Search results

8 results

Products

    JAZZ RAGA: SPIRITUAL EXPLORATION OF THE 2 GREATEST
    EL RECORDS

    JAZZ RAGA: SPIRITUAL EXPLORATION OF THE 2 GREATEST

    CD · 3 discs

    $28.99
    Artist
    COLTRANE, JOHN / SHANKAR, RAVI
    Released
    Jul 18, 2025
    Three CD collection focussing on the spiritual explorations of the two greatest melodic creators on the planet. John Coltrane played tenor on Miles Davis' monumental 'Kind of Blue', an album that was a template for the style of modal improvisation to which he would devote himself in the fertile early 60s. A period which would culminate in his career masterpiece 'A Love Supreme'. The modal approach freed Coltrane to improvise with limitless invention on a sensual carpet of sound and bore immediate (if highly controversial) fruit with 'My Favorite Things', his expansive meditation on the popular song from 'The Sound of Music'. But success in itself did not satisfy Coltrane. He had encountered the music of Ravi Shankar and became entranced by it's serenity; a quality he longed to find in his own work. Eventually the two men met and liked each other enormously. Ravi saw much of himself in Coltrane; he admired that the saxophonist had overcome heroin addition, become a vegetarian, taken to reading Ramakrishna, and had committed himself to a rigorous regime of practice and study. They discussed Indian classical music and the possibility of recording an album together but their plans came to nothing as Coltrane tragically succumbed to liver cancer shortly before they were due to meet again.
    View full page
  • JAZZ RAGA: SPIRITUAL EXPLORATION OF THE 2 GREATEST

    JAZZ RAGA: SPIRITUAL EXPLORATION OF THE 2 GREATEST

    EL RECORDS Jul 2025
    3 discs
    CD
    $28.99
    • SOUNDS OF INDIA
    WAX TIME

    SOUNDS OF INDIA

    Vinyl · 1 disc

    $23.19
    Artist
    SHANKAR, RAVI
    Released
    Mar 20, 2026
    Released by Columbia Records in 1957, The Sounds of India serves as a seminal educational document designed to introduce Western audiences to the complexities of Hindustani classical music. The album features Ravi Shankar's virtuosic sitar performances alongside his own spoken explanations of traditional ragas, talas, and instruments.
    View full page
  • SOUNDS OF INDIA

    SOUNDS OF INDIA

    WAX TIME Mar 2026
    1 disc
    Vinyl
    $23.19
    Mix & Match
    1. Shankar, Takemitsu, Piazzolla: Music for Flute and Guitar / Mattick, Etschmann
    2. Shankar, Takemitsu, Piazzolla: Music for Flute and Guitar / Mattick, Etschmann
    Genuin

    Shankar, Takemitsu, Piazzolla: Music for Flute and Guitar / Mattick, Etschmann

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Robert Beaser, Astor Piazzolla, Ravi Shankar, Toru Takemitsu, Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Artist
    Duo Mattick Etschmann
    Released
    Feb 04, 2022
    The new GENUIN release by Christian Mattick (flute) and Thomas Etschmann (guitar) offers an exciting program that spans continents: the first-class duo made of two renowned Munich soloists engages America and Asia in dialogue. Tradition and modernity, meditation and spirited outbursts, delight in novelty and melancholy at the loss of tradition. The two musicians interpret works by Toru Takemitsu, Ravi Shankar, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzolla, and Robert Beaser with tremendous stylistic confidence and a wealth of color that makes one marvel at the possibilities of this unusual duo.
    View full page
  • Shankar, Takemitsu, Piazzolla: Music for Flute and Guitar / Mattick, Etschmann

    Shankar, Takemitsu, Piazzolla: Music for Flute and Guitar / Mattick, Etschmann

    Genuin Feb 2022
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    • SHANKAR: SITAR CONCERTO
    WARNER CLASSICS

