- IMC presents ... Spring Ragas
(Bismallah Khan (Shenai), Ravi Shankar (Sitar),
Zakir Hussain (Tabla), Sultan Khan (Sarangi))
broadcasting: Monday, 27th March 2006 - 03:00 - 03:58 p.m.
Typical spring ragas are the Raag Bilaval and Raag Basant. Bilaval means pleasure. Basant has its origin in the
Sanscrit word vasant. In the Indian mythes its the word for spring. Vasan (gender: male) is the god of spring, which is in Indian behaviour the
fruitful time and period of joy. It exists the imagination to prosper flowers by playing the Raag Basant.
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Ustad Bismillah Khan
- Shaadi Ki Shehnaiyan (Vol 1)
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All India Radio Archival Release
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Pandit Ravi Shankar
- The Doyen of Hindustani Music
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Ustad Sultan Khan &
Ustad Zakir Husain
- ThoughtN Beats
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- IMC presents ... (early) morning ragas, part 1 of 2
Pt. HariPrasad
Chaurasiya ( Flute) with Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (Santor), Pt. Brij Bhushan Kabram (Guitar), Roopak Kulkarni (Flute), Shubhankar Benerjee and Sabir
Khan (Tabla), Nivedita Baneriee and Devopriya Chatterjee (Tanpura)
broadcasting: Monday, 24th April 2006 - 03:00 - 03:58 p.m.
The correct time of day and night for a performing ragas is one of the centre rules of the raga system. Early morning
ragas are performed between 03:00 and 06:00 a.m. ...
Most of the morning ragas bases on the scales of the thaat system "bairav" (Bhairavi (Ahir, Ramkali,
Bhupali, Jogiya Bhairav-Bahar ...). Bairav means the emotional expression within the raga music to effect stability of mind and seriousity.
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Pt. HariPrasad Chaurasiya (Flute)
& Pt. Shivkumar Sharma (Santor),
Pt. Brij Bhushan Kabra (Guitar)
- Call of the Valley
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Pt. Hariprasad Chourasia (Flute)
& Sabir Khan (Tabla)
- Flute Fantasia
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Pt. HariPrasad Chaurasiya (Flute)
& Shubhankar Benerjee (Tabla),
Roopak Kulkarni (Flute),
Nivedita Baneriee & Devopriya Chatterjee (Tanpura)
- Raga - Classical Instrumental Flute
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- IMC presents ... (late) morning ragas, part 2 of 2
Pandit Kartick Kumar (Sitar), Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan (Sarode), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (Sarode), Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (Santoor) ...
broadcasting: Monday, 22th May 2006 - 03:00 - 03:58 p.m.
In the thaat system and it's 10 basic scales the morninga ragas are represented strongest. Following the four thaats Bhairav (e.g. Raag Aheer Bhairav), Bhairavi (e.g. Raag Bilaskani Todi), Asaravari and Todi (e.g. Raag Mian-Ki Todi or Gurjari Todi)a tremendous number of morning ragas has been created.
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The correct time of day and night for a performing ragas is one of the centre rules of the raga system. (Late) morning
ragas are performed between 06:00 and 09:00 a.m. ...
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Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan (Sarode)
& Ustad Mohammed Jaari (Tabla)
- CD The Legendary Lineage
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(Sarode Maestro
Amjad Ali Khan)
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Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (Sarode)
& Sabir Khan (Tabla)
- CD morning visions
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Pt. Shivkumar Sharma (Santoor) & Anindo Chatterjee (Tabla), Naina Shah
(Tanpura)
- CD Thaat Todi ... the source of all ragas.
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Pt. Kartick Kumar (Sitar)
& Ustad Nizamuddin Khan (Tabla), Smt.
Lina Kartick (Tanpura)
- CD Raag 'n' Moods
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- IMC presents ... Special Feature
StudioTalk No.1: Music follows Behaviour!
broadcasting 1: Mon, 26th June 2006 (3:00-03:58 p.m. METZ) / ENG
broadcasting 2: Mon, 25th Sept. 2006 (3:00-03:58 p.m. METZ) / DE Version
STUDIOTALK is the new special feature of the promotion initiative IMC - India meets Classic, beside its monthly
broadcasting show "RAGA CDs of the month" (via radio + podcasting).
