Pannalal Ghosh Bhairavi Thumri

Bhairavi thumri by Pt. Pannalal Ghosh

[@ramenchakrabarti4028]

We are very fortunate that because of the KZbin we are getting the opportunity to listen to these excellent musics. Pannalal Ghosh was the person who popularized the Indian Flute to the World..

[@angelandany2202]

The unsurpassed master of South Indian flute. The pablo Casals of the reed!

[@MKOA100]

A great son of Bengal - hailed from Barisal, now Bangladesh. Bangali flute players have a different melody, a blend of sweet Baul and Bhatyali tunes.

[@rogerducasse5485]

Incredible treasure, this set of ragas magnificently rendered by Pannalal Ghosh, widely considered the greatest flute player India has ever known. The depth of this alap, the swinging jor, the sweet bandishes, all rendered in a deep calm. To me this ranks among the highest level of raga performing, all done in deep meditation. The virtuosity is never shown off. Ghosh had that rare quality, apparently, of greatness and absence of ego. I am in awe and always will be.

[@wmrajput]

Roger Ducasse u hit the nail. it is never about a dsiplay of skill with pannalal. only a state of meditation.

[@yogeshkale2645]

Wa how beautifully explained. Its divine and pure soul. Pannalal ji ko safar pranam

[@fune70]

Roger Ducasse I

[@fune70]

No doubt he is the sweetest flute player- of India besides being the greatest.-mittra

[@jyotighosh3005]

নি অপদ

[@amithgupta2012]

i could just cry and cry in bliss..sooooo serene soooo beautiful

[@Rekha_Hegde]

No words to express the peaceful ambience he creates.....pranams to his holy feet

[@willieluncheonette5843]

"The whole night the wind went on blowing in the trees. The sound was so beautiful that I played Pannalal Ghosh, one of the flutists that Pagal Baba had introduced to me. Just now too, I was playing his music, but he has a way of his own. His introduction is very long, so before Gudia called me it was still only the introduction. I mean he had not started playing his flute yet. The sitar and tabla were preparing the ground for him to play his flute. Last night I listened to his music again after perhaps two years. Pagal Baba has to be talked about only in an indirect way; that was the quality of the man. He was always in brackets, very invisible. He introduced me to many musicians, and I always asked him why. He said, "One day you will be a musician." I said, "Pagal Baba, sometimes it seems people are right: you are mad. I am not going to be a musician. He laughed and said, "I know that. Still I say you will be a musician." Now, what to make of it? I have not become a musician, but in a way he was right. I have not played on musical instruments, but I have played on thousands of hearts. I have created a far deeper music than any instrument can - non-instrumental, non-technical. I liked those three flutists - at least their music - but not all of them liked me. Hari Prasad always loved me. He never bothered that I was a child and he was old, and a world-famous musician. He not only loved me, he respected me. Once I asked him, "Hari Baba, why do you respect me?" He replied, "If Baba respects you, then there is no question. I trust Pagal Baba, and if he touches your feet, and you are just a child, I know he knows something that I am incapable of knowing right now. But that does not matter. He knows; that is enough for me." He was a devotee. The musician I listened to last night, and was again trying to hear just now before I came in, Pannalal Ghosh, neither liked nor disliked me. He was not a man of strong likes or dislikes - a very flat man, no hills, no valleys, just a far stretching plain. But he played the flute in his own way as nobody else has ever done before, or can ever do again. With his flute he roared like a lion. I once asked him, "In your life you are more like a sheep, a Bengali BABU." He was from Bengal, and in India, Bengalis are the most unaggressive people, so anybody who is a coward is called a Bengali Babu. I told him, "You are an authentic Bengali Babu. What happens when you play the flute? You become a lion." He said, "Something certainly happens. I am no more myself, otherwise I would be the same Bengali Babu, just the same cowardly man that I am. But something happens, I am possessed." That's exactly the words he used. "I am taken over by it, I don't know what. Perhaps you know. Otherwise why does Pagal Baba have so much respect for you? I have never seen him touch anybody's feet except yours. All the great musicians come to him just for his blessing, and to touch his feet." Pagal Baba introduced me to many people, not only flutists. Perhaps in some circle of my story they will come in. But what Pannalal Ghosh said was very significant. He said, "I become possessed. Once I start playing, I am no more; something else is. It is not Pannalal Ghosh." I am quoting his words. He then said, "That's why it takes such a long introduction before I play. I am condemned everywhere because of my long introduction... because flutists are not known to have such long introductions." He was the Bernard Shaw of the flute world. With George Bernard Shaw... his book may have been only ninety pages long but the introduction would be three hundred pages. Pannalal Ghosh said, "People cannot understand, but I can tell you, that I have to wait to become possessed, hence the long introduction. I cannot start playing until it comes." These are truly the words of an authentic artist, but only the authentic artist, not the journalistic type, the third-rate artist. It is better not to call this type an artist at all. He writes about music, but knows nothing of the experience; he writes about poetry without ever composing a single poem; he writes about politics and has never been in the thick of the struggle. It is tooth and nail in the political world."

