LPO/Murphy | Classical review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonCultural cross-fertilisation between India and the west existed long before 1966, when George Harrison visited Ravi Shankar in Varanasi and long before Shankar himself first visited Paris as a teenager while touring with his brother in the 30s. Why, then, do we consider only the more recent fruits of this process, as in this predictable pairing of Ravi Shankar's new symphony with the first violin concerto of Philip Glass.Composed for amplified solo sitar and orchestra,...

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