    SHANKAR: SITAR CONCERTO

    Vinyl · 1 disc

    $25.36
    Artist
    SHANKAR, RAVI
    Released
    May 26, 2023
    If I've accomplished anything, said Ravi Shankar, "it's that I have been able to open the door to our music in the West." Born in Varanasi in 1920, he achieved worldwide renown as a sitar player and unprecedented influence as an ambassador for Indian classical music, revealing new possibilities to such figures as George Harrison of the Beatles, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and composer Philip Glass. As a performer, composer, teacher and writer, Ravi Shankar is renowned throughout the world for his pioneering work in bringing Indian music to the West. Shankar has been a cultural influence in the West for more than four decades as India's most recognized and esteemed musical ambassador. "If East has to meet West, then few musicians have achieved it with such open joy as Ravi Shankar." The Guardian This album features Ravi Shankar's first Concerto for sitar, commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra in 1970; it was the first album Andre Previn recorded for EMI Classics (now Warner Classics), in 1971. The work was premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall on 28 January 1971 and sets a sitar recital of four ragas (including one by Ravi Shankar's guru Allauddin Khan, adapted for the concerto) across four movements and within the grand sweep of a full western orchestra. "The first Concerto was really a snapshot of a moment in history. It was the first time we were seeing raga music across an orchestral arrangement, creating a composite soundscape." Anoushka Shankar (Ravi's daughter) "Shankar's concerto is a compelling, almost textbook-ideal adaptation of one musical tradition into another. It's melodies and rhythms come from raga, and the techniques of development also rely on Indian tradition, including sections for improvisation by the soloist. But Shankar uses the Western orchestra with imagination. Sometimes he looks for equivalents: Bongos serve as tabla; two harps play scales, echoing the sitar; the strings fill in the tambura's drone. Sometimes he creates new effects, as in a stunning lyrical horn solo or the wonderful wind and percussion writing." Los Angeles Times
    View full page
  • SHANKAR: SITAR CONCERTO

    SHANKAR: SITAR CONCERTO

    WARNER CLASSICS May 2023
    1 disc
    Vinyl
    $25.36
  • Apti

    Apti

    Innova Recordings Jan 2009
    1 disc
    CD
    $16.99
    1. Legends Live
    2. Legends Live
    SWR

    Legends Live

    CD · 1 disc

    $9.99 $19.99 Save 50%
    Composer
    HUBNER LENZ MANGELSDORFF SH
    Artist
    Albert Mangelsdorff Quintett
    Released
    Mar 25, 2016

    This concert, which has lay forgotten for almost fifty years, is now available on CD. This concert, recorded June 22, 1964, established Albert Mangelsdorff as Germany’s international jazz star. Along with his quintet, he performs works such as Set ‘em Up, Far Out Far East, Okaka, and more.

    View full page
  • Legends Live
    Sale

    Legends Live

    SWR Mar 2016
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99 $9.99Save 50%
    • Shankar: Sukanya / Murphy, London Philharmonic Orchestra
    LPO

    Shankar: Sukanya / Murphy, London Philharmonic Orchestra

    CD · 1 disc

    $16.99
    Artist
    LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA / MURPHY, DAVID
    Released
    Jan 10, 2020
    Sukanya is Ravi Shankar’s only opera. He began writing it at the age of 90 and it was left incomplete at the time of his death in 2012. It was completed and orchestrated by David Murphy, a longtime collaborator of Shankar’s, with the help of Shankar’s wife Sukanya and daughter Anoushka.

    Inspired by Shankar’s own wife and based on a tale from the Mah?bh?rata, Sukanya seamlessly blends Western and Indian musical traditions to tell an epic and magical love story which transcends time and space.

    Featuring the original cast of the opera, including Susanna Hurrell and Alok Kumar as Sukanya and Chyavana the elderly sage performing alongside masters of traditional Indian instruments and the BBC Singers. This blend of traditions was praised for its “soundworld of arresting beauty and originality” (What’s On Stage). This World Premiere recording is taken from a live performance during the premiere production of the opera. Classical Source praised the production and said it created “a blaze of colour and energy... ravishing musical moments and gorgeous spectacle... Sukanya is a triumphant celebration of shared humanity.” The Telegraph called the production “a delightful evening of pure escapism,” and The Guardian described it as “a ravishing spectacle.”

    LPO concert performance of Sukanya on 15th January 2020 at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
    View full page
  • Shankar: Sukanya / Murphy, London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Shankar: Sukanya / Murphy, London Philharmonic Orchestra

    LPO Jan 2020
    1 disc
    CD
    $16.99
    1. 20th Century Music for Flute & Guitar
    2. 20th Century Music for Flute & Guitar
    Naxos

    20th Century Music for Flute & Guitar

    CD · 1 disc

    $13.99 $19.99 Save 30%
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Kalisvaart, Jacobs
    Released
    Nov 12, 2021

    This album of 20th-century masterpieces for flute and guitar features works composed especially for this combination of instruments plus arrangements of works by Bartók and Ravi Shankar. Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Sonatine for Flute and Guitar is considered to be one of the finest compositions for this combination of instruments, contrasting joyfulness with poignant melodies. The warm sound of the alto flute is given expressive range in Takemitsu’s Toward the Sea, while Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango takes us on a journey from the form’s beginnings in the brothels of Buenos Aires, to its acceptance as one of the most loved musical art forms of the 20th century.

    View full page
  • 20th Century Music for Flute & Guitar
    Sale

    20th Century Music for Flute & Guitar

    Naxos Nov 2021
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99 $13.99Save 30%