Ustad Vilayat Khan -Raga Pilu Ragamalika with vocal, Nov 1961

[@rafatsaid3648]

Dear Nirmalya This was an entirely impromptu performance. VK had been invited for dinner. Friends of my father like Gyan Babu, Sunil Da, Kumar Mukherjee, Kichlu Brothers, Dipali Nag, Kanans etc were present. One thing led to another and impulsively VK decided to play something. Someone was immediately dispatched to his house to get his sitar. One of the guests who was an amateur Tabla Player rushed to get his Tablas. He only played Pilu--- I guess he was finally hungry!! The last bit of Pilu could not be recovered because the spool was damaged. While this was the only time he played at our house, He visited often and sang old Bandishes. I have one such recital --- quality not good-- which I'll send to Raju soon

[@nirmalyamukhopadhyay1769]

No issue, Rafat Sahab. Through Shri Asokan, you have already shared a lot of very good music and I thank you both for your generosity from the bottom of my heart. Only, Ye Dil Mange More!

[@rafatsaid3648]

Mera bhi dil mange more!!

[@kerrylyra]

Ustad Vilayat Khan was more than a musician, musicians entertain us, Masters educate us!

[@achalagrawal6795]

Thank you Mr. Rafat Said Khan for sharing this treasure on web, and above all to your great father Mr. Farhat Said Khan for recording and preserving it from many decades. Mr. Raju Ashokan it would be very less if I complete my regards by just giving thanks, you have created a master library, I deeply obliged and thankful to you.

[@padmakarkodavatiganti857]

We are blessed with this posting !! Vintage GOLD !!

[@raghul2k]

There are no words to describe the feeling this recording evokes in me everytime I listen to it. I just drop my research and get transported into a musical time-space with all the notes of pilu moving around in a beautiful pattern around VKs sitar.

[@Houz23]

Listening to Ustadji when singing is an amazing experience...we will never be enough grateful to God to have sent Ustadji among us...

[@rafatsaid3648]

There is an anecdote attached to this recital, which Raju asked me to relate. As all who heard VK are aware how vociferously he used to react if he caught anyone recording him. In Bombay he even sued a close acquaintance for taping!! In fact apart from my father, for whom VK had a high personal regard, he never permitted anyone to tape his recordings. Even in my father's case he told him not to make it known to anyone that he had given him this special dispensation. This was the only time VK played at our house Hence a Crystal Vase with artifificial flowers was placed close to him and the microphone was placed inside, suitably camouflaged by the flowers--- an innocuous wire snaking out of the vase did not attract any unwarranted attention. This was one of the few occasions when my father taped!!-- otherwise he left it to me when I was a little older

[@banirbn]

RAFAT SAID Dear Rafat Sahib, how funny it is that you wrote about this because that is exactly what I was thinking of, when I saw Mr. Asokan's description of the recording, that it must have been rather difficult in a house concert to conceal the fact that the recital was being recorded. And of course, even a lay listener like me is also aware of how averse VK was to being recorded. Of course, it was his discretion as an artiste and one had to respect that but I very much regret that this might be the reason why so many fewer of his concert recordings are available (as compared to, say, Nikhil Banerjee) and of course, even fewer publicly shared. Once again, thanks very much to your generous sharing of these and Mr. Asokan's efforts in bringing them to us. Those of us who are not "insiders" in the highly hierarchical North Indian Classical Music circle in the subcontinent would have had no chance to get to listen to these.

[@banirbn]

Waha !! What a delicacy on the mundane Monday. Thanks so much, Mr. Asokan and of course to Mr. Rafat Said Khan.

[@basudebbanerjee3317]

This is amazing in its clarity of recording and of course the music.Those who have shared deserve all the heartfelt blessings.

[@ashokjankie8254]

Thank you very for sharing this treasure

[@kerrylyra]

Ustad Vilayat Khan was more than a musician, musicians entertain us, Masters educate us!

[@DrSDKhan]

if I had a time machine I would go to all his concerts in the 50s to 80s

[@p.j.h2401]

Glad u posted this

[@RajivChakravarti]

Very nice Raju. Thanks to Rafat sahib and you -- these wonderful pieces need to be heard! Rafat sahib's anecdotes add to the value of the piece. Looking forward to the other VK piece he said he would be sharing.

[@RajivChakravarti]

Indeed, Rafat sahib is very generous, and I thank him very much. You too deserve a part, though -- since you put in the "time" and "effort" to categorize, upload and label.

[@hamidgeramifard9736]

Rajiv Chakravarti thanks

[@SiddharthBhatnagar-o9w]

Mesmerising ! Is Khansaheb singing a bandish from Raga Gara after 0.53 ?

[@shivabreathes]

Wow... this is divine

[@quintenmail3405]

EVERY SITAR PLAYER IS GOOD THER IS AN SAYING HE IS THE BEST OF BEST SAW 2 CONCERT OF KHAN SAHEB

[@padmakarkodavatiganti857]

Where is the other part of this concert ? I beg, that too may kindly be uploaded

[@v9d13]

💐💐💐🙏🙏

[@sathyasaibaba1000]

It is my personal opinion that Pandit Ravi Shankar was NOTHING in comparison to Ustad Vilayat Khan Sahab🙏

[@nirmalyamukhopadhyay1769]

Thank you Rafat Said Khan Sahab and Shri Raju Asokan. As mentioned very correctly, UVK Sahab was hyper about his recital being recorded. The anecdote explains the amazing clarity of a 1961 recording. Thank you very much. Shall be extremely grateful if the first part is also shared. I am sure he did not begin and end with Ragmala in Pilu. Regards.

[@rafatsaid3648]

Nirmalya Mukhopadhyay

[@djarsas15]

قیامت کبرا بر پاست. روان و روح هر دو بزرگ مرد منرموسیقی شاد. گنجینه طلائی ....

[@rezwaichowdhury3932]

The performance is sujud wail divine

[@rezwaichowdhury3932]

Sorry it should read "The performance is sujud wali divine"

[@RamprapannaBhattacharya]

[@Saurangee]

Hello Raju ji.Namaskar..i have a few home recordings of Khan saaheb..i would like you to upload on your channel.! How do i go about it ? Thank you.☺️💐

[@vintageaudio54]

Yes, sure

[@vintageaudio54]

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[@saeedabano1]

Say what you will but it is certain that there will be hardly another sitar virtuoso like Vilayat Khan ever.

[@sediqanwar8986]

wa wa

[@majidhashemi319]

Enportion värm DAL, på de gato resturanter