Sitar on Fire | Raag Lalit (Part 2) | Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee | Music of India

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Budhaditya Mukherjee is revered for his extraordinary command of the sitar and surbahar, with many counting him among the world’s leading exponents of both - at age 22 veena maestro S Balachander described him as the ‘sitar artist of the century’. He first started learning from his father Bimalendu Mukherjee, an eclectic musician who studied under sitarist Enayat Khan as well as a plethora of singers, beenkars, percussionists, and sarangi, esraj, and sursringar exponents.
Budhaditya achieved success early, winning various competitions while also pursuing academic work (he graduated with a first class degree in Metallurgical Engineering, and it is said that he barely made a key exam on time after flying straight in from a performance). In his youth he sought to replicate the distinctive sound of Vilayat Khan (“my goal, the shining star, and the sun in whose ambience I too wanted to bathe”). He began to tour internationally, and holds the curious distinction of being the first musician to perform in the British House of Commons. Always seeking to broaden his musical vocabulary, he is considered to be the first sitarist to capture the intricacies of tappa vocal music - a semi-classical style derived from Punjabi camel-riders replete with fast, distinctively angular melodies, typically depicting the emotional outbursts of a lover.
He has customised his sitars using his engineering knowledge, and brings new imagination to playing them with a fine-lens command of the Imdadkhani gayaki ang [singing style]. He is notoriously uninterested in self-promotion, and prides himself on musical self-control, not allowing his near-unrivalled speed to distract from the underlying shape of a melody (“speed in sitar music is an incidental decoration, not the core on which aesthetics of sitar music stands”). A stellar performance career has not prevented him from living out a strong commitment to teaching - he is among India’s most respected gurus, with students including Dhruv Bedi and Gagandeep Hothi. He has also held academic positions in Rotterdam and Venice, and tours the world, enrapturing audiences of newcomers and old connoisseurs alike. Listen to more of Budhaditya here:
-Mian Ki Malhar | • Epic Sitar in a Thunde...
-Todi | • Video
Lalit is an oddly-shaped raga intended for performance around the time of sunrise. Its modern form takes the notes SrGmMdNS, with shuddha Ma as the vadi [king note]. Note the absence of Pa, and the adjacent use of both tivra and shuddha Ma in descent - a rare, perhaps even unique feature (twin-swara ragas typically permit one version of the note in ascent and the other in descent). This leads some to say that the tivra Ma functions as a kind of komal Pa in practice - something supposedly forbidden in Hindustani classical (although the concept is mentioned in ancient texts such as the Natya Shastra). Different traditions may use either a komal or a shuddha Dha, and others hold that it is in fact a microtone somewhere between these two tones. It is similar to Carnatic Raga Lalitha, suggesting a common source. Hear more of Lalit here:
-Jyoti Hegde (rudra veena) | • Raag Lalit | Solo Rudr...
-Rajendra Prasanna (bansuri) | • Enchanting Raag Lalit ...
-Indrani Mukherjee (khayal) | • Mesmerising Raag Lalit...
Recorded at Darbar Festival 2017, at London’s Southbank Centre:
-Budhaditya Mukherjee (sitar)
-Soumen Nandy (tabla)
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India was shredding strings and jazzing it up before any one else.

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Well, to be honest this ain't shredding per say. Shredding requires way too much speed and precision. There is precision here for sure but not speed, for speed is against the very nature of Hindustani classical music.

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Perfect at 4 AM

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Sitar sounds give a feeling of stars (glitter) falling into my ears... melodious 🎶🎶

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I am in total transcendental state while listening to this amazing Lalit. It is one of life’s most pleasant experiences to hear Raag Lalit from Pt.Budhaditya Mukherjee. I have heard his Lalit on two cassettes, heard his Lalit live at Sadarang festival in Kolkata in 1980s and enjoyed all. But this rendition immerses you in the ocean of infinite, unending exuberance. The constant array of tuneful notes accompanied by perfect rhythm on Tabla by Soumen Nandy makes a musical journey without parallel. Inside your heart you feel that this musical journey continues forever.

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The greatest sitar player of our time!

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No doubt

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God level focus . Salute to both the Ustads

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[@HarshdeepSingh_Sangam]

Toughest Instrument to play in Indian Classical Music. Really It’s Sitar on fire. 🙏🏻🌹.

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What a brilliant execution of jhala from the genius and hats off to Soumen bhai for the classic theka!!

[@alurnataraj3915]

It is very soothing early in the morning. Thank you for uploading

[@parthoghose6952]

What an amazing rendition, beyond words!! At first time stood still, and then slowly I got immersed into that mesmeric divinity he could so effortlessly create. He is undoubtedly the greatest living sitar maestro in the world today. A very high quality of accompaniment on the tabla too!

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I have been Waiting for Pandit ji's video for the festival. Thanks for uploading!

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My wrist, forearm and elbow wen numb just watching this, lol. Awesome 🎶

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Please mention tabla artiste's name also. Kya theka lagaya hai!!

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Table player is Soumen Nandy.

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superb Theka .....

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I personally felt lack in theka in first part

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Brilliant is not even the word..

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Ecstacy is

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Panditji is good. But Shriman Soumen is excelling by leaps and bounds.

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Man that tabla was flawless.

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Sitar is elixir for my heart goes straight from ears to heart... ♥️

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Thanks to Darbar... listen this Raga several times...Unparalleled..in this planet..Thank to Pandit ji..every times it brings my tears while listening.. My Pranam 🙏🙏🙏

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Great recital from down to earth artists

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out standing. many thanks for this upload.

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मुझे सितार से प्रेम है I love sitar

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very nice play by Pt.ji and Soumen bhai. Venue and year please, anyone?

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Though music is haram in Islam but I am fond of our traditional music

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This is total Devotion🙏🏼

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Too much echo

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Simply marvellous. Thanks to both the artists.

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PANDIT JI ... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Aha.... kya baat hai Panditji.... Pranaam 🙏🙏🙏

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Magistral...increible

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thoroughly enjoyed this

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Simply marvellous!!!!!!

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No words

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A live lalit.

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pranam Panditji

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❤️❤️❤️

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Mastery in action !

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I think there are artists also seating in the audience like Patri Satish Kumar and many others am I right?

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oh my god

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elegant

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Sir ..... Speechless

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Nice

[@aniketdas7768]

He is such a great sitar player but hasn't covered his legs with shawl

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He doesn't. Maybe that's more comforting with open legs.

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sometimes u feel uncomfortable or ur legs start to feel like moisten....or any other reason....even pandit ravi shankar also seen with opn legs without shawl....so we cant tell wht really is in artists' mind....

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what a class!

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🙏😇🙏😇🙏

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0:05

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🙏🏽

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