Ravi Shankar - Raga Rageshri '2020

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Ravi Shankar KBE (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈrobi ˈʃɔŋkor]; born
Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, spelled Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury in Sanskrit; 7
April 1920 – 11 December 2012), whose name is often preceded by the title
Pandit (Master) and Sitar maestro, was a Bengali Indian musician and a composer
of Hindustani classical music. He was the best-known proponent of the sitar in
the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians
throughout the world. Shankar was awarded Indias highest civilian honour, the
Bharat Ratna, in 1999.

Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth as a
dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday
Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician
Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a
composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music
director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical
music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching,
performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles
guitarist George Harrison. His influence on the latter helped popularize the use
of Indian instruments in pop music in the latter half of the 1960s. Shankar
engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra, and
toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a
nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India.
He continued to perform until the end of his life.

Tracklist:
01. Ravi Shankar - Fire Night (4:37)
02. Ravi Shankar - Improvisations on the Theme from Panther Panchali (7:08)
03. Ravi Shankar - Karnataki (6:44)
04. Ravi Shankar - Raga Rageshri Take One (6:51)
05. Ravi Shankar - Raga Rageshri Take Two (11:02)
06. Ravi Shankar - Raga Rageshri Take Three (3:24)

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