Passages

Anoushka Shankar sitar  
Britten Sinfonia  
Robert Ames conductor  

Featuring

Chinranjeeb Chakraborty vocals  
Lakshay Mohan sitar  
Aayush Mohan Sarod  
Sanju Sahai tabla  
Prathap Ramachandra mridangam, ghatam, kanjira

In the mid-1960s, a young music student named Philip Glass assisted with notation for a film score by the revered sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. The experience set Glass on the path to developing his groundbreaking style of American Minimalism, and marked the beginning of a life-long friendship. In 1990, Shankar and Glass released ‘Passages’ a pioneering collaborative album that married their Indian Classical and Minimalist styles. The result is a profound musical odyssey, capturing an iconic musical meeting whose influence extends deeply into 20th-century music.  

In 2017, in commemoration of Shankar’s extraordinary life, our Guest director Anoushka Shankar and the Britten Sinfonia presented the World Premiere of Passages, performed in its entirety, at The Proms. It is that rapturously-received show that Anoushka is thrilled to resurrect with Britten Sinfonia and a specially-curated ensemble of Indian Classical musicians at Brighton this year.