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TOP 23 MUSICIANS FROM INDIA

(All lists in www.selcukschoices.blogspot.com - Tüm listeler için www.selcukschoices.blogspot.com)

1. Ravi Shankar
2. Nitin Sawhney
3. Ustad Vilayat Khan
4. Hariprasad Chaurasia
5. Lata Mangeshkar
6. Mohammed Rafi
7. Ananda Shankar
8 Sheila Chandra
9. Shakti
10. Shankar Jaikishan
11 Nikhil Banerjee
12. Ali Akbar Khan
13. A.R. Rahman
14. Tabla Beat Science
15. Zakir Hussain
16. Talvin Singh
17. Kishore Kumar
18. Shivkumar Sharma
19. Ram Narayan
20. Mukesh
21. Anoushka Shankar
22. Trilok Gurtu
23. Asha Bhosle


Comment about missed names which should be in list and not deserving ones.

I have been listening to classical music of North India since my late teens. Now I can't think of my existence without this life-giving music. I will try to list a few great masters and their albums in this journal.

Top 25 Maestros of North Indian Classical Music

Instrumental:

Ravi Shankar
Ali Akbar Khan
Nikhil Banerjee
Shivkumar Sharma
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Bismillah Khan
Alla Rakha
Zakir Hussain
Ram Narayan
Amjad Ali Khan
Asad Ali Khan
Vilayat Khan
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan

Vocal:

Bhimsen Joshi
Jasraj
Kumar Gandharva
Amir Khan
Mallikarjun Mansur
C. R. Vyas
Kishori Amonkar
Rashid Khan
Ajoy Chakrabarty

Albums:

Daylight Ragas

Tag these artists as indian classical ...this will help build a decent Radio Station here.

