Shivkumar Sharma
Shivkumar Sharma was one of the truly great visionaries in the Hindustani classical music firmament. His popularity created a knotty problem for his admirers. His success led to a demand for recordings by him, to a degree that having a Shivkumar Sharma album acted like a kind of validation for a label. Consequently the market was flooded with his recordings. His playing was consummate, and he rarely recorded a piece of work that is below par, which makes selecting a shortlist even more difficult.
Sharma's story was one of dedication. He was born in January 1938 in Jammu Kashmir. His father Uma Dutt Sharma asked him to pursue the development of the Kashmiri santoor. Being a dutiful son he obeyed and persevered despite private reservations. Though its Persian relative, the santur, had associations with Persian and Iranian classical music, elevating the Indian instrument to the classical concert platform was widely viewed as folly in conservative quarters. But Shivkumar Sharma persisted, experimented, restrung and reconfigured his instrument. His first major santoor recital took place in Bombay in February 1955, but it took, he reckons, until the 1970s to finally silence the querulous, "the die-hard connoisseurs of the music, musicologists and purists." Parallel with his development of the santoor he worked as a tabla player (he accompanied acts as diverse as the renowned Punjabi folksinger Surinder Kaur and sitar maestro Ravi Shankar), and his understanding of tabla playing and rhythm immeasurably enhanced his performance style and stagecraft. Shivkumar Sharma died in a hospital in Mumbai on May 10, 2022 from a cardiac arrest; he was 84 years old.
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Raga Jog
Indian Music - Lançado por Naïve Jazz - world em 1 de jan. de 1992
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Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussian: Classical Indian Music
World - Lançado por Network em 1 de jan. de 1991
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Yugal Bundi
Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, Kashinath Mishra
World - Lançado por Delos em 1 de jan. de 1974
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Rare Masterpiece - Raga Bhinna Kauns
World - Lançado por FreeSpirit Music em 26 de fev. de 2021
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Mountain Breeze
World - Lançado por Audiorec Classics em 1 de ago. de 1991
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The Golden Heritage
World - Lançado por Navras Records em 9 de fev. de 1998
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When Time Stood Still! (Live)
Folk - Lançado por OSMOSIS RECORDS em 20 de out. de 1982
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