Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Ayaan Ali Bangash & Amaan Ali Bangash - Masterpieces for Sarod & Violin (2021) [24/48]

This double-album presents Amjad Ali Khan’s compositions for Sarod and Violin as a collection comprising the works previously premiered in three separate albums. The recordings included in this collection represent the culmination of a collaboration that came about through a serendipitous meeting of the artists in 2014 – Amjad Ali Khan, the Titan of the sarod, straddling two centuries, universally venerated as one of the greatest living Indian musicians in any genre; his sons, disciples and widely acclaimed sarod virtuosi in their own right, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash; and the distinguished American violinist Elmira Darvarova, herself a historical figure as the first ever (and so far only) woman-concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York. The first fruit of these artists’ unique joining of forces was their album, SOUL STRINGS, a bridge across which their respective traditions, coming from Indian Classical and Western Art Music genres, were generously shared, each with its expressive and technical integrity intact, rather than squeezed into that oft-used and abused notion of “fusion.” What that first album suggested subtly, about this daring, supercharged, yet profoundly respectful and even affectionate meeting of musical minds, was later brilliantly confirmed by their second album AMALGAM, which included the inimitable sound of the universally beloved and venerated elder statesman of Indian Classical Music today – Amjad Ali Khan. Drawing on the North and South Indian classical music idioms, AMALGAM not only featured new works but also explored new aesthetic and rhetorical terrain both in terms of the intimate level of phrase and note, as well as at the larger architectonic and structural aspects of the music. The artists offered their third album PEACE WORSHIPERS as a final volume of their trilogy, again with new compositions for Sarod and Violin by Amjad Ali Khan.

Tracklist:
Disc 1 (01:14:27)
1. Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova & Anubrata Chatterjee – Singing Angels (Based on Raga Charukeshi) (14:45)
2. Amaan Ali Bangash, Elmira Darvarova & Tanmoy Bose – Rivers of Bliss (Based on Raga Khammaj) (16:05)
3. Ayaan Ali Bangash, Elmira Darvarova & Anubrata Chatterjee – Midnight Tenderness (Based on Raga Tilak Kamod) (14:31)
4. Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash, Elmira Darvarova & Tanmoy Bose – Temple of Hope (Based on Raga Kirwani) (19:12)
5. Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova & Anubrata Chatterjee – Gentle Sunset (Based on Raga Marwa) (09:54)

Disc 2 (01:02:34)
1. Amaan Ali Bangash, Elmira Darvarova & Anubrata Chatterjee – By the Moon (Based on Raga Behag) (12:31)
2. Ayaan Ali Bangash, Elmira Darvarova & Tanmoy Bose – Romancing Earth (Based on Raga Pilu) (15:58)
3. Amaan Ali Bangash, Elmira Darvarova & Anubrata Chatterjee – The Brightest of Stars (Based on Raga Durga) (16:55)
4. Ayaan Ali Bangash, Elmira Darvarova & Anubrata Chatterjee – Love Avalanche (Based on Raga Mishra Bhairavi) (03:45)
5. Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova & Anubrata Chatterjee – Peaceful Morning (Based on Raga Bhairavi) (13:25)


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