Within an interview in the Hamburg studio of IMC the Indian music maestro and mandolin player Shri Sugato Bhaduri, Kolkatta is being presented during a stop
over of Sugato Bhaduri's European Concert Tour in May 2006.
At the age of 32 S. Bhaduri belongs to the disciple of younger Indian music talents like Padmashri U. Shrinivas (born
in 1969), the first exponent and pioneer of Carnatic music on the mandoline, master of the 5-stringed Indian mandolin or the mandoline player
Snehasish Mozumder, who also lives in Kolkatta.
The mandolin is an instrument of the Western world, which arrests a growing attention for Indian Classical Music
during the last two decades, especially for the instrumental interpretation of ragas.
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U. Shrinivas (Mandolin)
- CD Dikshitar Masterpieces - Vol. 1
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S. Bhaduri (Mandolin)
& Abhijeet Banerjee
(Tabla)
- CD Journey with Twin Strings
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- IMC presents Midday Ragas (noon / early afternoon)
Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Mohan Vina), Amjad Ali Khan (Sarod), Hariprasad Chourasia (Flute/Bamboo)
broadcasting: Mon, 24th July (3:00-03:58 p.m. METZ)
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The Raag Sarang, a noon raga, is performed by Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt on an Indian Guitar,
which has been modificated by himself. The noon ragas within the Sarang family are clustered within the emotion system (rasas) as
adbhuta (= amazement).
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt as a Grammy Award Winner
belongs the extra ordinary music maestros of India. He was disciple of Ravi Shankar, the biggest musician in Indian Classical Music
(Hindustani Music) nowadays.
The sliding along the strings, the glissando, is typically for many different Indian instruments, e.g.
Sarod or Sitar. They all are constructions with vibrating resonance strings, the same as the slide guitar
designed by Mohan Bhatt, so called "Mohan Vina".
Mohan Bhatt has meet the guitar in a curious way. In 1967 a German student left
behind a Spanish guitar in the music school of his father Krishna Mohan Bhatt, a sitar maestro and one of the first three
pupils with Ravi Shankar in 1949/50. Bhatt refitted the guitar, did experiments with the structure of this instrument and some left
hand / right hand techniques. Least he modified it what we call today "Mohan Vina". It's a hybrid of the classical Spanish guitar and the sitar.
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Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Mohan Vina)
& Sandeep Das
(Tabla)
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- IMC presents Afternoon Ragas (early & late afternoon)
Ustad Bismillah Khan
& Bageshwari Qamar (Shenai), Ustad Bade Ghullam Ali Khan (Vocal), Pandit Rasjaj (Vocal) &
Ustad Rashid Khan (Vocal)
broadcasting: Mon, 28th August (3:00-03:58 p.m. METZ)
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An instrumental raga interpretation and it's basic material of notes, the shrutis (22 micro tones) target at
imitating the human voice. Within the techniqual possibilities of an Indian instrument (e.g. Sitar, Sarod, Santoor, Tabla ...) an Indian
music maestro looks for the same modulations, the same ornamentics
which are typical for the human voice. In Indian Classical Music the voice is being treated as an instrument in the same way. - It is the
fundamental instrument of Hindustani (North Indian) and Carnatic (South Indian) Music.
The vocal singing in India has progressed into different styles. Many forms of compositions
define accurate scales of notes and their ornaments. Beside the Alap, a free narration and the most difficult form of improvisation
till today exist vocal stiles, which can be dated back to the 13th century like Dhrupad, Dhamar, Tarana, Tappa, Thumri, Ghasel and Khyal.
In August 2006 the broadcasting show of IMC - India meets Classic has it's focus on the Khyal, performed
by some of Indias legendary vocalists. It is the bel canto of Indian Classical Music, a brillant and gloriously embroidered stile of singing, loaded up with difficult vowels.
