Ravi Shankar - Symphony
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Label: LPO
Cat No: LPO0060
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 30th April 2012
Contents
Artists
Anoushka Shankar (sitar)London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
David MurphyWorks
SymphonyArtists
Anoushka Shankar (sitar)London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
David MurphyAbout
Ravi Shankar travelled a great deal in the West as a child dancer in his elder brother Uday Shankar’s troupe of Indian musicians and dancers. During a long sojourn in Paris in the early 1930s he met many of the legends of Western classical music: George Enescu (the great Romanian violinist and composer who was then teaching the teenage Menuhin in Paris),Toscanini, Heifetz, Paderewski, Casals, Kreisler and the great Russian bass Chaliapin were some of the musical legends who made an impact on the young Ravi Shankar.
He also experienced the reaction of Westerners to hearing Indian music for the first time. He noticed that the Western ear is attuned to harmony, modulation and counterpoint: musical textures which of necessity are almost entirely absent in Indian music in order to maintain the melodic purity of the raga. He realised Western-trained ears needed an awareness of the rhythmic and melodic structures underpinning Indian music in order to appreciate it.
Thus in later years, Ravi Shankar became the first Indian musician to explain these concepts to his audiences. Through Ravi Shankar, Indian music began to have an influence on most genres of Western music: Yehudi Menuhin became a duo partner and George Harrison was another Western musician for whom the music of India resonated deeply. Harrison became a devoted student and lifelong friend, thus the influence of Indian music reached out to a whole generation.
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London on 1 July 2010.
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