VA - Afternoon Ragas 1992 ABEE

VA - Afternoon Ragas 1992 ABEE



The mid-day sun ushers in the Sarang group of ragas, which are all bright, vivid and lively. The pathos and gravity of the early morning ragas is quite dispelled by the bright sunshine and the earlier introspectiveness seems to give place to a more direct view of life and nature. The Sarangs are derived from different scales, denoting a wide variety of moods. This volume brings the exuberant qualities of afternoon with ragas like Shuddha Sarang, rendered by Amjad Ali Khan on the sarod, raga Sughrai, sung by Mallikarjun Mansur and raga Gaud Sarang, sung by Padma Talwalkar.

The afternoon shows a wide variety of moods and flavours and in the Sarangs, the most common characteristic is the strong shuddh rishabh. The rishabh forms an interval in combination with the shadaj suggesting control, stability and contentment. The ragas in this volume include raga Brindavani Sarang, rendered on flute by Hariprasad Chaurasia. One may imagine that this is how Krishna must have played for the gopis in Brindavan and this Sarang is named for just such an association. This is followed by raga Madhmad Sarang, sung by Pandit Jasraj and raga Dhani rendered by Shahid Parvez on the sitar.

Tracklist:

Disc 1
1 Raga Shuddh Sarang (Amjad Ali Khan) 30:37
2 Raga Sughrai (Tulsidas Borkar / Mallikarjun Mansur) 14:54
3 Raga Guad Sarang (Padma Talwalkar) 14:53

Disc 2

1 Raga Brindabani Sarang (Anindo Chatterjee / Hariprasad Chaurasia / Rupak Kulkarni) 16:07
2 Raga Madhmad Sarang (Appa Jalgaonkar / Pandit Jasraj / Kedar Pandit) 14:30
3 Raga Dhani (Vijay Ghate / Shahid Parvez) 14:09

Disc 3

1 Raga Bhimpalasi (Tulsidas Borkar / Balkrishnan Iyer / Mallikarjun Mansur) 30:17
2 Raga Patdeep (Anand Kunte / Shruti Sadolikar) 14:54
3 Raga Mand (Vijay Ghate / Shahid Parvez) 14:49

Disc 4

1 Raga Multani (Ustad Ramzan Khan / Rajan Mishra / Sajan Mishra) 29:58
2 Raga Madhuvanti (Anindo Chatterjee / Hariprasad Chaurasia / Rupak Kulkarni) 15:13
3 Raga Pilu 15:10

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