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Yehudi Menuhin & Ravi Shankar West Meets East LP |
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1966 Album Reissued On Vinyl LP!
Sitar player and composer, Ravi Shankar is joined by violinist Yehudi Menhuin
for this collaboration that merges sounds of Western music with that of the
East.
"The Raga chosen by Ravi Shankar for his piece Prabhati for solo violin and
tabla (drums) is nearly identical with the national Japanese scale. Others are
equivalent to our major and harmonic minor scales, to Greek modes, to those used
in Gypsy and Flamenco music and there are hundreds more, each expressing a
different world of feeling and thought, of which we in the West have never even
heard. I have chosen as the Western contribution to this recording the
remarkable and haunting "Sonata in the Popular Romanian Style" by George Enescu.
Although it is a Western composition in the purest sonata form, the piece exudes
the rhapsodic and improvisatory atmosphere characteristic of the Rumanian Gypsy
violinist and it is thus a rare and authentic example of improvised folk music
giving birth to a composition in an evolved Western form. The Sonata on this
record could only have come from the mind and heart of one born and bred of a
union between the intuitive world of the East and the crystallized and
consolidated world of the West." -Yehudi Menuhin
Features:
• Vinyl LP
Musicians:
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Ravi Shankar, sitar
Alla Rakha, tabla
Prodyot Sen, tanpura
Selections:
Side A:
1. Prabhati (based on Raga Gunkali)
2. Raga Puriya Kalyan
3. Swara-Kakali (based on Raga Tilang)
Side B:
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 25,
Dans le caractere populaire roumain
1. Moderato malinconi
2. Andante sostenuto
3. Allegro con brio
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