Ram Narayan discography

Ram Narayan began to record music when he played on three solo 78 rpm gramophone records for the British HMV Group in 1950 and recorded an early 10 inch LP album in Mumbai in 1951. Over the following decades Narayan had numerous solo recordings published.

Album cover for the 2002 release Ragas Alhaiya Bilaval & Mishra Bhairavi, originally by Auguste Racinet (1825–1893)

Availability

Narayan's gramophone records and LP recordings are out of print. Three LPs were rereleased on CD: Volume 1, a partial rerelease of Ram Narayan en Concert, in 1989, and Inde du Nord in 1998 and Raga Puria Kalyan in 1999. Since the 2000s, the releases by Music Today, Nimbus Records, The Gramophone Company, Universal Music India, and Venus Records have become available in online music stores. The content of The Gramophone Company is available as streaming media from its successor Sa Re Ga Ma at no charge.

List of recordings
Year Album details Notes
c. 1950 Ram Narayan – Sarangi
  • Track list:
  1. "Lalat"
  2. "Marva"
c. 1950 Ram Narayan – Sarangi
  • Label: The Gramophone Company (HMV N 92619)
  • Format: 78 rpm gramophone record
  • Track list:
  1. "Gunkali"
  2. "Puria Kalyan"
c. 1950 Ram Narayan – Sarangi Solo
  • Label: The Gramophone Company (HMV N 92520)
  • Format: 78 rpm gramophone record, digital audio[1]
  • Track list:
  1. "Pilu thumri"
  2. "Gujari Todi"
c. 1957 Ram Narayan Plays Sarangi – The Indian Musical Instrument
  • Label: A Treasure from Solomon's Mines (SME 3/4)
  • Format: LP
  • Track list:
  1. "Asavari"
  2. "Des"
  • Recorded 1951 with Abdul Karim on tabla
1961 Ramnarain – Sarangi
  • Label: The Gramophone Company (HMV 7 EPE 1212)
  • Format: LP, digital audio[1]
  • Track list:
  1. "Gavati"
  2. "Chandrakauns"
1962 Ramnarain – Sarangi
  • Label: The Gramophone Company (HMV 7 EPE 1251)
  • Format: LP, digital audio[1]
  • Track list:
  1. "Bhairavi thumri"
  2. "Jog"
1964 Inde du Nord – Ragas du Matin et du Soir
  • Label: BAM (LD 094)
  • Format: LP
  • Track list:
  1. "Ragini Shuddh Todi"
  2. "Tala Lila Vihan"
  3. "Raga Marva"
  • Chatur Lal on tabla
1967 Beat and Bow
  • Label: The Gramophone Company (HMV EALP 1312)
  • Format: LP, digital audio[2]
  • Track list:
  1. "Tintal"
  2. "Patadeep"
  3. "Mishra Khamaj thumri"
  • Chatur Lal (track one) and Nizamuddin Khan (tracks two and three) on tabla
1968 Pandit Ram Narayan – Sarangi
  • Label: The Gramophone Company (HMV EALP 1327)
  • Format: LP, digital audio[3]
  • Track list:
  1. "Saraswati"
  2. "Marubihag"
  3. "Pilu thumri"
  • Manikrao Popatkar on tabla
1968 Sarangi – The Voice of a Hundred Colors – Instrumental Music of North India
  • Track list:
  1. "Nand-Kedar"
  2. "Jogia"
  3. "Dhun"
  • Mahapurush Misra on tabla
1969 Ram Narain – Sarangi
  • Label: The Gramophone Company (HMV EASD 1340)
  • Format: LP, digital audio[4]
  • Track list:
  1. "Gujari Todi"
  2. "Lalit"
  3. "Bhairavi keharwa"
  • Shashi Bellare on tabla
1970 Pandit Ramnarain – Sarangi Recital
  • Label: The Gramophone Company (HMV EASD 1361)
  • Format: LP, CD
  • Track list:
  1. "Yaman"
  2. "Des thumri"
  3. "Komal Rishabh Asavari"
  4. "Dhun"
  • Shashi Bellare (track one and two) and Suresh Talwalkar (track three and four) on tabla, rereleased on CD in 2004 by Saregama India Limited as Pt. Ram Narain
1971 Inde du Nord – Pandit Ram Narayan – Sarangi
  • Label: Ocora (OCR 69)
  • Format: LP, CD, digital audio[5]
  • Track list:
  1. "Bairagi-Bhairav"
  2. "Madhuvanti"
  3. "Kirvani"
  • Suresh Talwalkar on tabla, recorded on 17 May 1971 in Paris, France, rereleased in 1998 on CD with a fourth track, "Shankara", recorded in 1979 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai
1975 Master of the Sarangi – Classical Music of India
