Darbar TV Season 5
6 Episodes
Darbar Festival 2012 featuring Ustad Shujaat Khan (sitar), Mysore Brothers (violin), Manjiri Asnare (khayal), Pandit Rajendra Prasanna (flute), Prattyush Banerjee (sarod) and Chitraveena Ravikiren (veena)
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53:15Episode 1
S5 EP1 | Pandit Rajendra Prasanna
Episode 1
Pandit Prasanna renders two mellifluous morning Ragas that use both madhyams or the 4th note – Lalit and Shudh Sarang, where he unfolds the essence of both the melodies with ample grace and technique. He exposes the chromatic madhyams in Lalit with majestic control and tonal clarity. In Shudh Sa...
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53:05Episode 2
S5 EP2 | Ustad Shujaat Khan
Episode 2
Recorded at Darbar Festival 2012, on 30th September, at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London.
Musicians:
- Shujaat Khan (sitar)
- Swapan Chaudhuri (tabla)Raag Aliya Bilawal; Thaat: Bilawal; Samay: Morning
In the true cadence of the Etawah gharana, Khan plays a resounding Aliya Bilawal...
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53:17Episode 3
S5 EP3 | Manjiri Asnare-Kelkar
Episode 3
Asanare sings Raisa Kanada and Daguri, two ragas from the Jaipur-Atrauli repertoire with remarkable flair and fluency. She elaborates both ragas with a steady voice exposing their exquisite nuances in detail. She raises her game with command and control delivering taans (rapid notes) in four time...
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53:07Episode 4
S5 EP4 Mysore Brothers
Episode 4
Mysore Brothers perform Charukesi with refined technical virtuosity and jaunty phrases tapering to a pleading refrain with each phrase and weaving a multitude of patterns and emotions all the way. Don’t miss the tani avartanam (interactive percussion session) by veteran player Srimushnam Raja Ra...
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S5 EP5 Prattyush Banerjee | Raag Patdeep
Episode 5
Banerjee gives a splendid performance of Patdeep with a meandering and fluid alap, jor and jhala followed by two compositions. His sensitive treatment of Patdeep revealed with delicate phrasing develops to stately bolkaari-based passages based on lovely patterns of the raga’s phrases highlighted ...
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53:39Episode 6
S5 EP6 | Chitraveena Ravikiran
Episode 6
Raag Panthuvarali recorded at Darbar Festival 2012, on 29th September, at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London.
Musicians:
- Chitraveena Ravikiran (chitravina)
- Jyotsna Srikanth (violin)
- Yella Venkateswara Rao (mridangam)Thyagaraja Swamy composition in Raag Panthuvarali
Ravikiran...