Let me know if I've missed out any artists

Abdul Karim Khan
Ajay Pohankar
Ajoy Chakraborty
Akhtar Sadmani
Ali Akbar Khan
Alla Rakha
Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaj, Zakir Hussain, Fazal Qureshi, Sarwar Sabri
Alladiya Khan
Allauddin Khan
Amelia Cuni
Amelia Maciszewski
Amir Khan
Amjad Ali Khan
Anita Sen
Anoushka Shankar
Anuradha Kuber
Anuradha Pal
Anwar Khan Manghaniyar
Arati Ankalikar
Arun Dravid
Asad Ali Khan
Asha Khadilkar
Ashiq Ali Khan
Ashit Desai, Liyakant Ali Khan, Madhu Dhumal, Rakesh Chaurasia, Rupak Kulkarni, Sunil Das & Ulhas Bapat
Ashwini Bhide
Ashwini Bhide & Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande
Badar-uz-Zaman
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Barkat Ali Khan
Begum Akhtar
Bhimsen Joshi
Bikram Ghosh & Niladri Kumar
Bismillah Khan
Brij Bhushan Kabra
Budhaditya Mukherjee
Bundu Khan LangaVeena Sahasrabuddhe / Umakant & Ramakant Gundecha
C R Vyas
Chandrakantha
Channulal Mishra
Chitra Singh
D V Paluskar
Dagar Brothers
Daya Shankar
Debashish Bhattacharya
Deenanath Mangeshkar
Devaki Pandit
Dhondutai Kulkarni
Dilraj Kaur
Dilshad Khan
Dinkar Kaikini
Faiyaz Khan
Farida Khanum
fateh ali khan
Fazal Qureshi
Firoz Dastur
Gangubai Hangal
Ganpati Bhat
GAUHAR JAN
Ghulam Ali
Ghulam Hassan Shagan
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Girija Devi
Gundecha Brothers
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hariprasad Chaurasia and Fazal Qureshi
Hirabai Badodekar
Imrat Khan
Iqbal Ahmad Khan
Iqbal Bano
Ishrad Khan
Jagdish Prasad
Jawaad Ali Khan
Jayanti Sahasrabuddhe
Jayateerth Mevundi
Jitendra Abhisheki
JNAN PRAKASH GHOSH
Joseph J. Palackal
K.V.Narayanaswamy
Kabir Altaf
Kadri Gopalnath
kala ramnath
Kalapini Komkali
Kalpana Zokarkar
Kaushiki Chakrabarty
Khansahib Nasiruddin Saami
Kishori Amonkar
Krishnamurti Sridhar
Kumar Gandharva
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
Kundanlal
Kushal Das
L Shankar
L. Subramaniam
Lakshmi Shankar
Lalgudi Jayaraman
Latafat Hussain Khan
Laxmi Ganesh Tewari
M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavarthar
M S Subbulakshmi
M. Balamuralikrishna
Madhava Gudi
Madhup Mudgal
Malavika Kanan
Malini Rajurkar
Mallikarjun Mansur
Mashkoor Ali Khan
Mazhar Ali Khan
Milind Tulankar & Rajendra Kulni
Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik
Mogubai Kurdikar
Mohammad Bakhsh
Moinuddin & Aminuddin Dagar
Moumita Mitra
Munawar Ali Khan
Dr. N. Ramani
N. Rajam
Nagaraja Rao Havaldar
Nayan Ghosh
Neela Bhagwat
Nikhil Banerjee
Nikhil Ghosh
Niladri Kumar
Nirmala Devi
Nirmalya Dey
Balaram Pathak
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Pandit Jasraj
Sharda Sahai
Pannalal Ghosh
Partho Sarothy
Parveen Sultana
Parween Sultana
Prabha Atre
Praveen Godkhindi
pran nath
Purbayan Chatterjee
Raghunath Seth
Rahul Sharma
Rais Khan
Rajan & Sajan Mishra
Ramnad Krishnan
Ram Narayan
Ram Narayan, Anindo Chatterjee, Uma Mehta, Uma Phalke
Rashid Khan
Ratna Basu
Ravi Shankar
Remeber Shakti
Rita Ganguly
Ronu Majumdar
S. Balachander
Sabri Khan
Saleem Khan
Sanjeev Abhyankar
Santosh Nahar
Santosh Nahar and Shabbir Hussain
Satyasheel Deshpande
Sawai Gandharva
Sawani Shende
Sayeeduddin Dagar
Shahid Parvez
Shivkumar Sharma
Shivkumar Sharma, Brijbhushan Kabra & Hariprasad Chaurasia
Shobha Gurtu
Shruti Sadolika
Shubha Mudgal
Shujaat Khan
Sipra Bose
Subha Joshi
Sultan Khan
Taufiq Quereshi
Trilok Gurtu
Tripti Mukerjee
T.H. Vikku Vinayakram
U Srinivas
Uday Bhawalkar
Ulhas Bapat
Ulhas Kashalkar
Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain
Ustad Vilayat Khan & Pandit Kishan Maharaj
Vaishali K S
Vasundhara Komkali
Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Veena Sahasrabuddhe / Umakant & Ramakant Gundecha
Vikas Gupta
Vilayat Khan
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Zahida Parveen
Zakir Husain, Fazal Quraishi & Ustad Allah Rakha
Zakir Hussain
Zarina Begum
Zia Fariddudin Dagar
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
Zila Khan
Amjad Ali Khan & V.G. Jog

Hi folks,
For those of you who enjoy listening to traditional classical South Asian music, you're welcome to use my tag: Indian Classical

Here are all the streamable Indian classical artists I've found so far at last.fm:

