2008. 3rd February, Sunday Trafó, Budapest Smt. Kaushiki Chakrabarty - Vocal (www.kaushiki.net Hiranmay Mitra - Harmonium Shahbaz Hussain - Tabla Christian Ledoux - Tampura The concert took place at Trafo (Budapest, Hungary) on 03.02.2008. as the 5th concert of the Masters of Indian Classical Music Series. More about the concert series: india.tilos.hu Smt. Kaushiki Chakrabarty was born in 1980 in the campus of Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata, Kaushiki Chakrabarty is now a scholar of the academy. The gurus of the Academy and the members of its Expert Committe repose a great hope in Kaushiki and have blessed her for a glorious musical future. By the grace of God, she could reproduce any musical and rhythmic phrase when she was only two years old. Kaushiki's mother, Chandna Chakrabarty was her first guru and very soon, Kaushiki became a "ganda-bandh" sagird (disciple) of her father's guru, Jnan Prakash Ghosh according to India's ancient system of guru-shishya parampara. On account of the old age of her guru and with his consent, she resumed her training under her father, Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty.

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Wonderfull Classical Song by Birju Maharaj. Excelent Performance by Saswati Sen. This song is from Shatranj ke Khilari directed by Satyajit Ray. www.imdb.com

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A precious thumri by ustad amanat ali khan and ustad fateh ali khan.. I found this recording from Syed Pir Zaman Shah's Music library. My special thanks to Syed Pir shahazad shah who provided me such a great collection of his grand father.

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Thumri on Raag Desh by the intoxicating voice of Ustad Rashid Khan

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Vilayat Khan (sitar), Bismillah Khan (shehnai) and Shanta Prasad (tabla) in a Thumri in raga Bhairavi -- a most remarkable recording made around 1960. It is the full recording, not cut, as some other recordings are. Rhythm: Tintal (16 beats--see below).

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Kamal Amrohi's Pakeezah represents one of Indian cinema's shimmering musical milestones. It was the composer Ghulam Mohamed's final score. Playback queen Lata Mangeshkar was the voice of the courtesan Sahib Jaan, played by tragedienne Meena Kumari, who incidentally passed away shortly after the film's release, resulting in scores of film-goers flocking to cinema theatres as if to pay obeisance at her mazaar, according to the late actress, Nadira. Naushad has provided this film with a background score that is much less feted but includes some exquisite thumri numbers and ghazals by singers like Rajkumari, Vani Jairam, Begum Parveen Sultana and Naseem Bano Chopra. In some scenes, like when Sahib Jaan visits her childhood friend Bibban (Vijay Laxmi), Kamal Amrohi weaves in some brilliant thumri melodies as some kind of intricate ambient sound... some of which can be heard in the video below. Have a look, and listen hard. There are many riffs that seem to waft in from the neighboring kothas, and maybe a more enterprising viewer can help us identify every lost melody. Read on at www.filmimpressions.com / tinyurl.com

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Mahesh Kale live at the Melange concert in San Francisco Bay Area on 21st Feb 2009. Tabla: Salar Nader; Violin: Pt. Ramakant Paranjape; Harmonium: Vivek Datar Mahesh Kale is a disciple of Pt. Jitendra Abhisheki. For more info about the artist, visit www.maheshkale.com

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Wonderful music by Hariprasad Chaurasia. Raga Pahadi in thumri style. Played on the bansuri (bamboo flute). Accompanied by tabla.

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Performer - Neelima Jha, Private Thumri, Raag Khamaj, Original Singer - Prabha Atrey, Kala Ankur's raag based program RAAG RANG at Seth Bhag Chand Ji Ki Kothi, Ajmer.

