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Release Date: 2020-05-15

Label: Warner Classics

CD 1
Ravi Shankar sitar · Alla Rakha tabla · Kamala Chakravarti tanpura
Recorded: 24.IV.1967, Studio No. 3, Abbey Road, London / Producer: Ronald Kinloch Anderson · Balance engineer: Robert Gooch
℗ 1967 & Remastered ℗ 2012 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company

CD 2
Ravi Shankar sitar · Ali Akbar Khan sarod · Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain table Nodu Mullick, R.C. Verma, Daniel Karp tambura
Recorded live: 5.V.1982, Carnegie Hall, New York (Live) / Producer: Patti Laursen · Balance engineer: Stanley Tonkel
℗ 1983 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company

CD 3
Track 1-2-3 From ‘West Meets East vol. I’
Track 4-5-6 From ‘West Meets East vol. II’
Track 7-8 From ‘Improvisations’
Ravi Shankar sitar (2-8), Yehudi Menuhin violin (1, 3-4, 7-8), Alla Rakha tabla (1, 4-8) · Kamala Chakravarti tambura (4-5),
Nodu Mullick tambura (6-8) · Amiya Dasgupta bass tanpura (7-8)
Recorded: 3-4.VII.1966, Studio No. 1, Abbey Road (1-3); XII.1967, New York City (4-6); 2.IV.1976 Studio A, Capitol Records, Hollywood (7-8)
Producer: Ronald Kinloch Anderson (1-3), Robert Arnold (4-6), Patti Laursen (7-8) / Balance engineer: Neville Boyling (1-3),
Frank Abbey (4-6), Carson Taylor (7-8)
℗ 1966 (1-3), 1968 (4-6), 1976 (7-8); Remastered ℗ 1999 (5) & 2016 (1-4, 6-8) Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company

CD 4
Track 1-4 Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra
Ravi Shankar sitar · Terence Emery bongos
London Symphony Orchestra · André Previn
Track 5-6 From ‘Improvisations’
Jean-Pierre Rampal flute, Martine Geliot harp (5), Ravi Shankar sitar · Alla Rakha tabla · Kamala Chakravarti tanpura (6)
Recorded: 29-31.V.1971, Studio No. 1, Abbey Road, London (1-4); 19-21.VIII.1976, Boulogne Studios, Paris (5-6)
Producer: Christopher Bishop (1-4), John Mordler (5-6) · Balance engineer: Christopher Parker (1-4), Jean-Claude Lefèvre (5-6)
℗ 1971/Remastered ℗ 2012 (1-4), 1976/Remastered ℗ 1988 (5-6) Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company

CD 5
Raga Mala – A Garland of Ragas (Concerto No. 2 for Sitar & Orchestra)
Ravi Shankar sitar / London Philharmonic Orchestra · Zubin Mehta
Recorded: 23.III.1982, Kingsway Hall, London / Producer: John Fraser · Balance engineer: Christopher Parker
℗ 1982 & Remastered ℗ 1998 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company