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"Between Two Worlds" is a substantial 10-part documentary, telling the sitar player's life story up to his 80th birthday celebrations in 2000. The film is littered with archive footage, including the young Shankar performing with his brother's dance troupe, an emotional reunion with his teacher and guru Baba Allauddin Khan, and his celebrated collaborations with musicians such as John Coltrane, Yehudi Menuhin and The Beatles.
The second part features Shankar performing with a group of Indian musicians, including his daughter Anoushka, herself a celebrated sitar player, at the Union Chapel in London during summer 2002. The electric atmosphere is well captured here, as is the intimacy of the performance. A 19-minute introduction to Indian music and the sitar, delivered by Shankar himself, rounds off the set.
On the DVD: Ravi Shankar in Portrait features both stereo and surround sound options for the concert performance. Subtitles are provided in German, Spanish and French. The accompanying booklet provides a useful introduction to Shankar as well as biographies of his fellow performers. --Rebecca Agnew
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This is a great doc of Ravi's life through his music and friends and family.
The 2nd DVD is a great concert he did with the stunning Anoushka Shankar.
I was really captivated by the amazing music and by Ravi's outlook of life through his music.
This is an excellent DVD and well recommended (if you can find it).
Reflections by Ravi, on his relationship with his parents and family, lead to a description of his early travels to Venice, Paris, New York and Hollywood, where he was influenced by a range of talented composers, musicians, dancers, actors and painters. In 1938, his Brahmin origins expressed their attraction in his decision to become an austere musical disciple of the guru Ustad Allauddin Khan. He spent more that seven years with 'Baba' and came to marry his guru's daughter.
This intensive musical preparation led to Ravi assuming a role as an Indian cultural ambassador, influencing musicians as diverse as Yehudi Menuhin, John Coltrane, George Harrison and Philip Glass. The film portrays that the indisciplined excesses of the 1960's popular culture, and Ravi's own participation in this exotic milieu, led to a year and a half break from musical life and finally to a rededication to more moderate ways in the years which followed.
The film closes with a tour of the construction of the Shankar foundation in New Delhi and plays a plays brief concert excerpt in which Ravi performs with a deeply solemn and profoundly beautiful sadness. In the performance, we see that music can become almost a form of worship. A world where humility, introversion and improvisation become one in the pursuit of expressing the presence of the ineffable.
Bonus footage in the two DVD set shows Ravi in the process of constructing a new musical work with his students. A second 54 minute disc records Ravi in a live performance at the Union Chapel of London with his daughter Anoushka. If you love Indian music, then the publication of "Ravi Shankar - In Portrait" can be viewed as a rare event in world of international culture.
This DVD set on the BBC/ OPUS label is simply brilliant visualy, auraly and content-wise. The spirit and integrity to this man and his music is truly inspiring.
There are segments of Ravi teaching a piece to his young group, as well as a segment on sitars and the differences between Western and Eastern music.
Brilliant, this is by far the dearest and highest quality of my large video collection. It gets watched repeatedly.
Wait till you see the concert performances...his daughter Anoushka (who is no slouch on sitar herself) seems somewhat in awe, shaking her head in near disbelief as Ravi spins his magic.
World class.
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