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Indian dance group MAYURI - Thumri - Tarana A lyrical song written by Bindadin Maharaj, dedicated to Krishna."Look, girls, Krishna is walking down the road. He has clutched a shepherdess's wrist and is not letting her go. Me too,I went to fetch some water one day, and the naughty Krishna sneaked up behind me and pulled my veil. Hey, hold him, don't let him go. Let's dress him up as a girl today. Let's put a nathni on his nose, plait his hair, put a saree and bangles on him, and everybody is going to laugh and say: "What a beautiful girl!" Thumri, Bindadin Maharaj,Yesudas, bhajan, Krishna, gopi, devotional Tarana, kathak, music from payal ki jhankar

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Kanha Thumri from Movie Veer Pavan udha ve batiyan ho batiyan Pavan udha ve batiyan Tipo pena likho chithiyan ho chithiyan Tipo bina likho chithiyan Chithiyon ke sardeshe videsh se jaavengi chalengi chathiyan Chithiyon ke sardeshe videsh se jaavengi chalengi chathiyan Kanhaaaa aaa .. bairun hui bansuri Ho kanhaaa aaa aaa .. tere adhar kyun lagi Aang se lagey to bol sunave Bhaiye na moh lagey kanha Din to katta, saanj kattey Kaise kattey ratiyaaa Pavan udha ve batiyan ho batiyan Pavan udha ve batiyan Tipo pena likho chithiyan ho chithiyan Tipo bina likho chithiyan Chithiyon ke sardeshe videsh se jaavengi chalengi chathiyan Chithiyon ke sardeshe videsh se jaavengi chalengi chathiyan Gum ko koi roko din ka dola roko koi doobe Koi to bacha le re Maathey likhe hamare, kaare aandhi aaye re, koi aawe Koi to mitawe re Saare banhe ke vadi gori areh na pareh Mere pairon mein padi rasiya Kanhaaa aaa .. tere hi rang mein ranggi Ho kanha aaaa aaa aaa .. saanj ki chav saawari Sanj chave jab, sanj liptave Lajja kare baavri Kuch na kahe Apne aap se Aapi karein batiyan Gin ke raah ye Heeeyyy Le gaya surajjj Chod gaya kash re .. Heyyy. kanha .. kanhaaaa kanhaa. Kanhaaaa aaa aaaa.. Kanha. Kanhaaa kanhaa.

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Kaushiki Chakrabarty born 1980 is a prominent Indian classical vocalist. Kaushiki was born 1980 in Kolkata, India. She is the daughter of Chandana Chakraborty and the renowned Indian classical singer Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty. At age seven, she started learning Indian classical music at the academy of Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, joining later ITC Sangeet Research Academy. In 2002, she graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata with a first degree in philosophy. Kaushiki has participated in many major concerts, including the Dover Lane Music Conference, the ITC Sangeet Sammelan in India, the Spring Festival of Music (California), and Parampara Program (Los Angeles). She is married to Partha Desikan. The song was created, sung and made famous by Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. This is a recording of Kaushiki's concert in the Royal Tropical Institute of Amsterdam, on April 15th, 2007. On tabla: Subhashish Bhattacharjee ; on harmonium: Vyasmurti Anandteerth Katti ; on tanpura: Julia Ohrmann.

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Vocalist- Ms.Koyel Dasgupta webpage- www.koyeldasgupta.com Tabla- Shri Prangopal Bandopadhya Venue - Ranchi , India. Organisation- Gharawa . email id - koyel.music@gmail.com

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Vocal : Shrimati Shobha Gurtu, Sarangi : Ustad Sultan Khan, Tabla : Ustad Nizamuddin Khan

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Thumri in Raag Mishra Pilu by Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty. Ajoy Chakrabarty was born in Bengal to Ajit Chakrabarty in a Hindu Brahmin family. They moved to India from his homeland, Bangladesh during the partition and raised his two sons in Shyamnagar. His younger brother, Sanjay Chakrabarty is a noted composer and music therapist. His daughter, Kaushiki Chakrabarty is also an upcoming talent of Hindusthani classical music. Chakrabarty was a disciple of Ustad Munawar Ali Khan. He is also a first class graduate from the Rabindra Bharati University. Chakrabarty showed extraordinary promise in vocal music and at the tender age of three, began taking lessons from his father Ajit Chakrabarty. He then learnt from Pannalal Samanta and Kanai Das Bairagi and later became a student of Padma Bhushan Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh. In 1969, his training took a decisive turn as he became a disciple of Ustad Munawar Ali Khan, son of the legendary maestro of the Patiala-Kasur gharana (school), Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. He is notable for imagination and sensitivity to lyrics, coupled with his uncanny sense of rhythm.

