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Almost 40 years after it was written, the Hovhaness concerto Shambala, for
violin, sitar and
orchestra, originally composed for Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar, receives its
world-
premiere broadcast on January 30th 2008, during the 9am hour (US Eastern Time)
on the
WPRB radio show Classical Discoveries.
Shambala (1969) has never been performed at any concert, so this is its first
public airing of
any kind. The broadcast marks the February 14th release of the OgreOgress
DualDisc
comprising three Hovhaness works, each featuring violinist/violist Christina
Fong. Both
Shambala and Janabar (1950) appear in world-premiere recordings, whilst the
concerto Talin
(1951) was last recorded in its original viola & strings format as far back as
1957.
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