Album lore

The Ravi Shankar Collection, issued by Warner Classics in 2012, assembles fifty-three tracks spanning the sitar maestro’s prolific output. This compilation gathers key exemplars of Indian classical music, including renditions of Raga Khamaj and concertos for sitar and orchestra, such as the multi-movement Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra No. 1. Listeners encounter ragas like Sindhi Bhairavi, Adana, and Manj Khamaj, alongside later recordings like the 1998 remastered Raga Puriya Kalyan and Swara-Kakali.This collection offers a broad survey of Shankar’s work from studio sessions to orchestral collaborations, charting his role in bringing sitar music to wider audiences. The featured track, “Shankar: Raga Khamaj,” illustrates his delicate command of the instrument and the modal intricacies of the raga form. As an archive piece, it preserves the resonance of a lineage that shaped world music through a distinctly Indian classical idiom.

Album lore

The Ravi Shankar Collection, issued by Warner Classics in 2012, assembles fifty-three tracks spanning the sitar maestro’s prolific output. This compilation gathers key exemplars of Indian classical music, including renditions of Raga Khamaj and concertos for sitar and orchestra, such as the multi-movement Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra No. 1. Listeners encounter ragas like Sindhi Bhairavi, Adana, and Manj Khamaj, alongside later recordings like the 1998 remastered Raga Puriya Kalyan and Swara-Kakali.This collection offers a broad survey of Shankar’s work from studio sessions to orchestral collaborations, charting his role in bringing sitar music to wider audiences. The featured track, “Shankar: Raga Khamaj,” illustrates his delicate command of the instrument and the modal intricacies of the raga form. As an archive piece, it preserves the resonance of a lineage that shaped world music through a distinctly Indian classical idiom.