Raag Mishra Shivaranjani (Sitar Recital) -by Nikhil Banerjee ~Complete Recording

Raag Mishra Shivaranjani (Short Alap, Gat)
(for short version) • Raag Mishra Shivaranja...
Sitarist : Pandit Nikhil Banerjee
Tabla Player : Anindo Chatterjee
A Syed Wajid's Presentation
*Pandit Nikhil Banerjee (1931-1986) was one of India's most prominent sitar players of the second half of the 20th Century. He never achieved the glamour of Vilayat Khan or his gurubhai Ravi Shankar, but Nikhil Banerjee did win great critical acclaim and the hearts of many music lovers. He is remembered as a musician's musician.
Nikhil Banerjee was born in Calcutta, his father Jitendranath Banerjee, an amateur sitariya, taught him to play the instrument. Young Nikhil grew into a child prodigy, won an All-Bengal Sitar Competition at the age of 9 and soon was playing for All India Radio. At the time, his sister was a student of khyal great Amir Khan, who became a life-long influence.
In 1947 Banerjee met Allauddin Khan of Maihar Gharana, who was to become his main guru. Allauddin did not want to take on more students, but changed his mind after listening to one of Banerjee's radio broadcasts.
Obviously, what Allauddin was passing on to most of his students was not playing technique but the musical knowledge and approach of the Maihar gharana (school); yet there was a definite trend and discipline in his teaching to infuse the sitar and sarod with the been-baj aesthetic of the Rudra veena, surbahar and sursringar -- long, elaborate alap (unaccompanied improvisation) built on intricate meend work (bending of the note).
After some five years in Maihar, Banerjee embarked on a concert career that was to take him to all corners of the world and last right up to his death. All through his life he kept taking lessons from Baba Allauddin and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna Devi. Perhaps reflecting his early upbringing, he always remained a humble musician, and was content with much less limelight than a player of his stature could have vied for. For him, music-making was a spiritual rather than a worldly path. Even so, in 1968, he was decorated with the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.
Although he recorded extensively, the studio environment made Banerjee nervous. Not so the concert hall; his live albums, many of which were brought out around the turn of the 21st Century by Raga Records in New York, are widely considered to be the finest documents of his playing. Today, he is regarded as one of the greatest traditional sitarists of the 20th century.
His interpretation of ragas was always highly traditional; at his very best, it was of the kind that would bring out wholly new ideas from a raga, ideas packing enormous surprise in that they were so clearly linked to tradition, yet so previously unthought of. He created a raga Manomanjari of his own, mixing ideas from Kalavati and Marwa.
Throughout his career, Nikhil Banerjee played a Hiren Roy sitar.
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[@dharmappabarki5139]

Ustad Vilayat Khan and Pt.Nikhil Banerjee are synonymous with Sitar and for their fingers’ sweetness on this divine string instrument. They are my lifetime fav.

[@swajidz21]

you paid tribute so well,...

[@Ambid-bu1wl]

No words are sufficient to describe the Divine beauty of Panditjee's 🙏🙏🙏 performance

[@smitamudgerikar9756]

His sitar sings the song of the gods!

[@yagneshdave2544]

You never get tired listening Nikhilda and Ali akbar khan sahed- what a meditative rendition

[@swajidz21]

rightly said,...

[@ritasreedas1931]

Legend always bleed on his instrument through his Magical Fingers, Divine Heart & Soul 🙏🙏🙏

[@swajidz21]

excellent tribute,...

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Mone hochhe.. Sangeet sudha sagar e dube jachhi..Ki apurba sristi .. Dhanya aamader Amar Silpi..

[@swajidz21]

Thanks a lot,...

[@gautamsen6423]

Such a melodious rendition by Pandit Nikhil Banerjee to portray the chracter of the Raga, Shivaranjani, basically a South Indian Classical Raga, fills the heart of his Audience with a sense of joy and pathos ,while hearing this melody of the Raga in his extraordinary Sitar recital . This is something beyond human perception .

[@swajidz21]

truly said,...

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Really devine......

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Legends never die, they live through their divine music 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@swajidz21]

rightly said,...

[@upendrapatel57]

So divine, sublime!!my favourite sitarist!!

[@manasbanerjee259]

Godgifted angel of music

[@pradyotsarkar7074]

The Great Artist - Deeply Absorbing Style of Raag Presentation Made Him Unique And Uncomparable.

[@swajidz21]

exactly said,...

[@andazah]

Kyaa Bhaat, Subhannallah, thanks for sharing.

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Speechless I am.❤❤❤

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Fantastic write-up and presentation!!

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Waah dil chu liya....pandit ji ko pranaam

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Nothing to say about him only I can say sitar is NIKHIL BANNERJEE and nikhil bannerjee is SITAR.

[@swajidz21]

rightly said,...

[@VILAYATU]

At his best!

[@chewstan]

I’ll sleep well tonight:

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Bliss❤❤❤❤

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One with soul

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🖤

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🙏!

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🙏🙏🙏

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Konsa taal hai?

[@ijayashree]

Jhaaptal

[@InwardArts]

Rupak, not Jhaptal.

[@SatheeshKumar-ml6nl]

no doubt better than ravisankarji

[@YourNEBOSHguide]

I agree. For some reason i was never enticed by ravishankarji. The way nikhilda pours his soul while playing the sitar, ravisbanmar never achieved that.

[@yagneshdave2544]

Very true. He never plays with gallary​@YourNEBOSHguide