Portrait Of Genius (studio album) by Ravi Shankar

Portrait Of Genius by Ravi Shankar
Year: 1965
Overall rank: 19,845th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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71/100 (from 29 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1965 (115th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (1,296th)
Award Best albums of all time (19,845th)
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Ravi Shankar bestography

Portrait Of Genius is ranked 4th best out of 33 albums by Ravi Shankar on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ravi Shankar is Music Of India - Three Classical Ragas On Sitar which is ranked number 2421 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 658.

Ravi Shankar album bestography « Higher ranked (15,108th) This album (19,845th) Lower ranked (33,986th) »
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71/100 (from 29 votes)
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From 03/09/2021 20:54
Ravi Shankar is the best known Indian classical artist which of course has lots to do with his connections with Yehudi Menuhin and especially George Harrison. He is a genius on the Indian sitar which at least has 18 strings and on this album he plays a number of shorter raga-like songs and also a real 20 minutes raga at the the end. The raga is a kind of improvisational piece but subject to very strict rules and on this album we mostly hear his sitar, a tabla (drum) and flute performed by a western jazz flutist Paul Horn.
I fairly like this mesmerizing but finally very melodic type of music and listening to this album was worthwhile but all in all maybe not a keeper for this western ear.
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From 05/22/2017 00:02
A lesser work in comparison to his utterly brilliant debut "Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas)", however "Portrait of Genius" is indeed a portrait of a genius that can still create such gorgeous compositions. The only problem here are the lengths of the songs. I wish every single track was longer except the final track, "Raga Multani", which does manage to reach the heights set by "Three Classical Ragas".
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From 03/06/2016 02:53
More Rythmic than the last Ravi Shankar album I listened to, Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas). Very fun listen.
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From 02/01/2013 15:32
One of the two or three Shankar albums that changed the course of music through the influence it had on fellow musicians (David Crosby, George Harrison et al). Apart from that, it is just simply enjoyable and ravishing.
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