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Eminent sitar maestro of Imdadkhani Gharana Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee plays Thumri in Raag Mishra Piloo set to Teen Taal. Shubhankar Bannerjee accompanying him on Tabla.

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Amanat Ali performs a Thumri in Raag Piloo at the 10th LMF concert on 27th December 2011. Amanat is the son of the distinguished Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan. Accompanying him on the tabla is Sajid Ali on the tabla, Aamir Bashir on the harmonium and Nazeer Ahmad on the tanpura.

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vidushi ashwini bhide deshpande gave a concert in bangalore on 25th feb 2011 as part of alapan- alochan programme of sursagar bangalore.it was an absolutely beautiful treat for the music lovers of bangalore.this was part of that concert.pt.udayaraj karpur on tabla and pt.vyasamurthy katti on harmonium provided able support.nishad an upcoming singer provided vocal support.videographed live by purnabhat

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Extract from a thumri recital by Girija Devi. From the archives of the Asian Music Circuit - find out more at www.amc.org.uk

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AKHTAR AND ZAKIR ALI KHAN YOUNGER BROTHERS OF SALAMAT NAZAKAT ALI KHAN SINGING A THUMRI IN RAAG PILU.

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A melodic punjabi and sindhi bhairavi! "Sagari rain mori tarpat beeti, bhor bhaye preetam aaye"! Kya shikwa hai! Kya kehnay!

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An extract from a thumri vocal performance by Shobha Gurtu, taken from the archives of the Asian Music Circuit. Find out more at www.amc.org.uk

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www.facebook.com Today (April 25) is the 43rd death anniversary of Legendary Ustad Barre Gulam Ali KhanSaheb. ---------- =Live Concerts= The experience of attending a live concert of Indian classical music cannot be compared with any other musical experience. The accolades, the loud Wah Wahs, shouts of Kya Baat Hai may alarm a westerner who is attending an Indian concert for the first time. What lack of etiquette and shameful behavior of the audience, he may think. The travel to India guide book was true after all. Indians are really a noisy and uneducated bunch of natives. Disturbing or interrupting an artist's live performance (of classical nature) may not seem to be a proper thing to a western eye. But classical music of India thrives on such 'noise'. No Wah Wahs, no Kya Baat Hai, and the concert may be safely termed as a flop show. This is especially true if the performer is a vocalist. Enjoy the live concerts posted above of a Great Peerless Maestro. "NO WORDS CAN DESCRIBE THE BEAUTY OF THIS HEAVENLY THUMRI.THE PUNJAB STYLE TABLA IS NO LESS A "QIAMAT" (MOST PROBABLY USTAD INAYATI KHAN D/O MIAN QADIR BAKSH PAKHAWAJI) HERE ONE CAN SEE WHAT BGAK WAS CAPABLE OF.SIZZLING HOT TRACK....DEDICATED TO DR.KASHYAP DAVE." (Comment from Dr Ashfaq Ali Khan from Lahore) ---------- for Brief intro of Great Ustad, plz click here www.facebook.com ----------

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Bharat Ratna Pandit BHIMSEN JOSHI. Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (Kannada : ಪಂಡಿತ ಭೀಮಸೇನ ಗುರುರಾಜ ಜೋಷಿ. Marathi: पंडित भीमसेन जोशी is one of the most popular and respected names in contemporary music. Familiar even to the musically illiterate, Bhimsen Joshi is noted for his extraordinarily rich and sonorous voice and has been ruling the musical world for over four decades. Bhimsen is a versatile singer; he is an expert in khayal singing but he is also adept in the presentation of thumris, songs from plays, or devotional compositions. His lilting thumris (Jadu bhareli, Piya ke milan ki aas or Babul mora) and his innumerable popular Abhangs composed by the saints of Maharashtra are instances in point. He was born in 1922 into a Brahmin family in Gadag, Karnataka. At the age of 11, against his father wishes, Bhimsen Joshi ran away from home to learn music. A few years of his youth were thus spent in the company of well known musicians at Gwalior, Lucknow and Rampur, serving them and learning as much as he could from them. However, soon realising that Bhimsen was extremely talented, his father arranged for the child to be taught music under the guidance of Rambhau Kundgolkar, popularly known as Sawai Gandharva, a pupil of Abdul Karim Khan. Thus began Bhimsen's succesful journey in the world of music. He made his debut in 1946, singing at his guru's birthday. Bhimsen Joshi has the ability to make his voice do almost anything he wants, be it a <b>...</b>

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Effulgent brothers giving a tremendous performance, a very rare audio. More naina lagay ge barsaat..!

