Pandit 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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12 álbum(ns) • Ordenado por Mais vendidos
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The Flow of Time
World - Lançado por Navras Records em 20 de jul. de 2012
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A Morning Raga Gurjari Todi with Pandit Shivkumar Sharma
World - Lançado por Navras Records em 1 de jan. de 1994
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The Valley Recalls, Vol. 2 (Live)
World - Lançado por Navras Records em 15 de set. de 2000
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Santoor Viraasat, Vol. 1
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Zakir Hussain
World - Lançado por Ninaad Music em 1 de jan. de 1998
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Enchanting Moments
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Shafaat Ahmed Khan
World - Lançado por Ninaad Music em 1 de jan. de 1996
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Santoor Viraasat, Vol. 2
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Zakir Hussain
World - Lançado por Ninaad Music em 1 de jan. de 1998
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Samman 70 (Live)
World - Lançado por Navras Records em 1 de out. de 2008
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An Audience with Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (Live)
World - Lançado por Navras Records em 28 de jul. de 2009
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Raga Puriya (Live)
World - Lançado por Navras Records em 24 de mai. de 2011
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Beyond Horizon (Instrumental)
Indian Music - Lançado por Universal Music India Pvt Ltd. em 1 de jan. de 1994
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Shivkumar Sharma - Santoor
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Zakir Hussain
World - Lançado por Moment Records em 1 de jan. de 1993
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Positive Feelings
World - Lançado por Ninaad Music em 1 de jan. de 2006
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