His performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 made the sitar famous with a rock audience.
Listening
Listening tip. Listen to Raga Bhimpalasi in Monterey: the sitar begins alone and slowly, and only later does the tabla come in and the tempo pick up.
Raga Bhimpalasi (Live) · Ravi Shankar, 1967
Pather Panchali Music Scene 1, Take 1 · Ravi Shankar, 1955
Bhimpalasi · Ravi Shankar, 1957
Raga Malkauns (alap) · Ravi ShankarApple Music ↗
Pather Panchali · Ravi Shankar, 1955
Improvisation on the Theme Music from Pather Panchali · Ravi Shankar, 1955
Discovery of India · Ravi Shankar, 1982
Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) · Ravi Shankar, 1959
Discography
Studio albums
- 1956Music of India (Three Classical Ragas)
- 1958India's Master Musician
- 1958The Sounds of India
- 1959Ragas & Talas
- 1962In London
- 1964The Master Musicians of India
- 1965Portrait of Genius
- 1965Shree / Sindhu Bhairavi
- 1966Chappaqua (soundtrack)
- 1966West Meets East
- 1967Song of God: Bagavad Gita
- 1967Sound of the Sitar
- 1967Two Rāga Moods
- 1968A Morning Raga, An Evening Raga
- 1968A Sitar Recital
- 1968Charly (soundtrack)
- 1968Ragas Nata Bhairav/Raga Mishra Piloo
- 1971Four Raga Moods
- 1971Raga (Original Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
- 1972Ragas Kameshwari, Gangeshwari, Rangeshwari
- 1973Transmigration Macabre
- 1974Shankar Family & Friends
- 1974Shankar Family ૐ Friends
- 1976Improvisations
- 1976Ravi Shankar's Music Festival From India
- 1978East Greets East
- 1979Ragas Hameer & Gara
- 1979Ravi
- 1980Raga Jogeshwari
- 1980Raga Jogeshwari
- 1981Homage To Mahatma Gandhi & Baba Allauddin
- 1982Gandhi (soundtrack)
- 1982Raga-Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2)
- 1984New Offerings From Ravi Shankar
- 1984Raga Mishra Piloo - Duet for Sitar & Sarod
- 1986Genesis (soundtrack)
- 1986Incredible Ravi Shankar - Raga Charukauns
- 1986Inde du Nord
- 1987Sublime Sounds of Sitar
- 1987Tana Mana
- 1988Sitar
- 1988Spirit of India
- 1990‘Triveni’ Sitar
- 1990Passages
- 1991Improvisations
- 1991Maestro's Choice Series One
- 1991Maestro's Choice: Series One: Sitar
- 1991Sitar
- 1991The Tiger and the Brahmin
- 1993Menuhin meets Shankar
- 1995Ravi Shankar's Music Festival From India
- 1995The Spirit Of India - Ravi Shankar Plays Ragas
- 1996In Celebration
- 1996Towards the Rising Sun
- 1997Chants of India
- 1998Ragas Varanasi
- 1999Homage to Mahatma Gandhi
- 1999The Doyen of Hindustani Music
- 2000Genesis (soundtrack)
- 2000Ravi Shankar Presents: The Master Drummers of India
- 2002Sangeet Sartaj
- 2002The Teacher - Key Works
- 2002West Meets East Volume 2
- 2003Ravi Shankar 70
- 2004Homage To Mahatma Gandhi
- 2005Music for Flute and Percussion
- 2007A Life in Music
- 2007Flowers of India
- 2007Sitar Soul
- 2007Songs & Dances From the New Village
- 2007Traditional Ragas
- 2008Flowers of India
- 2009Ravi Shankar's Music Festival From India
- 2009Rare and Glorious
- 2010Psychedelic India
- 2010The Ultimate CD
- 2011That Which Colours the Mind
- 2012Ravi Shankar Symphony
- 2013Ravi Shankar's Music Festival From India
- 2013Ravi Shankar: A Life in Music
- 2015The Unique Ravi Shankar
- 2016India's Master Musician
- 2017Nine Decades Volume 5: Ghanashyam: A Broken Branch (soundtrack)
- 2019Ravi Shankar - Mind Blowin Melody & Concluding Note
- 2020Sukanya
- 2021The Unforgettable Ravi Shankar
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- ?Ragas & Talas
- ?The Genius of Pandit Ravi Shankar
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Mentioned in other articles
- Raga rock Genre
George Harrison played sitar on Norwegian Wood (1965) by The Beatles and later took lessons from Ravi Shankar; The Byrds and The Rolling Stones, with Paint It Black (1966), also used the sound.
- Indian classical music Genre
In the 1960s the sitar player Ravi Shankar brought this music to the West: he taught George Harrison and played at the festivals of Monterey (1967) and Woodstock (1969).
- Parallel cinema (Bengal) Genre
For the Apu trilogy, the sitar player Ravi Shankar wrote music based on ragas.