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The Confluence Santoor & Piano Richard Clayderman & Rahul Sharma 12852 Narada |
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Selling over 20 million albums in 38
countries, Frenchman Richard Clayderman is one of the world's most popular
pianists. Rahul Sharma is the wunderkind and musical disciple of
the legendary santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, a family
steeped in the deep traditions of Kashmir. Together they have created an
extraordinary musical vision. Combining the elegance of Clayderman's piano
and Sharma's gentle santoor, the pair transcend musical and
cultural boundaries. What may be taken as an allegory for today's troubled
world, THE CONFLUENCE artfully demonstrates that beauty happens when two
very different worlds come together.
~ "Having visited India for the first time two years ago, I expressed to my contacts there that I would like to know more about the music and would be very interested in recording some. My colleagues approached me with the idea of a duet with Rahul Sharma. After listening to his records, I thought it was an intriguing idea to record something together. At the time, I had no idea what a santoor was. I didn't even know what it looked like! Rahul and I finally met in Mumbai and I found him humble, kind, and extremely talented. Rahul produced this album as well as arranged and wrote the music. The only problem we faced was the difference in tonality between the piano and the santoor as the instruments produce sounds on very different scales. We ended up re-arranging the piano lines to match the sound of the santoor as much as possible. In the end, the sounds these two very different instruments create together amazed us all." - Richard Clayderman |
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