Vision of Peace: The Art of Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• ASIN: B00005B4MW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,967 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Vision of Peace is a reissue compilation of two of Ravi Shankar's most celebrated Deutsche Grammophon LP recordings 'Towards the Rising Sun' and 'Ravi Shankar Plays Ragas' dating from the late 70's. Shankar's crossover efforts during this period were groundbreaking in their day (indeed, how many have followed his lead in ours!) and here for instance Japanese koto virtuoso Susumo Miyashita and shakuhachi master Hozan Yamamoto are featured in the ensemble in five selections. This is a joyous, inspired celebration by India's most renowned living musical ambassador of peace.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great performances, September 21, 2004

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H. P. Ramesh "HPR" (Cupertino, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vision of Peace: The Art of Ravi Shankar (Audio CD)

Ravi Shankar is a very great musician and his music represent the profound and spiritual tradition of Indian classical music. His experiments are not just limited to Indian music and in this 2-CD collection, you can see the popular and easy-listening tracks in the first CD and a pure classical and elaborate exploration of the meditative raga Jogeshwari in the second CD. The second CD also has a lilting evening melody called Hameer. Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Explorations into World Music, January 5, 2010

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directions "neuralbuddhist" (Space Time Foam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vision of Peace: The Art of Ravi Shankar (Audio CD)

This compilation collects several of Ravi Shankar's lesser known but crucial recordings. The second disc captures two essential of his known explorations into the ragas that are the standard of Indian classical music but leave much ground for improvisation. The first disc however, is the stand out as it finally brings to cd, a long out of print lp "East Greets East" that has Ravi Shankar playing with known Japanese classical musicians and the interplay between the Japanese classical pieces (with standard instrumentation such as the koto and shakuhachi) and the sitar and tabla (with room for solo works from each group) create an essential interplay between two genres of traditional ethnic music that leave out the new age trappings that often dampen the genre of world music. This is one of Ravi Shankar's most successful collaborations becauase: West Meets East: The Historic Shankar Menuhin Collection is somewhat unsuccesful in that Ravi Shankar's music does not benefit from traditional western orchestration and:
Passages although an idea that was long overdue (since Philip Glass was inspired to begin his journey into minimalism by working with directly with Ravi Shankar) is somewhat less than successful again due to the quasi new age aspects of the work (a genre which has become dated, while the important works within it have returned to the original genres they stemmed from as new age from the beginning was destroyed by rampant commercialism). Although clearly as a first listen one would purchase a more known work by Ravi Shankar such as:
India's Master Musician with "Vision of Peace" having three classic ragas plus an exploration into world music that has never been attempted before or since by Ravi Shankar this is a well worthwhile purchase.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ahhhhh...., October 5, 2007

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Colleen "If it's not fun, what's the point?" (Rocky Mountains, Fly Over Country) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Vision of Peace: The Art of Ravi Shankar (Audio CD)

I live in an area with almost no world cuisine culture, and I wanted to introduce my family to the tastes and sounds of India. I purchased this CD for background music to go with a nice spicy biryani. CD #2 provided the PERFECT background music to a perfect meal! The instruments are clear and crisp and the sound quality is amazing. It wisks you away to a far away land. I listened to the CD while cooking our meal and it felt as if I had entered into an Indian Restaurant, or at least what I imagined in my dreams that an Indian restaurant would be like. It set the perfect mood.

Party suggestion: Set the table low, wrap a Saree around you, brush up on your Indian table manners, glide CD #2 into the player and cook up a nice curry dinner. After dinner do some Henna Tattoos (kit) and try some bellydancing (DVD). What a nice treat for your family or friends.