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Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shenhai)
& Bageswari Qamar (Shenhai)
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- CD Classical Instrumental - Shehnai Jugalbandi
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Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (Vocal)
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- CD MARWA Thaat ...the source of all ragas
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Pandit Jasraj (Vocal)
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- CD Todi Thaat ... the source of all ragas
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Ustad Rashid Khan (Vocal)
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- CD PURVI Thaat ... the source of all ragas
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- IMC presents ... Special Feature From India to Europe ... FestivalReport
broadcasting: Sat, 30th September 2006 (part 1: 02:00-02:58 / part 2: 03:00-3:58 p.m. METZ)
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Guru Shishya Parampara (Kolkatta)
1989 ... Bhimsen Joshi (Khayal Vocalist)
Savai Gandharva Music Festival (Pune)
1992 ... H. Chourasia (Bamboo Flute) & Z. Hussein
(Tabla)
1999 ... Bhimsen Joshi (Khayal Vocalist)
Live @ Calcutta
1995 ... Nikhil Banerjee (Sitar)
Sangeete Gandharva Mahotsav 1995 (New Dehli)
Saptarishi - Constellation of Stars/Shobha Gurtu
(Vocalist)
Saptarishi - Constellation of Stars/Sh. Sharma (Santoor)
Saptak Music Festival (Ahmedabad / Gujarat)
2001 ... Kumar Bose (Tabla)
2002 ...
Wasifuddin Dagar (Vocalist - Dhrupad)
2004 ... Daya Shankar (Shehnai)
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- IMC presents Evening & Night Ragas on the Violin (part 1)
Pt.
Jasraj (Vocal), Kala Ramnath (Violin), Santosh K. Nahar (Violin), Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shehnai), Pt. V.G. Jog (Violin)
broadcasting: Mon, 23rd Oct (3:00-03:58 p.m. METZ) / part 2 ...
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The Indian self understanding of >late evening< following a long working day is "be funny" and
"joyfulness". The raga group of kafi, bageshri and sindura ragas represent this mood. The evening ragas like yaman, shree, marwa and
purvi can wake the emotions of prosperity and active live.
Evening and night ragas - part 1 with some listening examples of the Indian violine
... first time the violine was introduced in India at it's times of the British colonialisms at the end of the 18th early 19th century. This western instrument was picked up in the southern part of India enthusiastically and soon became an integrative part of the Carnatic (South Indian) music. The violin has the ability to reproduce every shadow nad nuance of the vocal music, however only some few representatives exist in the Northern part (Hindustani Music) less than in the Southern part of India. Especially the women established themselves as violin players like Kala Ramnath, Anupria or Sunita, daughter of the female violinist Minto Khaund or Sangeeta Shankar, Kala's cousine and Gingger the niece of L. Shankar (violinist) and daughter of L. Subramaniam (violinist), all representatives of the younger music generation...
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Pandit Jasraj (Vocal)
& Kala Ramanth (Violin)
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Santosh Kumar Nahar (Violin)
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Bismillah Khan (Shehnai)
& V.G. Jog (Violin)
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- CD Jugal Bandi B. Khan & V.G. Jog
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- IMC presents Evening & Night Ragas on the Violin & Sitar (part 2)
Kala Ramnath (Violin) & Purbayan Chatterjee (Sitar), Pt. Nikhil Bannerjee (Sitar), Dr. N. Rajam (Violin),
Sangeeta Shankar (Violin) & Zakir Hussain (Tabla), The Violin Brothers Ganesh & Kumaresh
broadcasting: Mon, 27th Nov (3:00-03:58 p.m. METZ) / part 1 ...
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Part 2 of „evening and night ragas is completing the last broadcasting show. In part 1 IMC – India meets Classic
presented the violin as a Western instrument, which found its way into the North Indian (Hindustani) and South Indian Music (Carnatic) … and
herefore some raga examples, e.g. the evening raga Yaman, the night ragas Rageshri and Durga and the raga Maru Behag, a mixture of an evening and
night raga.
In part 2 IMC – India meets Classic continues its path following the violin in India and its exceedengly importance
for Indian Classical Music …In comparision with the violine the sound picture of evening and night ragas on the sitar is being opposed. Together
with the violinist Kala Ramnath the sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee presents in a jugal bandi, the Indian form of a duet, the late evening raga
Bageshri and here about an interpretation of the rhythmic lively and light vocal style Tarana. An All India Radio release presents Purbayans guru
and great ideal Pandit Nikhil Bannerjee in a Sitar solo of the evening raga Desh.
The violin has been accepted in the northern part of India at all, but in a smooth way. As no other instrument from
the Western area the violin has established deeply in the South Indian Music style. Presentation forms and performances we know today had been
developed in the golden age of the South Indian Classic between 1750 and 1850 (e.g. compositions of Thygaraja, Dikshitar and Syama Sastri). The
violin was introduced into the South of India by Baluswamy Dikshitar in the early 19th century.
