Grateful thanks for this upload. Anyone who has ever picked up this instrument to play a single note will straightaway recognise the degree of difficulty in Panditji's playing. The word legend is often overstated, and should be reserved for people like Panditji. Sadly, I never heard him live, only realised his greatness posthumously. What a humble person, but what towering notes!
the work of chikari during alaap should b learned from him.. the overuse of chikari by some players during alap these days is many a times irritating....
Absolutely. One only hears the chikari and not the Sur. The purity of Sur that Nikhil Banerjee used to produce was unmatched. Plus his vision of a raag, which enabled him to create such a superb landscape. Here lies Nikhil Banerjee (a Caeser among sitar players); whence comes another ?
Look we can't eke out a a piece of music so to fill the gap between the two notes which is also a music, a musician gives a chikari. It sounds good if done properly. Now reflect.
@@DebeshDey322 In Nikhil Banerjee's music: between the two notes is silence and because of the way the note before and after is conceived and played that silence-between-two-notes becomes invested with musicality. Some of Beethoven's late compositions had this quality. Chikari in alap is for lesser mortals.
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