[@ripansarker7883]

কবীর সুমনের মুখে উনার প্রশংসা শুনে এখানে আসলাম। আহা! কি দারুণ!

[@sanjivkumar05]

लाजबाब जितने बार सुना मन नहीं भरा।

[@pawankumarnetrakanti5774]

Today is Pt Pannalal Ghosh 111th birthday. Pranam and respects to Panna babuji. 🙏🏽

[@debamitabhatta7822]

A aha beautiful. My pronam to panditjee

[@MizanurRahman-de2kn]

Just the beauty of the earth ! The echoes of human civilization!

[@debmalyar]

The 'bharavi' played here differs distinctly from the ones u r used to listen in the recordings of other celebrated artists.

[@kiyoto123]

What a bhairavi and what what a artist to listen to Pannalalji is like to open gate to God

[@dihuramnagesh162]

Flute's god of India

[@উচ্চারণওনির্মাণ]

ঈশ্বর বাঁশি বাজালে এভাবেই বাজাবেন।❤❤

[@Reincarnation111]

The very sound of a 'bansuri' evokes a feeling that echoes in the deepest levels of the soul....and it seems that I am somewhere in the groves of Vrindavan searching and waiting for the illusive Lord.

[@vimalsoneji4078]

Sharad ji reading babu Ji’s Bk by Shri vishvas Kulkarni n remember u as the youngest student n cried a lot at the Bombay central station when babuji n Parul didi we’re leaving for Delhi

[@kakasher3923]

This Raaga goes deep into heart. Pdt. Pannalal Ghosh plays it the best of all Bhairavis. Soooo beautiful.

[@gautammukhopadhaya4546]

I've just completed listening to14 good full-length very satisfying ragas of Pannalal Ghosh lasting nearly 10 hrs uploaded by Sharad Maholay over 4 days. I should feel sated, but I am ready for more. They were truly brilliant recordings. Are there any more?

[@shashikantchinchore9166]

Gautam Mukhopadhaya , सुंदर💐💐💐

[@ssimba2785]

Wonderful

[@mohammednizamuddin4955]

I fully agree p.g. is the greatest flutist of all times, just like r.s. on sitar and alla rakha on tabla!

[@bushankhashu3226]

My pulse really dropped down by 10 beats while listening to this melody . Greatest flutist that ever lived .

[@nik5129]

Can't say greatest

[@physicsonline8853]

@@nik5129 It's a matter of opinion but: I happen to agree. At least as far as North Indian Classical music is concerned.

[@nik5129]

@@physicsonline8853 Hariprasad Chaurasia?

[@physicsonline8853]

@@nik5129 Hariprasad Chaurasia is unquestionably the greatest flutist to have come upon the scene since Pannalal Ghoh and will always remain as one of the all time greats. It is not even right to compare the two maestros; if I do, I discern a difference in style; I feel Pannalal's style and tonality is cleaner.Note that this is my personal opinion; others may well differ, and I respect their opinion.

[@nik5129]

@@physicsonline8853 Hariji purely plays instrumental style inspired from Sitar and later developed his own style with dhrupad ang- jod jhalla. Pannaji is purely playing gayaki khayal style. However both incomparable. but statement of greatest flutist ever made me clarify this. :)

[@sajjadhussain1573]

Genius flute master

[@dihunagesh8096]

World father of bamboo flute great panna da

[@surenderbhutani3470]

A genius. Just listen to Babul More.... Panna Babu was married to Anil Biswas's sister Parul.