As representatives of the South Indian Music IMC – India meets Classic presents in part some violinists, e.g. Dr. N.
Rajam. She has the biggest impact onto the Indian Classical Mucis of all female violinists in India … and combines the North Indian style with the
South Indian form, too. On her CD RADIANT she presents the midnight raga Malkauns, which exists as Raga Hindolam in the Carnatic Music, too. Both
belong to the Bhairavi Thaat System, the ascendenting and falling scales existe each of 6 notes (swaras): Sa – ga – ma – da – ni – Sa.
Dr. N. Rajams daugther, Sangeeta Shankar, did many different music art works of both traditions (Hindustani, Carnatic)
together with her mother. IMC – India meets Classic presents Sangeeta as a solist together with the tabla virtuoso Ustad Zakir Hussain playing the
late night raga Bageshree.
The brothers and violin duo Ganesh & Kumaresh are two of the leading artists of the South Indian Music (Carnatic).
Ganesh and Kumaresh develope the violin play techniqually to a very expressive form … with their CD SUNDARAM (= beauty) they document the
South Indian form Ragam Tanam Pallavi by an individual composition of Ganesh, which is according to the evening raga Vasanta in South India.
Vasanta is one of the eldest Ragas in India, performed since more than 1000 years. Typically for the South Indian Vocal and Instrumental Music
Ganesh and Kumaresh are being accompanied instead of the Tabla by the Mridanga, the traditional drum of India and the Ghatam, a vessel like sound
body made of clay.
Reference: IMC – India meets Classic seperatelly will have
in one of its next special features a deeper focus onto the Indian violin and its figure for fusion, jazz and world music and presents some extra
ordinary violin players, e.g. Dr. Lakshminarayana Shankar, known as L. Shankar, his brother L. Subramaniam, titled in his home country as the „The
God of Indian Violin, „The Paganini of Indian Classical Music or his pupil (Shishya) S. Harikumar and others …
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Kala Ramanth (Violin)
& Purbayan Chatterjee
(Sitar)
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Dr. N. Rajam (Violin)
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Pt. Nikhil Bannerjee (Sitar)
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- CD Nikhil Bannerjee - Sitar (An All India Radio Release)
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Ganesh & Kumaresh
(South Indian Violin Duet)
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inspiring Indian Classical Music. |
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Sangeeta Shankar (Violin)
& Zakir Hussain (Tabla)
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- IMC presents Pentatonic Ragas (5 tone scale) ...
Pt. Nikhil Bannerjee (sitar), Ustad Bismillah Khan (shenai),Pt. HariPrasad Chourasia (flute/Bamboo),
Rajan & Sajan Mishra (vocal duo), The Ali Brothers (vocal duo): Ustad Salamat & Ustad Nazakat Ali Khan.
broadcasting: Mon, 25th Dec (3:00-03:58 p.m. METZ) ...
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The pentatonical ragas (scale of notes with five tones) are far common in India, equally in North Indian Classic
(Hindustani) as in South Indian Music (Carnatic). The pentatonical ragas create a multi layered spectrum, a musical taste which can be regognized
easily by the listeners. A magical power is being attributed to these ragas ...
The material of notes originally was used for religious
ceremonies and rites in many cultures all over the world... first it had consisted of only two tones, was developed to three tone scales and
progressed in the antique Greece to a scale of four tones (tetra chord system).
A more differentiated scaling form of the five tone music (so
called pentatonic) was formed particularly in East and South Asia, in front in China, Japan and India. Also in Blues and Afro American music the 5
tone scheme is in practice.
Contrary to our western music culture the Indian Classical Music and the raga-s aim at an atmospheric sound
picture by instrumental or vocal improvisation to connect with certain feelings, tendencyfully paintings conveying a special atmosphere and with
emotional expressions.
The 5 tone raga Malkauns for example reflects a
portrait of the dark, secret one and is helping to a menthal stabilization. The Raga Durga carries the names of the ambivalent,
semi terrible hindustic goddess Durga. The penthatonic raga Bhupali is awarded a healing, positive effect, which shifts the listener into an easy,
joyfully and relaxed tension.
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Ustad Salamat (1934-07/11/2001) and Ustad Nazakat Ali Khan (died in 1983) in the 60that a
Radio Pakistan broadcasting show ...
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Pandit Rajan (1951) & Sajan Mishra (1956), represantatives of the Benaras Vocal Gharana
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