Hamsadhwani (Drut Tin Taal): Nikhil Banerjee (Sitar)

Album: Ashruta Nikhil, Released: 09 September 2013, ℗ 2013 Girona Entertainment Technology Pvt. Ltd.
Photo: Painting by Jamini Roy.
(No copyright infringement intended.)

[@arpanlaha8433]

Aha!! Words cannot explain it ... Everyone knows Pt. Nikhil Banerjee is none but god... But what a sangat by Pt. Shyamal !! Enchanting !! Brahma and Bishnu together

[@jvsuryanarayana]

There is some thing so special about his sitar playing

[@Jodugulas1]

This melts your heart and raises your spirits. According to me no sitar playing could be better than this.

[@matstertacniqalyt2437]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Waah ji Waah sunder Vaadan. Pranaam

[@krmilind]

It's a pure bliss for the ears. Luck to be born in this era and listen such music

[@prabuddhasinha1108]

Undoubtedly You are correct

[@donsagucio8619]

you are a first G bless your time

[@prasannasohale7537]

i had already listen for 100 times ...but want to listen again ...and again ...what a melody ....Raj Hans...in music ocean ...

[@swapnashome101]

Pandit Nikhil Banerjee is unparrelal. I love this Rag very much.--Sisir Shome, Singur, Hoogly,West Bengal

[@joshorange3087]

Listening this at Mexico. Great sounds.

[@mousiki4706]

Bliss. Thanks Bro!

[@buttgoomagoo6408]

Mexico is a shithole

[@joshorange3087]

@@buttgoomagoo6408 not is, MExico is beauty, the shithole is into you mind and into you heart.

[@joydevghosh8017]

Tabla accompaniment is equally blissful.

[@Trisankubanerjee]

Unlimited thanks for sharing this one. Nikhil Banerjee is God Indeed.

[@TheRobertodarapallo]

There is no god, believe me brother; „God“ is man made, just because kids, sons, daughters miss daddy who‘ s never or seldom @ home. Imagine, if you can, human males that, tired to moan and groan and sitting gloomy together, invent a kind of superhero, a superman, the Almighty one, who does everything and is there everytime. He doesn’ t answer, but everyone can speak to him. What god wants god gets, oft one thing and its contrary. But god’ s ways are inscrutable. Smart priests👏🏻The main sects, so called religions (ok, who knows the meaning of the word RELIGION?), make all time propaganda, and some humans bite the bait, with the excuse to follow the laws. The trick is be gentle, try not to look too smart, mingle, don’ t raise voice or head. The formula for dummies is: please believe=obey, and this is just the beginning. All religions want followers to be like sheep. And when a mind is over the average, thinks outside the box, they try to make the person to become a priest or a nun; it almost happened to me, not the right place to dig deeper. That brings me back to the fact that in all religions, maybe not in all, but let‘ s say in 95% of each one women, the masters of reality, are second to the migty male priests. Strange, but true🍀✌🏻☮️🇮🇹🇨🇭😇👋🏼

[@sisirkumarshome6070]

Pt Nikhil Banerjee -- Superb, Excellent. I heard it more than hundred times.

[@prasenjitsarcar8415]

does anyone have the aalap and jor for this piece? for someone unlettered and untrained in music, the soul yearns for more

[@arijitchatterjee4279]

what a piece! Pandit Nikhil Banerjee can make me believe in God.

[@prasenjitsarcar8415]

word perfect, my friend....

[@tapanbanerjee5787]

Pandit Nikhil Banerjee in Raag Hansadhwani is simply a gem. Salute to the tabla recital as well.

[@ishavasya]

I love this raga in particular and the way Pt. Nikhil Banerjee has played it, its beauty is enhanced multiple times. and I personally think very few(if at all) can match this speed, accuracy and depth.

[@namishsingh5671]

Nikhil Gaur

[@juspreetsandhu8446]

In our generation, nobody can. These were the days of Ustad Vilayat Khan and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, and they are (sadly) gone.

[@melvinraji296]

Only Pandit Nikhil Banerjee can bring tears to the eyes in one of the most Joyful pieces, Raag Hansadhwani....

[@Kathaivanam]

amazing sitar. the composition played and improvised here is 'vAthApi ganapathim bhajeham' in Hamsadwani by Muthuswamy Dishithar in Adi thalam

[@prafuljoshi8056]

The bandish he has played is Lagi Lagan sakhi Pati Sang and not Vatapi.As noth are based on Hansdhwani the misunderstanding can take place.

[@vaijayantihardas1609]

Beyond imagination. No words. Just lost in music.

[@vivsea65]

no one like you. raag melts in ears and soaks heart with its melody and sublimeness

[@sudesnabera6901]

Heavenly would be an understatement.

[@desakshidesakshi7800]

Nikhil da's playing is like the soothing cool breeze to the ears and mind🌺🌺🌺🌺🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@tarunkumarchaudhuri2613]

A perfect music in this lock down period.