Abdul Karim Khan
Ajoy Chakrabarty
Ajoy Chakraborty
Ali Akbar Khan
Alla Rakha & Zakir Hussain
Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaj, Zakir Hussain, Fazal Qureshi, Sarwar Sabri
Allauddin Khan
Amir Khan
Amjad Ali Khan
Anirban Dasgupta & Sandip Bhattacharya
Anoushka Shankar
Anuradha Pal
Asad Ali Khan
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Begum Akhtar
Bhimsen Joshi
Bismillah Khan
Brij Narayan
Buddhadev Das Gupta
Budhaditya Mukherjee
Chitti Babu
Daya Shankar
Deepak Ram
Diana Rogers
Gangubai Hangal
Ghazal
Girija Devi
Gopal Shankar Misra
Gundecha Brothers
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hila Himbala
Hirabai Barodekar
Jasraj
Jay Kishor
Jugalbandi
kala ramnath
Kartik Seshadri
Kishori Amonkar
Kumar Gandharva
Kushal Das
Lakshmi Shankar
Madhup Mudgal
Mallikarjun Mansur
Musicians & Poets Of Râjasthân
Nikhil Banerjee
Nishat Khan
Padma Talwalkar
Pandit Dulal Roy & Sandip Bhattacharya
Pandit Jasraj
Pannalal Ghosh
Prabha Atre
Purbayan Chatterjee
Purna Das Baul
Raghunath Seth
Rahul Sharma
Rais Khan
Rajan & Sajan Mishra
Rajan & Sajan Mishra & Shruti Sadolikar
Rajan & Sajan Mishra, Shahid Parvez, Shruti Sadolikar
Ram Narayan
Rattan Mohan Sharma
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan
Sanjeev Abhyankar
Sarwar Sabri
Sayeeduddin Dagar
Shahid Parvez
Shankar
Shankar Family & Friends
Shiv Kumar Sharma
Shivkumar Sharma
Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussain
Shobha Gurtu
Shruti Sadolikar
Shubha Mudgal
Shujaat Khan
Steve Smith and Zakir Hussain
Sultan Khan
Swami Chidvilasananda
Uday Bhawalkar
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
ustad bismillah khan
Ustad Sabri Khan
Ustad Sarahang
Ustad Shahid Parvez
Ustad Shujaat Khan
Ustad Vilayat Khan
V.G. Jog
Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Vikas Gupta
Vilayat Khan
Zakir Hussain

I also appreciate these categories, which are substantially different:

Carnatic(classical music from the south of India)
Qawwali (classical Sufi-inspired singing from Pakistan & Afghanistan)
South Asian (other non-classical non-pop music from the countries south of the Himlayas)
Asian Underground (south- and central Asian music with an electronic element)

Also:
bhangra (a type of Pakistani pop music)
bollywood (general South Asian popular soundtrack music)

South Asian classical music can be found in these groups:

Eastern Invasion
Indian Classical Music
Sitar
South Asian Roots

In my opinion, tags such as "world", "ethnic", and "fusion" are meaningless because they are deeply ethnocentric and they fail to provide any useful differentiatiation.

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php


My eclectic score is currently





Some of the related artists for my profile are ATB, Above & Beyond, , Ali Akbar Khan, Armin van Buuren, Badmarsh & Shri, Bryan Adams, Cheb i Sabbah, Chicane, Coldplay,Deep Forest, Enigma, Enya,Ferry Corsten, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ian Van Dahl, , MIDIval PunditZ ,Moby, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Paul van Dyk, , R.E.M., Ravi Shankar, Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Richard Marx, Savage Garden, Shakti, TJ Rehmi, Tabla Beat Science, Talvin Singh, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Vangelis, Westlife,Zakir Hussain, Trilok Gurtu, Queen, Afterlife, Nitin Sawhney, Karsh Kale, DJ TiëstoLed Zeppelin

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently




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This post lists, with minor additions, the music available on Roger Kamien's multi-disc set of Music: An Appreciation. Below I have briefly noted what the music is for and share my views. For a more detailed list of classical music, see Piero Scaruffi's site.

