Budhaditya Mukherjee - Soulful Melodies on Sitar Strings - Cassette released in India in 1989

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Ramesh Prem - Vichitra Veena - AIR recordings

Here we present two beautiful recordings from the Archives of all India Radio. We recorded them in november 2017 from Raagam, the internet radio channel of AIR, which broadcasts 24 hours 7 days a week classical Indian music from the archives of AIR.

In 2013 we posted a private CD by Ramesh Prem, containing an EP and another AIR program by the artist.

A friend made these covers for these recordings. Many thanks to him.

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Ahmed Raza Khan - Vichitra Veena - Recordings from All India Radio

We pointed out this great master of the Vichitra Veena in a post in 2013, without sharing any music by him, just referring to his excellent CD published in Germany. See here.
Recently we received some AIR recordings from our friend KF, which we share here. Many thanks to him for his generosity.

On the artist see:

http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/citation_popup.php?id=127&at=1

Broadcast by AIR Delhi, Nov. 1980: 

1. Raga Basant Mukhari: Alap,Gat Vilambit Tintal & Drut Tintal - Tabla: Nanak Chand 

2. Raga Mishra Pilu - Tabla: Nanak Chand 

3. Raga Ahir Todi: Gat Vilambit Tintal & Drut Tintal - Tabla: Faiyaz Khan

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from the cover of an EP published by Gramophone Company of India in 1975

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 and, if I remember right, also in Paris. He was always excellent, musically full of surprises and an incomparable freshness.

There exist quite a number of CDs by him, released in the US, in UK and in Germany. In India he is reguarly performing on All India Radio, but there are hardly any cassette or CD releases there.

This tape had at the beginning of side A heavy disturbences. After rewinding the tape a couple of times the tape is now ok, but the sound suffered a little bit, compared to side B.

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Radhika Mohan Maitra (1917-1981) - Sarode & Mohan Veena - Cassette published in India

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Many thanks to Danny for sharing this cassette.

Here a very detailed article about the great artist in 5 parts:

http://debatesangeet.blogspot.de/2008/05/radhika-mohan-maitra-i.html

See also this DVD about instruments from Radhika Mohan Maitra's collection of instruments:
https://katalogshop-smb.museumsportal.org/startseite/sarodiyo-bin.html

"Das Spektrum der vorgestellten Instrumente neben der populären Sarod ist gleichermaßen erstaunlich und faszinierend. Die Sursringar verbindet das bundlose Metallgriffbrett der Sarod mit dem horizontal geschnittenen Kürbisresonator, der Holzdecke und der flachen Brücke der Surbahar. Sie kommt ohne Resonanzsaiten aus und war, ähnlich wie die Surbahar, von Mitte des 19. bis Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts beliebt für die Interpretation von Alap im Dhrupad-Stil. Die Sur Rabab gleicht baulich weitgehend der Sursringar, hat aber statt der Holzdecke eine Ziegenhautbespannung und einen schmalen Steg wie die Sarod. Die Mohan Vina wiederum gleicht einer Sarod, hat aber statt der Ziegenhautbespannung eine Holzdecke mit breiter Brücke. Sie ist eine Erfindung von Radhika Mohan Maitra aus den 1940er Jahren und nicht zu verwechseln mit der von Vishwa Mohan Bhatt im letzten Viertel des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelten modernen Mohan Vina, einer modifizierten Slide-Gitarre - mehr dazu hier. Letztes der fünf Instrumente ist die Dhrupadiya Rabab, neben der afghanischen Rabab eines der Vorläuferinstrumente der modernen Sarod. Sie hat ein bundloses Holzgriffbrett, Darmsaiten und eine Hautbespannung und war im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert neben der Rudra Vina das verbreitetste Melodieinstrument der Dhrupad-Musik."

from:  http://www.india-instruments.de/newsletter-archiv/566-rundbrief-maerz-april-2014.html

After been neglected for a long time by record labels there are now at least six CDs on the market by this great artist. They can be obtained from: info@raga-maqam-dastgah.com

Budhaditya Mukherjee (Sitar) - Instrumental Music of India - LP published in 1982 in the Soviet Union.

A beautiful LP by Budhaditya Mukherjee recorded 1979 in the Soviet Union

and published there as an LP in 1982.

Side 1:

Raga Puria Kalyan

Side 2:

1. Raga Basant Mukhari

2. Tabla Solo in Tintal

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