[@nourham6228]

WAW just amazing great music and great civilisation

[@tapanhore2147]

Pt. Nikhil Bamerjee , always an extraordinary in the Hindusthani classical instrumental music , playing Sitar ( chitra-veena ) . Thanks

[@rajshreebagewadi5672]

Chitra veena is different

[@scooter12e]

Laying in bed with the flu and this is healing me

[@mousiki4706]

Wonderful! Thanks, YT and Ayan.

[@rajibbhattacharya9026]

amazing. melts heart actually

[@sumitaray3201]

Always, a heavenly experience.

[@AmanExplorerBoy]

Kya baat hai maza aa gaya

[@ratanmonijana8091]

Such manifestation of music explains how man creats God as well as godliness. Ratan jana

[@anutanud]

what a pleasant. calm!

[@warren284]

So fine. So fine. and again so fine

[@pulakparag]

Gamak and meedh - out of the world!

[@GraceComet3417]

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

[@boney16nxt]

amazing taankari

[@berndsticklun1915]

einfach nur grandios.

[@pradeepghosh1]

There can't be another !

[@gundiahgundi230]

Really hreat.it gives me lot of peace.High Regards

[@soumyahuddar2410]

Totally sublime music. 🌷🌷

[@harishankerbhardwaj5343]

Really soul searching. 🎉

[@barendrabhaumik9240]

Extraordinary!!!!

[@Meinnearach0204]

This is an antidepressant raga.

[@sudipbosu8787]

that sublime tabla playing!

[@shamganguly8091]

So close to Ustad Amit Khans Hansdhani. Simply beautiful. In tabla Kanai Dutta, Aha ki sangat.

[@sekar5633]

Great are the teacher and student. Great writing.

[@sambhudatta6000]

excellent, superb

[@besigmarenco2336]

Beautiful

[@skylight6801]

Asadharon, apurbo, Full of Godliness

[@ayan849]

god is dead - nietzsche (just kidding)

[@manasjana4589]

Music incredible

[@nirbhaygarg6036]

Nice of you to put jamini roy background

[@sikhamukhopadhyay5109]

superb!!

[@gundiahgundi230]

Really it is very great

[@sisirkumarshome6070]

Susie shome This brings tears to eye

[@vijayankrishnan4839]

sublime

[@kundha1]

great!

[@changa3012]

If Hamsadhwani is, it be like this. Thanks.

[@madhavmaithani7108]

DEVINE

[@quinopro]

Yo, this is my favo for meditation

[@subhasisbanerjee6240]

Excellent.

[@TheRobertodarapallo]

Nice music. Blissfull music. Still Ravi Shankar reached higher skies. Jai Sat Chit Anand✌🏻☮️

[@ayan849]

can you play it?

[@tapobrataha]

Ravi Shankar was more rhythmic. Nikhil Banerjee was more spiritual and classical. They had different approaches to the same raga.

[@unity1206]

Comparison is baseless!!! Every great artist approach us in different paths with different perspectives . Rsb

[@binoychandralaskar806]

Excellent

[@chitraparanjpe2596]

God of sitar.

[@prodeepghosh5169]

Who is on the tabla? Swapan Choudhury? As expected Nikhil Babu coaxes the sublimest notes from the sitar. An absolute master.

[@swarupagatlevar9080]

incredible II

[@prembhavesh4126]

Thank you

[@radheyshyamtewari7710]

prem bhavesh

[@sisirkumarshome6070]

I agree with Sudip Babu.

[@pauldresher2007]

Ayan: Do you know when (and where, but that's less important) this was recorded? As always, Nihkil's playing is transcendental!

[@stoneridge14522]

Indeed, transcendental is the exact word. The tabla player matched panditji's prowess.

[@musafirrahgir3199]

Kanai Dutt on the Tabla during 1960s.

[@ravichavan10]

Apratim

[@bspatl]

good !

[@skylight6801]

Darun

[@matstertacniqalyt2437]

Good.

[@nahidulislam7102]

Thanx Ayon Babu .

[@AmanExplorerBoy]

it is laagi lagan pati sakhi sang

[@sushantasarkar9333]

Marvellous

[@tamalde]

What a bandish

[@laurenharrington5054]

wow

[@layes77]

meghe dhaka tara

[@babubhairathore7011]

aho.divyam.sundaram.sangeetam.ragam....hansadwani....param.priyam..riday.man.ke.karib..astu.prem...agyat.

[@sudipbosu8787]

I don’t like to draw any comparison but NB has always been better than RS.

[@ratanbanarjee9343]

Absolutely Agree with you!👍

[@ravinchowdhury5215]

RS was a performer, I can't tell what NB was

[@ravinchowdhury5215]

Of course, I mean that in a good way

[@bangaloredragon8]

Absolutely no doubt!

