Raga Khamaj I Ragam Tanam Pallavi I Ranjani and Gayatri I Carnatic Vacal I Live at BCMF 2016

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Ranjani and Gayatri, the supremely gifted Carnatic vocalist duo gave their first performance on Bangladeshi soil on the fourth night of the Bengal Classical Music Fest, and became instant sweethearts of the Dhaka audience with their melodious performance. Carnatic vocalist-duo Ranjani and Gayatri rendered six recitals including nattai-saraswati, raga pantuvarali, raga mukhari, raga khamaj and "Vithoba chala mandirat" in raga maru bihag. Ranjani and Gayatri said something very meaningful, “When you have wealth, you have many friends, when there is no money, friends leave you”. Ghatam was a simple earthen pot, but the way it was played was simply mind blowing.
Recorded at Bengal Classical Music Festival on 27 Nov 2016, at Army Stadium, Dhaka:
Artists:
-Ranjani and Gayatri (carnatic vocal)
Co-artistes:
-K Sai Giridhar (mridangam)
-Charumathi Raghuraman (violin)
-Chandrasekara Sharma (ghatam)
-Latifun Julio (tanpura)
-Susmita Debnath Suchi (tanpura)
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The Bengal Classical Music Festival organised by Bengal Foundation.The Bengal Classical Music Festival, an initiative of Bengal Foundation’s Music Programme, is the world’s largest classical music festival in terms of the number of performers on a single stage, audience capacity and duration. The Foundation introduced the Classical Music Festival back in 2012.
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Ranjani and Gayatri are one of the rare few who have achieved enduring success in both violin and vocal music. After more than a decade as successful violinists of high calibre, the sisters' foray into vocal music has brought them instant recognition and wide acclaim.
Ranjani and Gayatri began their music career as violin duet artistes even before they reached their teens. Through their intense training, command over the violin and fine artistry, they quickly established themselves as top-class violinists of international repute. The sisters started giving vocal concerts since 1997, and within barely three years, have won high praise from discerning critics and music lovers all over the globe. Their music, imbued with a deep and abiding classicism, has been described as an exhilarating blend of vitality, melody and emotion. Endowed with strong and pliant voices, the sisters have a striking style of their own, which has won the hearts of the traditionalist and the lay rasika at once.
Ranjani and Gayatri owe their rich musical heritage to the focussed and high-level training received from their gurus - Sangita Bhooshanam TS Krishnaswami for violin and Sangeeta Kala Acharya Sri PS Narayanaswamy for vocal. They had their initial vocal training from their mother Smt. Meenakshi Balasubramaniam, from whom they still continue to learn.
Recent awards include the Kalki Krishnamurthy Memorial Award awarded by the Kalki Trust and the prestigious National Eminence Award given by the Shanmukhananda Sabha, Mumbai in the year 2004.
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[@vishalvaidya6065]

Just too wonderful for words! Not just the music but also the visual aesthetics!! 💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏

[@setai5thav]

What an incredible RTP by these magical duo - I should say trio- Charumathyji is an amazing partner to the gifted Raga Sisters. The video was very good - with a good sound system it felt like I was in the concert Hall - though I have to admit that the experience of physical presence in their concert is hard to replicate. Bravo !!

[@anki9093]

So much love and respect for these ladies ❤️

[@Perikamana1985]

In every kacheri, there will be a special,like this....

[@bharathysubramanian1943]

“Ranjani & Gayathri sagOdhariGaLin paattaik kEtka muguntha aananthmE aagum. Enjoy hearing the same with enjoyable pakka VaathyanGaLOdu.” - “M.K.Subramanian.”

[@Perikamana1985]

As usual a great rtp from raga....❤

[@subramanianrs318]

🎉❤🎉

[@simamukherjee1500]

Nice❤❤

[@vishnushanbhogue7882]

Ranjani / Gayatri’s RTP is always a special treat, especially fr me hu turned from Hindustani to Carnatic , of course I admit too late….( except Veena Vaadan , may b bcz my Dad was a Veena player. . .Ametur nt professional )

[@kausalyamadhusudana3717]

Bhale 👏👌 Bhale ! Bhale! Violin support 🙏 Excellent 👌👏👌👏

[@balakrishnakaimal2396]

Very good performance entire program excellent thanks and thanks for your team from vaikom

[@babupr475]

Excellent.

[@karthikiyengar6141]

Wonderful great intellectual no comparison mesmerizing

[@SRSubramanian-ow8hx]

Spell bounded wonderful performance 🌹🙏🌹

[@balakrishnakaimal2396]

Excellent performance thanks a lot for you and your team

[@balakrishnakaimal2396]

Really excellent and very very good thanks and thanks a lot

[@Sreeprayag]

Wow. Struggling to find apt words. Simply stunning

[@sundaramthiags]

Excellent rendering. But one doubt which I have for many years. I have heard many such duets right from Alathur, Radha Jayalakshmi, B V Raman Lakshmanan, Hydrabad Brothers n so on. Somehow I have a feeling one of the singers seem to dominate the other. Never a equally participated duet. Correct me if I am wrong.

[@nskdvk51]

This bound to be there when one of the singers is more gifted and it is graciously accepted by the other. Gayathri always goes into unexplored territories and bring out novel ideas whereas Ranjani sticks to the traditional idiom. That is the beauty of their concerts.

[@DineshKumar-ii7sz]

Very very nice ❤

[@-fs1hx]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@bhargavram3480]

So there’s no raga called as Khamaj in karnatic music, it’s called khamas with an ‘S’, and is unlikely to have any relation with the raga khamaj of Hindustani