Wasifuddin Dagar (Dhrupad Vocal) at Darbar Festival 2009

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Wasifuddin Dagar (Dhrupad Vocal) with Mohan Shyam Sharma (Pakhwaj)

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Transport yourself to ancient India with deeply devotional dhrupad singing. Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar represents the 20th unbroken generation of dhrupad singers in the Dagar family. Traditionally his family has always performed dhrupad as a duet, but Wasifuddin successfully presents the dynamic of a duet in a solo performance.

Darbar Festival 2009

Described by one artist as the G20 summit of Indian music and by World Music magazine Songlines as surely Britains best festival of south Asian music, the Darbar Festival is says arts journalist, Jameela Siddiqui a place where everyone expects and gets the highest quality performances of Indian classical music.

Indian classical music is arguably one of the most complex and complete systems of music ever developed. What began as Vedic chants several thousand years ago developed into a sophisticated musical system by the 3rd century.

The music is based on a single melody line, which is played over a fixed drone and the performance is based melodically on particular ragas and rhythmically on talas. The music has been passed down orally. Improvisation predominates and written notation, when used, is skeletal.

This series from the Darbar Festival, presented by Lopa Kothari, features ten outstanding performances from artists from the two main strands of Indian classical music, the North Indian Hindustani and South Indian Carnatic traditions.

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[arcpiyush]

nimbarkadasa.

This is a very famous dhrupad composition. I have a record of this purcased from Raga records NY. sung by the great senior dagar brothers.

the poem is an excellant composition by raskhan....Manus ho to wahi raskhan ...baso brij gokul gam ke gwaran...jo pasu ho to kaha bas mero ....charo nit nand kee dhenu majharan...

[srirolo]

if you have more of this, please, please, post it!!!!

This is so rare! Thanks for this much!

[nimbarkadasa]

wonderful rendition of the pada composed by raskhan ji!

Shri Radha Madhav Ju Ki Jay!