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Ravi Shankar

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Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর Robi Shaunkor; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India 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, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The...

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Discography

  • Monument of Strings
  • In Celebration (disc 2: Orchestral and Ensembles)
  • West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions, 1999
  • The Sounds of India, 1968
  • The Teacher - Key Works
  • Tana Mana
  • In Celebration (disc 3: East-West Collaboration)
  • Bridges, 2001
  • Three Ragas, 1956
  • Pandit Ravi Shankar, 1986
  • Portrait of Genius
  • Homage To Mahatma Gandhi, 2004
  • From Dusk to Dawn: The Raga Collection, 2000
  • Inside the Kremlin, 1989
  • East & West, Yin & Yang, 2002
  • Maestro's Choice: Series One, 1991
  • Ustad Alla Rakha
  • The Golden Collection
  • The Doyen of Hindustani Music, 1999
  • Ragas & Talas
  • Transmigration Macabre, 2006
  • In London, 1964
  • Traditional Ragas (disc 2)
  • Festival from India (disc 1)
  • Raga Tala
  • Menuhin meets Shankar (feat. Yehudi Menuhin ), 1993
  • In Celebration (disc 4)
  • Traditional Ragas (disc 1)
  • Sound of the Sitar
  • Raga-Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2), 1982
  • Passages, 1990
  • Ragas Varanasi
  • Best Of Ravi Shankar, 2008
  • Inde du Nord
  • Ravi Shankar In Concert, 1968
  • Chants of India, 1997
  • Spirit Of India, 1988
  • From India
  • Ravi Shankar Presents The Master Drummers of India
  • Raga Jogeshwari
  • The Unparalleled Pt. Ravi Shankar
  • Shankar Family & Friends, 1974
  • A Morning Raga, An Evening Raga
  • Festival from India (disc 2)
  • The Spirit of India
  • In Celebration (disc 1: Classical Sitar)
  • In Concert, 1997

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