RAJENDRA TEREDESAI - BANSURI / BAMBOO FLUTE-RAGA NAND - 01

RAGA NAND - An extremely beautiful evening raga that haunts you deeply with its eternal beauty! Also known by the name ANANDI KALYAN, it is quite a herculean and daunting task to master and play this raga on the flute, due to its utterly "vakra chalan" and constraining "pakad". Hence, you will rarely find this melody being played on the flute in a full fledged presentation.

In all my life, I haven't heard a single flute maestro play and improvise this raga in a full fledged concert presentation. I have often wondered, and rather sadly, as to why such a beautiful melody has been neglected so grossly by the past and living masters of the flute! Along with other captivating ragas like RAGA KEDAR, RAGA KAMOD, RAGA BHOOP KALYAN - and several other eternal melodies of the Kalyan "thaat", this raga, too, has also been sadly, relegated into near oblivion, perhaps inadvertently, by the classical flautist, today.

So, here is a brief clip of this raga played at one of my live concerts, during Shri Krishna Janmashtami Celebrations, held at ISKCON, which witnessed over 25,000 devotees thronging for Lord Shri Krishna's darshan, as I played by the sanctum sanctorum in the wee hours of the night.
In a large part of the presentation, I have attempted to bring out the sheer romanticism of the Radha - Krishna flirtatious interplay.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• BANSURI
• BAMBOO
• FLUTE
• HARIPRASAD
• CHAURASIA
• KRISHNA
• KRSNA
• NAND
• KALYAN
• SPIRITUAL
• HEALING
• YOGA
• RADHA
• REIKI
• RAGA
• ANANDI
• RAGHUNATH
• SETH
• TRANQUILITY
• ROMANCE

[erictjie]

when i go to india travelling , iwant to find a master like him and learn to play bansuri .

[stmc2]

It is wonderful indeed but it has nothing to do with Occident/Orient, such distinctions are dead. If you can understand and appreciate beauty, it is a universal conept.

Most Indians cannot understand this music, most English cannot understand Vaughn-Williams and most Japanese cannot understand the shakuhachi. the is depth and beauty to be found everywhere.

[LaProfondeurDuCiel]

Its a shame its only a clip, I would have loved to listen to the whole raag..

[stmc2]

An wonderful piece of bansuri there, thank you for posting.

[supergallas]

Absolutely outstanding!Our ocidental civilisation does not deserve this work of art,simply because we don't understand how deep and difficult this is.Thank you very much for your talent and i promise to hear this every day,as a medecin for my soul.Compliments from Portugal,Joao Galante.

[jksdhfapbowyetaoeut]

beautiful...