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Artist:	RAY, SATYAJIT
Title:	The Masterworks Of Satyajit Ray
Label:	NAVRAS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	NRCD 1002CD

2002 release. "Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) is known to the world as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He was a man with many facets and was hailed by the cognoscenti as the 'Last Sentinel of the Bengal Renaissance'...One of the greatest pleasure Satyajit Ray's films give his audience is the beautiful music they contain. This has been true from the very beginning of his career, when he asked classical Indian musicians Pandit Ravi Shankar (The Apu Trilogy), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (Devi and Ustad Vilayat Khan (The Music Room) to compose and perform the music for his soundtracks. These great maestros always worked within the framework of Indian classical music, that is, music based upon ragas. However, light classical and folk songs, as well as folk tunes, were also drawn upon and provide much intoxicating rhythm and lively orchestration for Ray's scores. Pather Panchali is unusually rich in such folk music. On the other hand, 'The Music Room' (Jalsaghar) is all about Indian classical music and dance; it is what the proud Zamindar played by Chabi Biswas lives and dies for. When Ray, the consummate cosmopolitan where any music was concerned, took to writing his own music for his films, he not only drew from the riches of Indian classical and vernacular music, of which he was a connoisseur, but from the Western musical tradition as well.. No other film composer in India ever quite attained his effects, or gave us film music so satisfying to the Western ear."

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