  • Label: Nonesuch (H 72062)
  • Format: LP
  • Track list:
  1. "Rag: Sri"
  2. "Tabla solo"
  3. "Rag: Bhupal Todi"
  4. "Rag: Kafi Malhar"
  • Suresh Talwalkar on tabla
1975 Raga Puria Kalyan
  • Label: AMIGO (AMLP 861)
  • Format: LP, digital audio[6]
  • Track list:
  1. "Puria Kalyan"
  • Suresh Talwalkar on tabla, recorded on 23 November 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden, and rereleased on CD in 1999 with three tracks (AMCD 901)
1979 Ram Narayan (Sarangi)
  • Label: STIL (2611S78)
  • Format: LP
  • Track list:
  1. "Saraswati"
  2. "Mishra Bhairavi"
  3. "Jogia"
  • Suresh Talwalkar on tabla
1981 Pandit Ram Narayan – The Sarangi Maestro
  • Label: Polydor (2392 967)
  • Format: LP
  • Track list:
  1. "Puriya Dhanashree"
  2. "Mishra Tilang"
1984 Ram Narayan – Stil's Sunday Solo
  • Label: STIL (1804S82)
  • Format: LP
  • Track list:
  1. "Shudh Sarang"
  2. "Multani"
  • Suresh Talwalkar on tabla
1984 Ram Narayan en Concert
  • Label: Ocora (558624/25)
  • Format: LP
  • Track list:
  1. "Purya Kalyan"
  2. "Mishra Pilu"
  3. "Shankara"
  • Suresh Talwalkar on tabla on tracks one and two, recorded on 11 November 1978 at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, , track one rereleased on CD in 1989 as Volume 1, Shiv Narayan on tabla on track three, recorded in 1979 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, and included in the rerelease of Inde du Nord in 1998
1988 Rag Bhupal Tori, Rag Patdip
  • Label: Nimbus (NI 5119)
  • Format: CD, digital audio[7]
  • Track list:
  1. "Rag Bhupal Tori"
  2. "Rag Patdip"
  • Suresh Talwalkar on tabla, recorded on 3 and 4 December 1987 at Wyastone Leys, near Monmouth, Wales
1989 Rag Lalit
  • Label: Nimbus (NI 5183)
  • Format: CD, digital audio[8]
  • Track list:
  1. "Rag Lalit"
  • Suresh Talwalkar on tabla, recorded on 3 December 1987 at Wyastone Leys, near Monmouth, Wales
1989 Volume 1
  • Label: Ocora (OCR 83)
  • Format: CD
  • Track list:
  1. "Rag Purya-Kalyan: Alap, Jor, Jhala"
  2. "Rag Purya-Kalyan: Bandish, Drut"
  • Suresh Talwalkar on tabla, rerelease of track one of the 1984 release Ram Narayan en Concert
1990 Rag Shankara, Rag Mala in Jogia
  • Label: Nimbus (NI 5245)
  • Format: CD, digital audio[9]
  • Track list:
  1. "Rag Shankara"
  2. "Rag Mala in Jogia"
  • Anindo Chatterjee on tabla, recorded on 15 and 16 November 1989 at Wyastone Leys, near Monmouth, Wales
1991 Maestro's Choice
  • Label: Music Today (CD A 91009)
  • Format: CD, digital audio[10]
  • Track list:
  1. "Raga Marwa"
  2. "Mishra Des"
  3. "Mishra Bhairavi"
  • Subhash Chandra on tabla, original sound recording made by Living Media India Ltd.
1994 Masters of Raga
  • Label: WERGO (SM 1601-2)
  • Format: CD
  • Track list:
  1. "Rag Marwa: Alap"
  2. "Rag Marwa: Gats in Teental and Ektal"
  3. "Rag Mishra Pilu: Alap and Gats in Chachar and Teental"
1995 Sarangee Wadan
  • Track list:
  1. "Raga Bhatiyar"
  2. "Raga Madhuwanti"
  3. "Mishra Khamaj Thumri"
1997 Immortal Essence
  • Label: Universal Music India
  • Format: CD, digital audio[12]
  • Track list:
  1. "Raga Jogia"
  2. "Raga Shuddha Sarang"
  3. "Raga Darbari"
  • Dilshad Khan on tabla, rereleased in 2005 as Immortal Essence - Sarangi: Pt. Ram Narayan (06024 982 9612)
1997 Sonorous Strings of Sarangi
  • Label: Oriental (CD-118)
  • Format: CD
  • Track list:
  1. "Raga: Gujri Todi: Vilambit Gat in Teental"
  2. "Raga: Behag: Madhya Laya Gat in Teental"
  3. "Raga: Misra Bhairavi"
  • Sukhvinder Singh on tabla
2002 Ragas Alhaiya Bilaval & Mishra Bhairavi
  • Label: Nimbus (NI 5636)
  • Format: CD, digital audio[13]
  • Track list:
  1. "Raga Alhaiya Bilaval: Alap"
  2. "Raga Alhaiya Bilaval: Compositions in slow and fast Tintal"
