✺ West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions ✺ West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions collects the best from Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin's three West Meets East albums. This compilation features Prabhati and Swara-Kakali from the first album, Raga Piloo and Dhun from the second, and Tenderness and Twilight Mood from the third. All of the tracks feature the hypnotic interplay of Menuhin's violin and Shankar's sitar that made the individual albums critically and commercially popular when they were first released. (Angel originally issued … read more
✺ West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions ✺ West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions collects the best from Ravi Shankar…read more
✺ West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions ✺ West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions collects the best from Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin's three West… read more
That a Western violinist should choose to pair with the illustrious Ravi Shankar is not in itself surprising. The violin was fully absorbed (and tuned much lower) by the Indian classical music establishment by the 19th century, and more recently …. However, aside from being a highly accomplished set of recordings, the "West Meets East" series (three Menuhin-Shankar collaborations that were later distilled into this one) elevated world music to new heights. Menuhin had championed Indian music in the West for years before learning how to play it. His sensitivity to the… read more
That a Western violinist should choose to pair with the illustrious Ravi Shankar is not in itself surprising. The violin was fully absorbed (and tuned much lower) by the Indian classical mu… read more
That a Western violinist should choose to pair with the illustrious Ravi Shankar is not in itself surprising. The violin was fully absorbed (and tuned much lower) by the Indian classical music establishment by the 19th century, and mor… read more