[@manasjana4589]

Both are great musician with different style. The listeners are never uniform. No judgement would be ideal ,and may hinder to get best of these two legends

[@surekhabhagwat8646]

Simply devine

[@sashakingcrimson5462]

Sasha king crimson ₪₪₪₪

[@Lord.Dakshinamurthy]

:)

[@spacemissing]

No one else could have such an effect. Marvelous. However, the original recording is of rather poor quality.

[@alekhyabhattacharya9779]

pt.shyamal bose

[@anindyamukherji6889]

TABLA PLAYER IS NOT SHYAMAL BOSE..

[@bouquet3216]

Raga - Hamsadwani - see Title

[@anindyamukherji6889]

DEFINITELY THIS IS NOT Pt SHYAMAL BOSE ON TABLA. I AM 100% SURE.

[@debmallyachanda2264]

Anindya Mukherji tabla player can be pt anindya chatterjee....

[@shanmugamdr5016]

Any body can clear my doubts please .what is the difference between Hamsathavani and Hansthavani!!?

[@rajshreebagewadi5672]

There are many spellings for hamsadhwani ..it is the same

[@shanmugamdr5016]

@@rajshreebagewadi5672 thanks for your kindness and response

[@IndianClassical97]

Someone please attach the name of the tabla player...

[@alekhyabhattacharya9779]

pt.shyamal bose

[@buttgoomagoo6408]

The bongo player is name beatem hard

[@dilipsaraftopcoach]

Pt. Shyamlal Bose

[@ajithap2692]

A PERFECT EXAMPLE FOR HOW A THIRD RATE TABALJI CAN SPOIL CELESTIAL MUSIC....

[@tamaghnachakraborty9962]

Ajitha P and you are the perfect example of a man who has no musical sense . Do you even know who is this great maestro.. ??? Ustad amir khan didn't sing in kolkata without him... Go and listen to zakir hussain because guys like you only know this name... Though you don't even have any idea about tabla.. and mind your tounge before telling such horrible things about a maestro .

[@tamaghnachakraborty9962]

Ajitha P And for your kind information even Zakir ji also used treat him with respect and used call him "Shyamal Chacha"

[@anindyamukherji6889]

YOU ARE RIGHT.A PERFECT EXAMPLE FOR HOW A THIRD RATE TABALA PLAYER CAN SPOIL CELESTIAL MUSIC,THIS IS NOT Pt SHYAMAL BOSE IAM SURE BECAUSE HE WAS MY GURU.AYAN WAS WRONG.THAT SHOULD BE CORRECTED.

[@Prof_Hazra_IIT]

@@tamaghnachakraborty9962 This is probably not Pt. Shyamal Bose. The open banyan sound hints to more of Pandit Kanai Dutta ji. I could be wrong though. Please pardon these crass youtube commentators. They speak with little knowledge and information.

[@tamaghnachakraborty9962]

@@Prof_Hazra_IIT yes I completely agree with you. This sounds just like pt. kanai Dutta but it's little too much for him also.. he used to do a different style of sangat

[@teentaal4355]

Sublime sitar, inspite of the amateurish tabla accompaniment.

[@anupghosh890]

I am sorry to say the person who uploaded this rendition of Pt Nikhil Banerjee he has done a great mistake that it has written Pt Shyamal Bose accompanied in this audio recording.Unfortunately, it's totally wrong and it's a great insult in the reputation of Pt Shyamal Bose's tabla playing.I am a senior most disciple of Pt Shyamal Bose since 1976.One of my Gurubhai,Anindo Mukherjee has already sent complaints in the same reason.Please delete Pt Shyamal Bose's name from this audio clipping

[@gautamsen6423]

Basically a Raga, based on the South Indian Classical style, Hansdhwani is a very melidious one. Pandit Nikhil Banerjee has played here in a completely different style on Drut Gat only, which he usually does not perform in this form to express a Raga to portray its character. However, he has played it superbly.

[@gautamsen6423]

The accompaniment on tabla has probably been provided by Sri Anindo Chatterjee,as appears from the style of playing the tabla

[@gautamsen6423]

There are four South Indian Classical Ragas which have been performed both on vocal music as well as on different Instruments of North Indian Classical Artistes. These are, Kirwani, Charukeshi, Hanswadhani and Shibaranjani. Specially on instruments like Sitar and Sarode of renowned Artistes like Pt Ravishankar, Pt Nikhil Banerjee and Ut Ali Akhbar Khan,Ut Amjad Ali Khan besides, on vocal music rendered by Ut Amir Khan Saheb ,Smt Kishori Amonkar ji etc.

[@bibhakarchakraborty7430]

Requires more practice

[@ayan849]

who?

[@bibhakarchakraborty7430]

@@ayan849 tabla

[@ankanghosh4020]

Ek baar keliye daar Gaya ki pt Nikhil bannerjee ke bare me bol raha hai. Waise bhi jo log nikhil bannerjee ka sangat deta hai woh bhi kisi kam nahi. I am learning from maihar gharana and nikhil bannerjee is my idol for his devotion.

[@AmanExplorerBoy]

Beautiful