Begum Parveen Sultana, Awesome Bhajan

Vocals -- Begum Parveen Sultana
Tabla -- Mukundraj Deo
Harmonium - Shrinivas Acharaya

CD1
Raga Maru Behag
1. Alap
2. Bada Khayal




3. Chotta Khayal




CD2
1. Tarana in Raga Hansadhwani
2. Meera Bhajan - Mai to Lino Govind Mol
3. Bhajan -- Sai Ram Sai Ram
4. Bhairavi -- Dayani Bhairavi




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Bhajans are deeply rooted in the Indian tradition. Bhajan is a song form using soulful language expressing surrender to God. Many bhajans are rooted in the hymns found in the Sama Veda, the third Veda in the Hindu scriptures. Some of India's most loved bhajans were composed by the poetess Meera (track 2). Born in the sixteenth century at a time of political and social unrest in India, Meera having lost her father, husband and father-in-law sought peace and dedicated her life to Lord Krishna. She composed hundreds of poems in a simple and unpretentious language capturing the beauty of her intense and deep love to God. Bhajans are also often loosely based on the melodic phrases of Ragas; in this case Sai Ram Sai Ram (track 3) carries a strong sense of Ragas Kirvani and Shivranjani. The recital aptly concludes with Bhairavi, an auspicious and deeply devotional raga traditionally sung to conclude the concert performance.

Notes: John Ball

John Ball is a practicing musician and musicologist based at the University of Sheffield, UK

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• Parveen
• Sultana
• Indian
• classical
• music
• vocal
• thumri
• khayal
• zakir
• anindo

[Psyche1954]

Muslims learnt the art of singing and music and did unite in the divine mission of bringing music to the masses1 ravishankar's guru Alludddin khan sahib who was known as 'maihar ke baba'tutored and prduced geniuses like ali akbar khan ,annapurna devi( his daughter)and many other luminaries he celebrated Janmashtami and worshiped krishna all his life and also was a devout Muslim! Of course he would have been beheaded in the past by the Granddaddy of all taliban Mr Aurangzeb!

[ayazmohsin]

wa wa... i am from pakistan and want to say that she is awesome singer i don,t know what she is singing but i can say bohat sur ma ga rae.....

[RR777Music]

May GOD BLESS u Begam Parveen sultana ji

WAH WAH WAH Kya sur lagte hai Sakshat Saraswati maa has blessed u

[askpati]

Technical and soulful music!

[Suryasmitha]

Beautiful! Divine! Music is universal. Not restricted by any geographical or religion-based borders. That is what makes it so unique!

[cmcjss]

wah wah wah. god bless you for such a piece... truely the 'hindustani Soprano'

[JaydeepRHUL]

@Psyche1954 Dunno y religion came here as comment but do u know Baba Alauddin Khan's ancestors were actually Hindu, they took Islam to hide the identity as they were dacoits in Tripura. Parveen ji's Guru and husband Ustaad Dilshad Khan was also a Hindu. So religion doesn't matter here. Her early guru was chinmay lahiri who's Hindu again. Musicians say they don't have any religions. Music is their religion.

[The1Shann]

I've just started to listen to this kind of music, and I'm spellbound by her voice! What an incredible range, both in pitch and volume....so beautiful!!!!

[mangaltripathi03]

Begum Sahiba, Hats off to you - what a rendition of wonderful Devi Bhajan....I see a glimpse of Devi in you on the earth.......Long live.......

[ghareksapna]

amazing ! i cant get enough of hearing this recital by her .

[latakulkarni01]

just wonderful....no..words....!!!!­

[angelforfreedom]

I love this song to Maa Bhavani. :)