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Artist:
BANERJEE, NIKHIL
Title:
Pratibha: Raga Yaman Kalyan
Label:
NAVRAS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
NAVRAS 225CD
Live performance at Musée Guimet, Paris, Nov. 2, 1983. "The late Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was an exceptionally admired and respected master of Indian music and unquestionably one of the greatest sitar players of his generation."
Artist:
TARANATH, PANDIT RAJEEV
Title:
Swar Kalyan
Label:
NAVRAS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
NAVRAS 247CD
"This recording by Pandit Rajeev Taranath is sourced from his performances at two different concert venues. The title of this album is derived from 'Kalyan' meaning a blessing and as this recording represents a beautiful arrangement of musical notes, 'Swar'. The recordings are a manifestation of the blessing bestowed upon Rajeevji by his Guru, late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Rajeev Taranath is a leading exponent of the Sarod, having studied under the illustrious Ali Akbar Khan at the age of 21 and also Annapurna Devi as well as Ravi Shankar."
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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