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The Raga Guide: Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Nimbus Records
Category: Music
List Price: $46.98
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 24200
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 5536
UPC: 710357553622
EAN: 0710357553622
ASIN: B00000JT5P
Release Date: March 2, 2004
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Abhogi | | • | Adana | | • | Ahir Bhairav | | • | Alhaiya Bilaval | | • | Asavari | | • | Bageshri | | • | Bahar | | • | Basant | | • | Bhairav | | • | Bhairavi - Chaurasia, Haripras | | • | Bhatiyar | | • | Bhimpalasi | | • | Bhupal Todi | | • | Bhupali | | • | Bibhas | | • | Bihag | | • | Bilaskani Todi | | • | Brindabani Sarang |
Disc 2
| • | Chandrakauns | | • | Chayanat | | • | Darbari Kanada | | • | Desh | | • | Deshi | | • | Dhani | | • | Durga | | • | Gaud Malhar | | • | Guad Sarang | | • | Gorakh Kalyan | | • | Gujari Todi | | • | Gunakri | | • | Hamir | | • | Hansadhvani | | • | Hindol | | • | Jaijaivanti | | • | Jaunpuri | | • | Jhinjhoti |
Disc 3
| • | Jog | | • | Jogiya | | • | Kafi | | • | Kamod | | • | Kedar | | • | Khamaj | | • | Kirvani | | • | Lalit | | • | Madhuvanti - Shankar, Ravi | | • | Malkauns | | • | Manj-Khamaj | | • | Maru Bihag | | • | Marva | | • | Megh | | • | Miyan Ki Malhar | | • | Miyan Ki Todi | | • | Multani | | • | Nayaki Kanada | | • | Patdip | | • | Pilu |
Disc 4
| • | Puriya | | • | Puriya Dhanashri | | • | Puriya Kalyan | | • | Purvi | | • | Rageshri | | • | Ramkali | | • | Shahana | | • | Shankara | | • | Shri | | • | Shuddh Kalyan | | • | Shuddh Sarang | | • | Shyam Kalan | | • | Sindhura | | • | Sohini | | • | Sur Malhar | | • | Tilak Kamod | | • | Tilang | | • | Yaman |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
These four CDs tucked into a meaty, comprehensive book portray and explain the different histories, tonalities, and rhythms of 74 of Hindu's most common ragas. The raga, a musical form of ancient Hindustani prayer and poetry, has been the cornerstone of Indian music for centuries, evolving into a complex set of expressions inviting improvisation and varying according to purpose, mood, story, and ritual. Stately in their sounds, ragas are most often created with sitar, sarod, tabla, tamboura (or drone), and voice with each note functioning as an evocation of the world's sanctity. The Raga Guide offers five hours and 15 minutes of stunningly beautiful music, played by masters of the instrument and accompanied by informative description, music transcriptions, and (where applicable) texts with English translations. Lovingly recorded, carefully authored, simply laid out, this wonderful package is the essence of perfection, topped off by exquisite color plates of ragamalas, or paintings depicting the stories of the ragas. A sublime tribute to Indian classical music. --Karen Karleski
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 QUITE GOOD !!!!!! November 9, 2008
The music was very good, short, but very good. About the only thing that was not so good was the ease which with the cd's fall out, so be careful. I would buy some jewel cases for them, too bad one has to do this with this set, but....
 A must have compilation August 10, 2008
Excellent product, well written book, and well recorded CDs. Gives you a brief history of Indian Classical Music and explains major ragas. CDs has compilations by renowned artists. Highly recommended.
Exquisite samples of timeless Hindustani ragas performed beautifully. January 10, 2008
This set is an overview of classical Hindustani Music of the Raga genere. The book gives one a great tutorial of ragas in general and then each specific piece corresponding to the 4 attached CDs. Also the book contains the libretto for vocal numbers in Hindi and translation of the same in English. The Hindi portion is of great help if one wishes to follow the vocal numbers closely.
The artists are top notch. Folks familiar with this music will recognize Buddahdev, Hariprasad, Chausaria, and Shruti. The recoding quality is very good. I just can't get over the marvelous intonations of Shruti Sadoliker.
The music is just plain beautiful with a timeless quality and "clean", viz., you get genuine instrumentation and vocals not a corrupt work using modern instruments. Each piece needs to be savoured and enjoyed for sheer beauty and the logic of the movements.
One caveat. The packaging leaves lot to be desired as other reviewers have pointed out. But considering the price and what you get this is a tremendous bargain. If you wish to get a starting reference point into the beautiful world of Hindustani Ragas get this set pronto!
Superb music. A must have.
Indian music course December 31, 2007
Excellent. You will receive a great overview of Indian Raga. Later you can pick & research out the indiviudual pieces that you like and listen to them in their original/long version.
So good December 31, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received this for Christmas and was so happy. The whole thing is a rather tall book with four CDs, two stuck in plastic sleeves affixed to each cover.
The information on the inside is great, and the recordings sound great. The ragas are performed either on Sarod, Flute, or Voice. I personally wish they had chosen Sitar instead of Sarod, but that is not exactly very important.
The reason I am rating this four stars instead of five is because they don't play the ascending and descending 'scales' at the beginning of each track like in Ravi Shankar's The Sounds of India. I have owned this recording for quite a while and I highly recommend it. Pandit Ravi Shankar introduces each of his four Ragas by playing the ascending and descending scales, and then has his tabla player demonstrate the particular Tal of the piece. Since that demonstration is lacking in The Raga Guide, I give it 4 stars.
The upside, however, is that you can put it on as background music or fall asleep to it; there is no talking at all.
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