probably one of the greatest recordings of one of the greatest musicians ever. if I only heard one piece of music in my life and it was this Chandranandan played by Khansahib, i would consider myself incredibly fortunate.
How true! I bought all the records by him that I could get hold of in the 1960s and 70s. And I was fortunate to listen to him in a concert. Why on Earth is he not known all over the world?
Rich Osborn Ali Akbar definitely has that endearing quality to his music. But even his life, his singular dedication to cause of music is so very exemplary. if nothing else, that is so inspirational.
Same with me sir, and l have probably recorded this raga at diff.places.and that too 8 to 10 times.But may few have survived still still some might have survived.But I can't upload as all are still in cassette.Sorry.Will try if I can .
Even Mr.Rich it saved my life.Those years Ustadji was playing this one many places.I was mentally physically.disturbed ,even CNS breakdown.But oh my God I this along with few other gems really took me out of the blackhole.Diivine.Divinity in real action.Sorry to be so emotional.Let the music divine lead us towards divinity.
Khan Saheb is a musician par excellence.Beyond any comparison.His sarod sings, whispers at times, talks the very next moment, takes one to another world...Sheer magic.
It is an unique creation of Ustad Aliakbar khansaheb, such a sweet composition can be handled by genious maestro like him, Wonderful accompaniment by Mahapurush ji.
THANKS FOR TELLING US THE TABLA IS BY MAHAPURISH MISHRA .. .. .... I WAS THINKING SHANKAR GHOSH .. . . CHANDRANANDAN WAS COMPOSED ON A. FULL MOON NIGHT .. .... THE NAME WAS GIVEN TO THIS RAGA AFTER IT WAS COMPOSED ON HMV 'S PRODUCER' S REQUEST TO KHAN SAHIB TO PLAY "SOMETHING NEVER HEARD OF" .... ... AND IT WAS CREATED .. ... INCIDENTALLY A FULLLLLLL MOON NIGHT .. .... HENCE NAMED CHANDRANANDAN LITERALLY MEANING "GIFT OF MOON" 🌕 🎁
I can only tell that I'm spellbound by the wonderful melody of this raga. It will be unjust if I don't acknowledged at the same time the beautiful tabla accompaniment by Prof. Swapan Chowdhury sahib. So many times I have listened and enjoyed Chandranandan but it seems to be a never ending thirst for this raga. Feel like listen to this over and over again...
I feel peace from this music. It is obviously true that Ustad Ali Akbar Khan is not only a great sarod maestro but also a great musician of all musicians.
One of the best recordings of Khansahib! Thank you for uploading this. Would you mind uploading all the tracks of the Signature Series Vol 1 and 2, if you have them?
There aren't many performing this raga which is so tremendously beautiful. It is important to keep it alive and sustained. One of Khansahib's wonderful disciples Rajeev Taranath has many recordings of this including one on Navras Records with Anindo Chatterjee.
I wonder how is it possible to hear any other sarod players. Ustadji has deified sarod or perhaps sarod has deified Ustad-ji. Sarod doesn't sound, so pure, so heavenly and blissful from anybody else. It will take centuries to even realize just how unimaginably beautiful Swarasamrat's music is, let alone play it. Chandranandan is the pinnacle of our 5000 years old tradition of Indian classical music.
While Ali Akbar Khan was undoubtly a maestro, no question about it. Hazra you seem like a novice in music when you dismiss other great sarodists who have their own strong points. There is no such a thing as the "greatest" or " best" in music as there are no quantifible ways to measure such. This is not sports. So instead of comparing just enjoy the music of your favorite sarod player
It's true that other great sarod players have their own strong points ! But even other great sarod players have admitted the fact that Ustad Ali Akbar khan sahab was undoubtedly the musician's musician ! He and Vilayat khan sahab were extraordinarily different from others !!!
@@ami9433480965 Every musician is different from one another! Vilayat khan was great in his own way just the way Nikhil Banerjee, Balram Pathak, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, and Ravi Shankar were great in their own way! Just the way Bahadur Khan, Vasant Rai, Radhubabu and Ali Akbar Khan are equally great. All of these musicians had different goals and looked at the music in a different way. To say one is "better then the other" is inane and immature
I agree, Uday. And believe that I *must* have had a recording of it (which must have been on the Connoisseur Society label) which did, indeed, have an Alap. But, where is it on uTube?
Record label asked play anything random, not any raga just anything. And babaji played this, played on full moon he later named it Chandranandan, "chanda" meaning moon 🌙
That's the HMV/RPG recording you're talking about.But this is a different recording of the same Raag.If you listen this tabla accompaniment minutely you'd find that its a pure Benaras Baj played by Pt. Mahapurush Mishra (disciple of great Pt.Anokhelal Mishra) .OTOH, Shashiji played quite differently.
In the early 80s a Hindu colleague of mine told me this. He knew that I love Ravi Shankar and sitar music. He said it was found in a temple near a big city on the Ganges where they have a big party once every 12 years. Showed me pictures of this temple as well, and told me about other wonderous things like the vimanas and ancient technology. We know that Sanskrit is the oldest language, about 10,000 years old, which would be after the global cataclysms that happened about 11,500 years ago with the melting of the ice caps, and the end of the ice age, caused by global asteroid impacts. The fact that Hindu culture, Sumerian culture, and Egyptian culture all popped up seemingly out of nowhere already fully evolved shows that these cultures were "rebooted" from much earlier ones from a remnant that survived the cataclysmic floods. So when my Hindu friend told me of this, way back then I completely believed it because he himself had a doctorate in biology and he knew people in academia who had researched this particular temple (I don't remember the name of the temple or the city, it was so long ago that he told me this and I have since lost contact with him after having moved out of the USA in 1991). He was from Gujarat by the way, and I considered him to be of high intelligence.
