Darbari (Alap, Jod), Hemant (Gat): Ustaad Nikhil Banerjee (Sitar), Ustaad Swapan Chaudhury (Tabla)

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[@saritavyas7079]

Last 30 years se daily 2 hours k liye pandit ji ka sitar sunti aayi hu meri mother bhi sitarist thee diniya me tajmahel dubara bn skta h pr aap jasa kalakar dubara nhi aapko shat 2 naman

[@narayanprasadsengupta4452]

This is the last programme of the artist's artist on 25 jan 1986. I was personally present on that night. Two days later he expired.

[@sandeepuniyal6164]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@sandeepuniyal6164]

How lucky you are sir .. Was He sick ?😢

[@narayanprasadsengupta4452]

@@sandeepuniyal6164 Yes, he was definitely sick. I still remember what he told the audience after he completed his recital. He played for one hour only. The audience wanted more. Nikhilbabu took the mike and told in Bengali, ' I am not keeping good health. I am playing in Dover Lane since long. That is why I have come here. Doctors have advised me not to play more. Kindly forgive me.' After this there was pin drop silence. H e slowly left the stage. Whenever I remember this incident I cannot hold my tears, even after so many years.

[@sandeepuniyal6164]

@@narayanprasadsengupta4452 Ohhh I cannot too Thank you so much for sharing I am grateful that you witnessed and I am hearing this from you. Something in his playing very pure , as if there is just music itself without player which tells that he was so dedicated and hence egoless. Music that gives you the fragrance of inner world.👏👏👏👏 Music that r

[@GraceComet3417]

“A GRACE of The Infinite☝🏻 - To Have Heard Such a Wondrous Master of Sound… This is Musical PRANA…”

[@AnustupBhattacharyyaSitar]

Last Concert of Doverlane in the year 1986

[@ashokbhattacharya391]

No word is sufficient to express the pathos-drenched feeling we are carried to by P)anditji.

[@kamleshtiwari1823]

One of the most soulful Alaaps of Darbari I have ever heard ! Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was , without doubt, one of the Greatest Sitar Maestros India has ever had ! !

[@ashokbhattacharya391]

A superb fusion of royalty and celestial mood carries us to a supramundane plane;

[@chandankumarsaha9175]

l like darbari and also Respect my beloved Nikhil Banerjee

[@indranilmallick4797]

Pandit Swapan Chaudhuriji on Tabla..... Thanx for sharing

[@AnustupBhattacharyyaSitar]

Darbari Alap Jod and Hemant

[@avijitdey3129]

ustad nehi pandit nikhil banerjee and pandit swapan chowdhury

[@kiyoto123]

darbari and hemanti

[@sitarbaba]

The gat is in Hem Bihag

[@AnustupBhattacharyyaSitar]

Hemant

[@jyopattechguru5020]

This is not Darbari played by Nikhil banerjee but basant

[@subhasisghatak5124]

Sir, you are wrong. This is definitely Darbari upto 32:59; thereafter it is Hemant.The mixture might have been done by the uploader himself.