The Confluence
SANTOOR & PIANO
The Confluence is a fusion of the East with the West , the Santoor versus (or rather-with) the Piano, Rahul Sharma and Richard Clayderman.
About Rahul Sharma
To introduce him – Son and youngest disciple of India’s greatest Santoor Vaadak Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma. Started learning the Santoor when he was 12 and first performance at 24 (Norway festival 1996), he has come a long way in a short span, today being the most sought after santoor player-not only in India, but all over the globe. Extremely innovative and experimentative, Rahul is sure Maestro in the Making !
Santoor is a Persian instrument (in Persian – it means a hundred strains) introduced in Indian classical music during the 15th century, very similar to the hammered dulcimer. A flat instrument made of a wooden box, the santoor has 30 to 40 groups of 3 iron strings, played with two metal forks. In Sanskrit , its called the Shata Tantri Veena - or the hundred stringed flute.
About Richard Clayderman
Richard Clayderman has done what virtually no other French act has ever done..... established a truly international career as a best selling recording artist and concert performer.
His father, a piano teacher, laid the foundation for his son’s later success and began teaching him how to play at a very young age. It is said that, at the age of six, Richard Clayderman could read music more adeptly than his native French.
It was the start of what has become an outstanding success story, and since that time, Richard Clayderman’s distinctive piano style has earned him superstar status all over the world. Today he has recorded over 1,000 melodies
TRACKS
Each track is a masterpiece by itself, would be an impossible task to compare them with each other. Each one would evoke different feelings in different listeners depending on the mood and the surroundings and ofcourse vary with the person you are listening with………..
My personal favourite out of the 10 are Jaisalmer & Dekha ek Khwab and hence the special details !!
1. Together - Piano and Santoor
(Rahul Sharma)
2. Jaisalmer - - Piano and Santoor
(Rahul Sharma)
Here- one actually gets transported amidst the sand dunes, camels, the beauty of this place called Rajasthan- one can feel and experience the colour and the romance , the beauty of the deserts in its ultimate form. The santoor dominates in the major part of this track ! Exceptionally haunting and exquisite- If the beauty of Indian Deserts had to be done in a musical form, it couldn’t be done better than this.
3. Yeh hai bambai meri jaan - - Piano and Santoor
(O. P. Nayyar / Majrooh Sultanpuri / Jannissar Akhtar / CID)
4. Blues heaven - - Piano and Santoor
(Rahul Sharma)
5. Tere ghar ke saamne - - Piano solo
(Shankar Jaikishan / Harsrat Jaipuri / Asli Naqli)- It makes you realize the talent of Richard- at how seemingly effortlessly he plays this Hindi Film number as a solo, absolutely melodious.
6. Ecstasy - - Piano and Santoor
(Rahul Sharma)
7. Dekha ek Khwab - - Piano and Santoor
(Shiv Hari / Javed Akhtar / Silsila)
8. Norwegian wood - - Piano solo
(Lennon / McCartney)
9. Shangrila - - Piano and Santoor
(Rahul Sharma)
10. Celebration - - Santoor solo
(Rahul Sharma)
CREDITS
Music Arranged by Kishore Desai
Keyboards, Rhythm programming Prasad Sashte
Bass Guitar Dominic Fernandes
Guitar Jayanti Gosher
Flutes Rakesh Chaurasia
Dholak and Tablas Bhavani Shankar
Produced by Paul de Senneville, Olivier Toussaint and Rahul Sharma
ADDITIONAL INFOS
Genre: Easy Listening
Style: Contemporary Instrumental, Instrumental Pop, Neo-Classical
ID3 Tag: ID3v1.1 & ID3v2.3
Total Tracks: 10
Album Duration: 00:57:18
Audio Format: mp3
Bitrate: 160 Kbps
File Size: 65.6 Mo
Release Date: 28 January 2003
The Confluence:SANTOOR & PIANO by Richard Clayderman & Rahul Sharma 
