BAITHAK 40th session - RECALLING MUSIC GREATS OF YESTERYEARS with Shri Suresh Chandvankar

Baithak
40th session
RECALLING MUSIC GREATS OF YESTERYEARS - Pt. Arvind Parikh in dialogue with Shri Suresh Chandvankar

[@manishacharya4936]

Thank you for sharing the wonderful gems from the musical treasure trove!

[@nirmalyamukhopadhyay1769]

What an enlightening video. Heartfelt thanks to Pt. Parikh for organising it.

[@anjanawadivkar2468]

Lots of thanks to you Sir for sharing this video. 🙏🙏

[@akhiljoban]

If these recordings are ever shared to the younger generation, as Suresh ji mentioned at one point, please do keep me updated! I would love to have access to them.

[@RohanRajadhyaksha]

Same request. Please share the link in case these vintage recordings are made available online. They have immense archival value.

[@jigggro]

Same request. Please please.

[@rsamurti]

Very nice presentation of precious gems!

[@vijaypandya1329]

Fantastic collection Sureshji.

[@minatighosh8331]

Kindly check Rajan Parrikar's website as well as Patrick Moutal's. apart from the back issues of Record news, Rajeev Parked has a nice page of Old Hindustani discographies.

[@minatighosh8331]

Rajeev Patke (💀to spell check) discography of Hindusthani music from the 78 rpm era.

[@TheSuresh1952]

@@minatighosh8331 Yes - I am aware of and also assisting in a small way in the work of both the websites

[@minatighosh8331]

@@TheSuresh1952 Happy dusshera and seasons greetings. I hope you are keeping well. Best wishes, Sanjay

[@kanwaljitsingh8391]

Kudos to your efforts Arvind ji

[@freeflutistjagannathkoleyj9416]

My best honour before all

[@dhavalflute]

1st to watch :) thanks

[@kunalghosh448]

"Phagwa brij dekhan ko" was recorded by "Bhu Gandharwa" Ustad Rehamat Khan long before Ustad Abdul Karim Kham and Pandit Vishwadev Chatterjee. The same Todi bandish was also recorded earlier by Zohra Bai Agrewali; if I can recall correctly, it was sung as Darbari Todi.

[@kunalghosh448]

Sorry. My memory betrayed me. Although Ustad Rehamat Khan recorded the same Malkauns bandish later recorded by Abdul Karim Kan and Vishmadev Chatterjee, but not this Paraj Basant. But my comment on Todi stands.

[@TheSuresh1952]

All the recordings mentioned by Kunal Ghosh were recorded much later - Zohrabai in 1910-11, Pandit Vishwadev Chatterjee after 1925 and Rehamat khan in 1919-21. One that I played is recorded in 1905 in Bombay on Ramagraph Disc Label. Hence the query - who taught these ragas to Miss Chanda Karvarkarin? She has over 50 songs on this label recorded during 1905-06

[@kunalghosh448]

@@TheSuresh1952 Thanks for correcting me. I'm not a professional in this field and also totally depended on my memory. My comments on Malkauns relate to the recording of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan of the mid thirties and not to the early last century ones, although I am not unaware of them; Pandit Vishmadev Chatterjee also recorded this song most likely in the thirties. To the best of our knowledge, sound recordings in the early days were mostly done in Calcutta and we have heard highly amusing stories about how the recordings were done in those days or even later. In any case, some brainstorming has been done. Thanks again for the same. PS : The sarangiya has great similarity with Ustad Bundu Khan, may enquire about him in the Suiwallah galli of the old walled city of Delhi.

[@kunalghosh448]

@@TheSuresh1952 Very minor point. That particular Todi by Zohra Bai was marketed in 1909, as per record available with me. Of course, I may be wrong.

[@TheSuresh1952]

@@kunalghosh448 please see her discography here - pages 33-42 at dsal.uchicago.edu/books/trn/trn.php?volume=2001&pages=131#page/1/mode/1up and other related articles in the same issue. She was the unlucky gramophone singer who did not live to listen to her records when they were issued in Indian market. She was recorded from 1908-11 and died in 1913. Her discs were processed in Germany and came to Indian market after she passed away

[@amitanaudiophile]

Missing audiophile listening