Ravi Shankar discography explained

Ravi Shankar had numerous solo recordings published, including these:

Studio and live albums

• Three Ragas (1956)
• Music of India (1962)
• Improvisations (1962)
• In Concert (1962)
• Ravi Shankar (Odeon Records, India catalogue) (1963)
• India's Master Musician (1963)
• In London (1964)
• Ragas & Talas (1964)
• The Master Musicians of India (with Ali Akbar Khan) (1964)
• Portrait of Genius (1964)
• Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan (1965)
• Sound of the Sitar (1965)
• West Meets East with Yehudi Menuhin (also titled Menuhin Meets Shankar) (1967)
• In San Francisco (1967)
• The Exotic Sitar and Sarod (1967)
• Two Raga Moods (1967)
• (1967)
• A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga (1968)
• The Sounds of India (1968)
• In New York (1968)
• West Meets East, Volume 2 with Yehudi Menuhin (1968)
• Music from India serie no.8 (1968)
• A Sitar Recital (1968)
• Ravi Shankar Improvisations & theme from Pather Panchali (1968)
• Ravi Shankar's Festival from India (1968)
• Ravi Shankar (1969)
• At the Woodstock Festival (1969)
• Music of India A Dhun and a Raga with Ali Akbar Khan (1969)
• Ravi Shankar Raga Parameshwari (1970)
• Six Ragas (1970)
• The Exciting Music of Ravi Shankar (1970)
• Four Raga Moods (1971)
• PBP Ravi Shankar and PBU Ahmedjan Thirakhwa (1971)
• Joi Bangla EP (1971)
• Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra and André Previn (1971)
• The Concert for Bangladesh (1971) – side one only, with Ali Akbar Khan
• The Genius of Ravi Shankar (1972)
• Ravi Shankar (1972)
• Ravi Shankar Ragas (1972)
• The Masters of Indian Music (1972) (double album with Ali Albar Khan)
• In Concert 1972 with Ali Akbar Khan (1973)
• Ragas with Ali Akbar Khan – contains The Master Musicians of India (1964) and the Ali Akbar Khan album The Soul of Indian Music (1965) (released as a double album in 1973)
• Shankar Family & Friends (1974) – available as part of Shankar and George Harrison box set Collaborations (2010)
• Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India (1976) – available as part of Collaborations box set (2010)
• Improvisations – West Meets East 3 – with Yehudi Menuhin and Jean-Pierre Rampal (1976)
• Ravi Shankar (1979)
• Shankar in Japan (1979)
• Jazzmine (1980) – with George Adams and others
• The Spirit of India (Deutsche Grammophon, 1980)
• Homage to Mahatma Gandhi (1981)
• Raga-Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2) (1982)
• Raga Mishra Piloo: duet for sitar & sarod (1983) – with Ali Akbar Khan
• Pandit Ravi Shankar (1986)
• Tana Mana (1987)
• (1988)
• Inside the Kremlin (1988)
• Passages with Philip Glass (1990) (Atlantic Records)
• (1995)
• Genesis (1995)
• Towards the Rising Sun (1996)
• (1996)
• Chants of India (1997) – available as part of Collaborations box set (2010)
• Raga Tala (1997)
• (1998)
• (1998)
• (2000)
• (2001)
• Between Two Worlds (documentary directed by Mark Kidel) (2001)
• Flowers of India (2007)
• More Flowers of India (2008)
• Collaborations box set, with George Harrison (2010)
• Symphony with London Philharmonic Orchestra and David Murphy (2012)
• The Living Room Sessions Part 1 (2012)
• The Living Room Sessions Part 2 (2013)
• A Night at St. John the Divine (2014)
• In Hollywood, 1971 (2016)
• Ghanashyam: A Broken Branch (2017)^[1]
• Live in Copenhagen (2020)^[2]

Film music

• Neecha Nagar (1946, directed by Chetan Anand)
• The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959, directed by Satyajit Ray)
  • A Chairy Tale (1957, directed by Norman McLaren)
• Parash Pathar (1958, directed by Satyajit Ray)
• Anuradha (1960, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
• Godaan (1963, directed by Trilok Jetley)
• Alice in Wonderland (1966, directed by Jonathan Miller) – composer of original score
• Chappaqua (1966, directed by Conrad Rooks)
• Monterey Pop (1968, documentary by D.A. Pennebaker)
• Charly (1968, directed by Ralph Nelson)
• Raga (1971, directed by Howard Worth)
• The Concert for Bangladesh by Saul Swimmer (1972) organized by George Harrison with Ravi Shankar
• Viola (1973, produced by R. Davis), British art film, soundtrack album: Transmigration Macabre, Spark Records SRLM 2002
• Forbidden Image (1974, directed by Jeremy Marre)
• Meera (1979, Directed by Gulzar)
• Gandhi (1982, directed by Richard Attenborough), (Academy Award nomination for Shankar and George Fenton)
• Genesis (1986)
• Concert for George (2003, directed by David Leland)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nine Decades Vol. 5: Ravi Shankar's Ghanashyam A Broken Branch . East Meets West Music . 2022-09-20.
2. Web site: Ravi Shankar Nine Decades Vol. 7: Live in Copenhagen . East Meets West Music . 2022-09-20.