Kronos Quartet goes to Bollywood
In choosing songs for the group's latest album, all of them composed by Bhonsle's late husband, RD Burman, Harrington said he selected those that appealed to his ear as a musician, with no understanding of their Hindi and Bengali lyrics.
It wasn't until days before Kronos began recording last summer that Harrington realised the group had put together a collection of plaintive love songs, many of them lesser-known examples of Burman's songcraft.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "I was reacting to the music totally as a listener and as a musician," the violinist told Reuters in an interview. The song selection surprised Bhonsle, too, but she felt they had rendered a strong sense of Burman as a composer, he said.
The result was You've Stolen My Heart: Songs from R.D. Burman's Bollywood, to be released on August 23 by the New York-based independent label Nonesuch Records.
Source: Reuters