This 2CD/1DVD package captures ‘Ravi Shankar's Farewell Indian Concert’ at the Bengaluru Palace Grounds in Bangalore, the capital city of the Indian state of Karnataka. That April Shankar was going to turn 92. At that age mortality and legacy must prey hard on one's mind. As this superlative performance shows, the now-white bearded sitarist was playing for keeps. In his last years of public performing, he sometimes appeared frail. Often concerts were staged in such ways as to assist his stamina and physical strength. In the latter case, for example, by playing a physically lighter instrument. He also allowed his daughter Anoushka to develop a stronger stage role and more distinctive voice. The visual element of Live In Bangalore demonstrates that more than beautifully. It also shows off an advanced appreciation of the western concept of copyright. Though the three ragas here – ‘Yaman Kalyan’, ‘Tilak Shyam’ (“a raga that I composed many, many years ago”) and ‘Khamaj’ were well established features on the Lazy Susan of his core repertoire, each neatly (for an improvised form) carries a ‘Bangalore…’ prefix. Here he is saying farewell to his homeland and playing for posterity with imagination, an inventiveness and an improvisational wit, the like of which one seldom sees. Thankfully it was preserved. Live In Bangalore is something extraordinary. Ravi Shankar died in December 2012.