  3. "Raga Mishra Bhairavi: Alap"
  4. "Raga Mishra Bhairavi: Composition in fast Tintal"
  • Anindo Chatterjee on tabla, recorded in November 1989 at Wyastone Leys, near Monmouth, Wales, track three covered by the Kronos Quartet on their 2009 album Floodplain
2002 Raga Jaunpuri and Raga Kafi Malhar
  • Label: Zig-Zag Territoires (ZZTI 021101)
  • Format: CD
  • Track list:
  1. "Raga Jaunpuri"
  2. "Raga Kafi Malhar"
  • Vineet Vias on tabla, recorded in October 2000 in Paris, France
2003 Swar Shikhar
  • Label: Virgin Records (583194)
  • Format: CD
  • Track list:
  1. "Raag Shree: Alaap, Jod, Taanas"
  2. "Raag Shree: Vilambit, Drut"
  3. "Raag Mishra Bhairavi"
  • Ram Narayan, Aruna Narayan Kalle, and Harsh Narayan on sarangi, Aneesh Pradhan on tabla, recorded in February 2002 at the Nehru Centre, Mumbai[14]
2008 Akashvani Sangeet - Pandit Ram Narayan - Sarangi - Volume - One
  • Track list:
  1. "Raag - Gaud Sarang"
  2. "Raag - Malkauns"
  3. "Raag - Mishra Kafi (Tappa Ang)"
  • Gaud Sarang recorded 3 November 1979, Malkauns and Mishra Kafi recorded 12 May 1979
2008 Akashvani Sangeet - Pandit Ram Narayan - Sarangi - Volume - Two
  • Label: All India Radio
  • Format: CD
  • Track list:
  1. "Raag - Multani"
  2. "Raag - Abhogi Kanada"
  3. "Raag - Bhairavi"
  • Multani and Bhairavi recorded 3 November 1979, Abhogi Kanada recorded October 1981
2009 The Legends of India
  • Label: NA Classical Audio Pvt Ltd. (NACCD 1117)
  • Format: CD
  • Track list:
  1. "Raag Bhupaltodi"
  2. "Raag Kaushikdhwani"
  3. "Raag Jogiya"
  • Music director: Narayan Agarwal
2013 Pandit Ram Narayan
  • Label: Doordarshan Archives
  • Format: DVD
  • Track list:
  1. "Raga: Bhatiyar"
  2. "Raga: Saraswati Todi"
  3. "Raga: Bhupal Todi"
  4. "Raga: Barwa"
  5. "Raga: Shree"
  6. "Raga: Shankara"
  7. "Raga: Malhar"
  8. "Raga: Mishra Peelu"
  9. "Raga: Jogia"
  10. "Vande Mataram"
  • Brij Narayan joins for "Raga: Shree" and Aruna Narayan Kalle joins for "Raga: Mishra Peelu"
2019 Namah by Thaikkudam Bridge
  • Format: digital audio[15]
  • Track list:
  1. "Saawariya"
  • Narayan performs as a guest musician on the opening track of the album

Footnotes
  1. "Pt. Ram Narayan - The Unparalleled Maestro". Saregama. Retrieved 2020-07-08. The albums Ram Narayan – Sarangi and Ram Narayan – Sarangi Solo of ca. 1950, and Ramnarain – Sarangi of 1961 and 1962.
  2. "Beat And Bow". Saregama. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  3. "Pt. Ram Narayan - Sound Of Tradition". Saregama. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  4. "The Greatest Hits Of Pt. Ram Narayan". Google Play Music. Retrieved January 5, 2017. The album Ram Narain – Sarangi of 1969.
  5. "North India: The Art of the Sarangi". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  6. "Raga Puria-Kalyan". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  7. "Rag Bhupal Tori / Rag Patdip". Amazon.com. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  8. "Rag Lalit". Amazon.com. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  9. "Rag Shankara, Rag Mala in Jogia". Amazon.com. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  10. "Sarangi". Amazon.com. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  11. "Pt. Ram Narayan (Sarangee Wadan)". Amazon.com. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  12. "Immortal Essence". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  13. "Rag Alhaiya Bilaval & Rag Mishra Bhairavi". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  14. "Chords & Notes". The Hindu. 19 May 2003. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  15. "Namah". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.

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