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Chandrashekhar Naringrekar - Sitar & Surbahar - Music beyond Words - Cassette...
We take now a little break from our Dhrupad Series - as this might get a little too heavy for a number of visitors of this blog - with some cassettes of instrumental music. We start here with a quite...
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Budhaditya Mukherjee - Sitar & Surbahar Recital - Cassette released in India...
Here a beautiful cassette by the well known Sitar master. In the past we posted already three LPs by him. See here. flacmp3Cassettes coming from India have often certain shortcomings. Sometimes it is...
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Sharmistha Sen - Sitar - Cassette released in India in 1993
Sharmistha Sen learned from Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan of the Senia Gharana and his student Debu Chauduri. As far as I know there are only two CDs by her, one released in the US and one in India.flacmp3
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Debu Chaudhuri - The Lyricism in Sitar - Cassette released in India in 1987
Here a beautiful cassette by Debu Chaudhuri, a disciple of the great Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan of Senia Gharana. These masters of the Senia Gharana play an old style rarely heard today.In the past we had...
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Tejendra Narayan Majumdar - Sarod Recital - Cassette released in India in 1991
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar is for sure the most outstanding Sarod player of his generation. I saw him in the 1990s and the early 2000s quite a number of times in concert in Germany, Belgium and Holland...
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Mushtaq Ali Khan (1911-1989) - Sitar Recital - Recording (1964) from the...
Mushtaq Ali Khan was an outstanding and highly regarded sitar player in mid 20th century, who represented an old style untouched by all the innovations of the new generation of instrumentalists coming...
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Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929-1990) - Been Recital - Recording (1981) from the...
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar was a legendary master of the Rudra Veena (Been). He was the only member of the Dagar family who performed an instrumental version of Dhrupad. These recordings were also released...
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Rahimuddin Khan Dagar (1901-1976) - Raga Rageshri-Kanhara - Recording (1960)...
We continue our Dhrupad series with an outstanding recording by Ustad Rahimuddin Khan Dagar. Our blogger friend Bolingo had posted in 2011 the LP which was released the same year, but unfortunately...
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Dear music lovers, recently it happened several times that Dropbox downloads from my blog were not available, due to the fact that the download volume exceeded the limit of 200 GB per day. If this...
View ArticleWe will try ADrive now again
As there seems to exist no solution for the Dropbox problems we decided after some reflection to go back to ADrive. ADrive seems to have almost no limitations to downloads. It allows up to 1.000...
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The Younger Dagar Brothers: Nasir Zahiruddin Dagar (1933-1994) & Nasir...
Here we present a quite rare LP by the Junior Dagar Brothers, their very first LP. I recently was able to obtain a copy of this LP, which has certain shortcomings. First the cover had the correct back...
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Ustad Rahimuddin Dagar - Raga Shudh Sarang & Ustad Sayeeduddin Dagar -...
Yesterday Raagam, the internet radio of All India Radio, which broadcasts 24 hours a day 7 days a week classical Indian music, had a Dhrupad program with Ustads Rahimuddin Dagar and Sayeeduddin Dagar....
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Ram Chatur Mallick (1902-1990) - Chant Dhrupad & Dhamar - LP published in...
Up to now we presented in our Dhrupad Series only members of the Dagar family. Now we turn to some other Dhrupad traditions, first to the one from Darbhanga.I still remember very vividly how happy and...
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Ram Chatur Mallick - All India Radio recordings (1983) published as a...
These recordings exist also on LP: PMLP 3070 (1990). The LP is extremely rare like most of the AIR releases published in 1990 and 1991 by The Gramophone Company of India. As the publication year was...
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Siyaram Tiwari (1919-1998) - Recording (1979) from the archives of All India...
Here we present a beautiful recording by Siyaram Tiwari, the legendary singer of the Darbhanga Gharana. The recording is from 1979 and contains Ragas Todi and Mian Malhar. I recorded it in november...
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Nicht einmal Gott steht höher als der Klang - Dhrupad Festival in Vrindaban...
Abhay Narayan Mallik, accompanied by Ramkumar & Premkumar Mallik during their concert on 26th of march 1982 in VrindabanHere we present a broadcast by Peter Pannke with recordings by Dhrupad...
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Abhay Narayan Mallick - Dhrupad at its Best - Cassette published in India in...
Abhay Narayan Mallik, born 1937, is today the leading artist of the Darbhanga Dhrupad Gharana. He is the master disciple and successor of Ram Chatur Mallik.We posted in 2016 another cassette by him. On...
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Abhay Narayan Mallick - AIR programs broadcast recently on Raagam
Here we present three beautiful broadcasts from All India Radio, recently recorded from Raagam, the internet radio of AIR, which broadcasts classical Indian music 24 hours a day 7 days a week.1. Abhay...
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Darbhanga - Pandit Abhay Narayan Mallik - Dhrupad - Live in Concert
We present here some more beautiful recordings by Pandit Abhay Narayan Mallik. This CD probably was never published. I even don't know if this label ever existed. It seems that an Indian collector made...
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Hindustani Vocal Music - Darbhanga Dhrupad - Pt. Seyaram Tiwari & Pt. Bidur...
Here we post a private CD with two great singers of the Darbhanga Gharana. By Siyaram Tiwari we had posted already a couple of recordings. See here. By Bidur (Vidur) Mallik we had up to now only one...
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