General
Lohengrin, Prelude to Act III
C-Jam Blues
The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Based on sonata in a by Henry Purcell.
Farandole from L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Musical form: ex. dance
Dance of the Reed Pipes from Nutcracker Suite
ex. 2 two-part form A-A-B-B
Forlane from Suite No. 1 in C Major for Orchestra

Medieval
Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam (We Have Seen His Star)
O Successores (You Successors)
Estampie
Agnus Dei from Notre Dame Mass

Renaissance
Josquin Ave Maria . . . virgo serena
Pope Marcellus Mass
As Vesta was descending
Passamezzo and Galliard, from Terpsichore by Michael Praetorius

Baroque
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major. The harpsichord solo is rad.
Organ Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue). I prefer the rendition by Canadian Brass.
Act II: Tu se' morta (You are dead) from Orfeo
Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas
Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 10
La Primavera (Spring), Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 8, No. 1, from The Four Seasons
Suite No. 3 In D Major
Cantata No. 140: Wachet auf, Ruft Uns Die, Stimme (Awake, a Voice is Calling Us)
Ev'ry Valley Shall be Exalted, from Messiah
Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah

Classical
Symphony No. 40 In G Minor, K. 550
Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music)
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Act 1: Excerpt from Opening Scene of Don Giovanni
Act 1: Leporello's catalog aria (Madamina) from Don Giovanni
Piano Concerto No. 23 In A Major
Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 (Pathetique)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Romantic
Erlkönig
Estrella from Carnaval (Carnival)
Reconnaissance (Reunion) from Carnaval (Carnival)
Romance In G Minor For Violin And Piano, Op. 22, No. 2
Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2
Étude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12 (Revolutionary)
Polonaise in A Flat Major, Op. 53
Transcendental Étude No. 10 in F Minor
Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In E Minor, Op. 64
Symphonie fantastique (Fantastic Symphony)
The Moldau. This track is very cool.
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (From the New World)
Romeo And Juliet, Overture-Fantasy
Fourth Movement: How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place, from Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)
Act III: La donna é mobile (Woman is fickle) Rigoletto
Excerpt from Act I, from La Bohème
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
Ritual of Abduction, from The Rite of Spring
La cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)
Voiles (Sails)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)

Modern Music or Modern Classical or Contemporary Classical
See here for a more detailed list of modern music.

Neoclassicism
Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Expressionism
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (Moonstruck Pierrot)
Mondestrunken (Moondrunk)
A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46
Wozzeck
Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Concerto for Orchestra
Putnam's Camp, Redding, Conneticut from Three Places in New England
Rhapsody In Blue
Afro-American Symphony
Appalachian Spring

Serialism
Milton Babbitt
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Pierre Boulez

Chance Music aka Aleatory Music
4'33"
imaginary landscape no. 4. Composed for twelve radios!
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano. Turns the piano into a percussion emsemble.
Piano Piece No. 11

Minimalist Music
Terry Riley
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
John Adams

Electronic Music
Poème électronique (Electronic Poem)
Einstein on the Beach
Satyagraha
Akhnaten
The Voyage
Koyaanisqatsi

Concerto Grosso 1985 (To Handel's Sonata in D Major for Violin and Continuo, First Movement)
String Quartet
Symphony No. 2
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Symphony No. 3

Roots of Jazz
March
Stars And Stripes Forever

Ragtime
Maple Leaf Rag
The Entertainer

Blues
See here for more.
Lost Your Head Blues

Jazz
See here for more artists and albums.

New Orleans Style or Dixieland
Ferdinand Morton
Dippermouth Blues
Louis Armstrong
When the Saints Go Marching
Oh Didn't He Ramble?
Hotter than That

Swing
Ko-Ko
Harlem Air Shaft
In a melotone
Blue Surge The preceding four tracks are available through The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz
C-Jam Blues
Glen Miller
Count Basie
Tommy Dorsey
Benny Goodman
Coleman Hawkins
Lester Young
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra

Bebop
Bloomdido

Cool Jazz
Lester Young
Stan Getz
Lennie Tristano
Miles Davis

Free Jazz
Free Jazz
John Coltrane
Albert Ayler
Arthur Doyle

Jazz Rock (Fusion)
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Chick Corea
Joe Zawinul
Wayne Shorter
Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

Musical Theater
See here for more information.