[@od0m0skamalaji4]

Vah bahut Sundar man vichalit tha Bansuri sunte hi theek ho gaya vah vah

[@munmundas4373]

🙏Parfect 🙏

[@vidyagaikwad5817]

Late. Pannalaji.s.Bansuri.is.soul.touchong.

[@Rajasthanfolksong]

वाह ! क्या बात है! इसे कहते है भैरवी जनाब !

[@vaijayantideshpande7624]

Pt.Pannalalji ka bansuri-vadan is Bhagawan Shri Krishna ji ka bansuri vadan.

[@gautamroy3640]

THE RESONANCE OF THIS PIECE WILL BE VERY HARD TO LEAVE as is always with a MASTERPIECE.

[@shripadwarudkar6487]

Thanks a lot...

[@mulgapodi]

very serene! Thanks for sharing this gem

[@divyarajsinhrana6560]

🍁🙏🏻🍁

[@borisivanov6274]

Amazing performance! Very beautiful!

[@thebabudada]

What a melody. Enchanting.

[@hullasnikajoo9095]

The sound. Of God.🙏🙏

[@LionKing-nt5bf]

THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US

[@sufsanin1917]

Who played the tabla?

[@kakdwipalckakdwip22]

Pt Nikhil Ghosh ,brother of Pt Pannalal Ghosh was played tabla.

[@gogibaj07]

Immortal music.....,..,

[@abidshigribaltistan3739]

Yayyyyyyy,

[@ranujha44]

🙏🙏🙏

[@prabhakarpatankar8161]

You feel as if you are in the heavens

[@ops4607]

Mesmerizing....

[@dr.navyakalavenky1993]

He is Lord krishna aamsa

[@sobujsarker2549]

Outstanding

[@anayatmehrabi7551]

Beautiful!

[@chanchalchakraborty3953]

Very very Nice

[@altafaltaf3004]

Baansuri is a better name than flute.the former is music all.the later floundering flat.

[@knockabout7691]

প্রনাম জানাই

[@rashmiwagh6036]

Superb

[@sohagsong]

Heaven

[@manikdhore6821]

Immortal

[@hasmukhparekh7601]

....has flute has "evolved" since his time?

[@TejasM14]

Of course it has. The world has radically changed since his times. Talent and access to learning is abundant now. Flute technique might have improved as well. However this kind of meditative and introspective music has simply disappeared.

[@UPAKHOSALA]

If u listen a Flautist based on Ahmedabad pt. KOTECHA AND HIS DISCIPLE NIVEDITA MURTY u will find that not all Good things have disappeared, their style Resembles Pt.Pannalalji , but the Recording of this Rendition is very poor

[@나레쉬]

Nice

[@manisharamteke3348]

Very sweet

[@samprasadmajumdar1697]

IMMORTAL WORLD MUSIC.

[@kimjongbean2772]

Is anybody here after reading Glimpse of golden childhood book by Osho?

[@billo786]

Very nice

[@Fathur1Rabbani]

Old School

[@thrabitoffical]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@00774715]

manomukhdhakar,mone hoye keno sesh hoea galo?

[@akrammassan303]

Very good Panalal

[@somanthbhattacharya5485]

Zoolu

[@faithfulsoul5020]

Pt Hariprasad Chaurasiya to ek diya bhi nahi hai is sooraj ke aage..

[@govindpalkirtan]

its not right to compare like that dude. i would like to see you try to be a "sooraj" in front of pandit hariprasad chaurasia if you think he's that bad.

[@shradhakarandikar253]

Don’t compare the great artists. Every one has his own style and beauty

[@gautamroy3640]

Such comparison is unwelcome, as would be comparing Ustad Baba Allauddin Khan Saheb with Ustad Hafez Alin Khan Saheb or comparing Pt. Omkkarnath Thakur with Ustad Faiyaz Khan Saheb and so on. Such performers were and are legends in their own right and are considered with awe and respect as should be their due. Was pleased that you enjoyed the recording of Pt. Pannalal Ghosh to your heart's fulfillment. Regards.

[@kiyoto123]

@@shradhakarandikar253 beautiful sayin

[@RANAATE]

One cannot compare two unique artistes. Each one excels in his own style. Appreciating art is very subjective.