Ravi Shankar Edition

CD1

• 1. Raga Khamaj (24.45)
• 2. Raga Lalit (23.20)

CD2

• 1. Raga Mishra Piloo (56.02)

CD3

• 1. Prabhati (based on Raga Gunkali) (4.07)
• 2. Raga Puriya Kalyan (11.43)
• 3. Swara-Kakali (based on Raga Tilang) (8.45)

From ‘West Meets East vol. I’

• 4. Raga Piloo (14.40)
• 5 Dhun (6.25)
• 6. Raga Ananda Bhairava (15.35)

From ‘West Meets East vol. II’

• 7. Tenderness (8.38)
• 8. Twilight Mood (10.32)

CD4

Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra

• 1. I. Rags Khamaj (14.23)
• 2. II. Raga Sindhi Bhairavi (6.13)
• 3. III. Raga Adana (3.32)
• 4. IV. Raga Manj Khamaj (15.40)
• 5. The Enchanted Dawn (11.50)
• 6. Morning Love (based on Raga Nata Bhairav) (12.10)

CD5

Raga Mala – A Garland of Ragas (Concerto No. 2 for Sitar & Orchestra)

• 1. I. Lalit (Presto) (16.36)
• 2. II. Bairagi (Moderato) (8.11)
• 3. III. Yaman Kalyan (Moderato) (14.32)
• 4. IV. Mian ki Malhar (Allegro) (12.48)

“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. Documenting Shankar’s ground-breaking collaborations as both composer and performer with luminaries of western classical music – such as Yehudi Menuhin, André Previn, Jean-Pierre Rampal and another great Indian-born musician, Zubin Mehta – this collection also includes two discs of ragas in the purely Indian tradition.