Irving Berlin
Jerome Kern
George Gershwin
Cole Porter
Richard Rodgers
Frank Loesser
Leonard Bernstein

Development of Rock
See here for more artists and albums.

'40s Rhythm and Blues
See herefor more artists and albums.

Little Richard
Chuck Berry
The Platters

50s
Rock Around the Clock
Elvis

'60s Soul
See here for more artists and albums.

James Brown
Ray Charles
Aretha Franklin
Motown
Diana Ross and The Supremes
Stevie Wonder

'64
The Beatles. Brought in wider areas of influence such as electronic effects, "classical" and nonwestern instruments, and unconventional chord progressions.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The 60s also brought in folk music and social issues.
Blowin' In The Wind

The First Rock Musical
Hair

The First Rock Opera
Tommy

70s
disco
See here for more information.

New Stars
Linda Ronstadt
Billy Joel
Bruce Springsteen
Donna Summer

country rock
See here for more information on country music in general.

reggae
See here for more information.

funk
See here for more information.

Punk, or New Wave
See here for more information.

classical rock
See here for more information.

Jazz Rock
Chicago
Weather Report
Blood, Sweat, and Tears

80s
"Second British Invasion"
Police
Culture Club
Eurhythmics

heavy metal
Quiet Riot
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Guns N' Roses

rap
See here for more information.

90s

90s rap
Dr. Dre
Snoopy Doggy Dog
Ice Cube
De La Soul

grunge or alternative rock
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Alice in Chains
Smasing Pumpkins
Nine Inch Nails
Belly
Hole

Nonwestern music

Sub-Saharan Africa
Song from Angola

Japanese
koto
Fusako Yoshida

Classical Music of India
Improvisation is very important.
Ravi Shankar
Zakir Hussain
Maru-Bihag

I'm a pianist, guitarist, and bassist, and maybe when I get around to it a violinist and a percussionist. I like to hear new, strange, unusual music, music with unusual harmonies, scales, and playing techniques. Generally, my tastes run along the general lines of punk and post-punk, melodic metal, surf,alt-rock, post-rock,trip-hop, glitch, free jazz, baroque, classical, post-modern, avant-garde, and video game music. Some specific examples are included below. My ventures into glitch, trip-hop, and free jazz have only recently started and I would appreciate music suggestions along those lines and indeed along any of the other lines I've mentioned. In a later post I will lay out what I listen for in music.
Symbolic
Slaughter of the Soul
Opiate
Undertow
Ænima
Over The Mountain
Paranoid
Crazy Train
System of a Down
Punish my heaven
The Pixies
Indian Summer
Moss Icon
Sehnsucht
Deerlodge Prison
Cities In The Dust
Face To Face
The Deftones
Methodist
Cherub Rock
Zero
God
Today
Disarm
Jellybelly
Bullets With Butterfly Wings
Love
Muzzle
The Everlasting Gaze
Stand Inside Your Love
Raindrops + Sunshowers
I Am One (Live)
The End Is The Beginning Is The End
Ava Adore
Geek USA
Boys Don't Cry
A Forest
Just Like Heaven
Zakir Hussain
Dummy
Dick Dale
Dead Can Dance
Violent Femmes
Mer De Noms
Stabbing Westward
Yasunori Mitsuda
Nobuo Uematsu
Yasuhiro Kawakami
Ryuji Sasai
Kazunaka Yamane
Yoko Shimomura
George Crumb
Univers Zero
Halloween Theme
Suspiria
Carmina Burana
Bulgarian Women's Choir
Arabesque Number 1
The Black Ark
Bells
Change Has Come