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SwarBhaskar VishawaRatna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. ( 4th Feb 1922 - 24th Jan 2011 ) It was an awe-inspiring fusion of intelligence and passion that perhaps separated Panditji from other classical vocalists who dogmatically stuck to their ''Gharana'' culture with a rigidity that possibly inhibited creativity. Born on February 4, 1922 at Gadag in Dharwad district of Karnataka, his journey to the stardom in the world of Hindustani music was just as dramatic as it was arduous for one who decided to run away from home at a tender age of 11, in quest of finding a ''Guru'' to learn music.

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European plays sitar in the Indian National Televison. Tóth Szabi (Hungary), a disciple of Pt. Rajeev Janardan plays Bhairavi thumri and a short, drut (fast) Raga Bhairav with Pandit Vinode Pathak on tabla, in the Subah Savere ('Morning Morning') program of Indian Television in december, 2006. Between the two ragas a short interview in Hindi. More about Toth Szabi: india.tilos.hu

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Sandhya started her music training under the direction of Pandit Santosh Kumar Basu, Professor AT Kannan and Professor Chinmoy Lahiri. However, her guru was Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan under whom she mastered Indian classical music. Though classically trained, the bulk of her work consists of Bengali modern songs. She began her career in Mumbai singing Hindi songs, starting with a song in the film Anjan Garh at the age of 17. Following her marriage to the Bengali poet Shyamal Gupta she settled in her home city of Kolkata. Gupta went on to write the lyrics for many of her songs. Her best known collaboration is arguably with the Bengali singer Hemanta Mukherjee with whom she sang numerous duets, primarily as playback for Bengali films produced from Kolkata. Hemanta and Sandhya became known as the voices behind the pairings of the Bengali superstar Uttam Kumar and his numerous heroines, most notably being the actress Suchitra Sen, whose singing voice she became. Besides Hemanta Mukherjee's compositions, her largest body of work is with Robin Chattopadhyay and Nachiketa Ghosh. She has also sung notable songs under Salil Chowdhury and Sudhin Dasgupta's baton. During the Bangladesh Liberation War she joined the mass movement among Indian Bengali artistes to raise money for the millions of refugees who had poured into Kolkata and West Bengal to escape the fighting, and to raise global awareness for the cause of Bangladesh. She assisted Bangladeshi musician Samar Das as he set up <b>...</b>

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A Thumri by my mother Jaheda Begum and her student Khushi Dave. My cousin Monir Hossain Shanai playing tabla. This is from the annual program by students of Jaheda Begum, November 2008.

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David Philipson performs a Thumri in Raga Mishra Piloo on bansuri (North Indian bamboo flute). Abhiman Kaushal accompanies on tabla. This thumri was a favorite of Pt. Pannalal Ghosh, and is a humble tribute to Pannbabuji. The performance was for The Music Circle, Herrick Chapel, Occidental College in Los Angeles - 1.25.97 This Part 1 of 2. please visit music.calarts.edu for more info. © David Philipson 2009

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Acknowledged as the scion of the Gwalior musical gharana, Meeta Pandit has emerged as a shining star in the world of classical music. Meeta is grand-daughter and disciple of Padma Bhushan Pt Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit, the doyen of Northern Indian Classical music in the 20th century, and the daughter and disciple of legendary Pt LK Pandit. Meeta is the sixth of the unbroken Pandit line and has the unique distinction of being the first woman musician in the family. Her melodious and robust voice coupled with intricate handling of ragas has won her critical acclaim, and a following of music lovers. Meeta's voice is unique-deep, rich and penetrating with tremendous power, stretching over an amazingly wide range of over 3 octaves. The rendering of traditional, but increasingly rare, Tappa is one of the sublime offerings in her concerts. Besides the styles of Khayal and Tappa, Meeta is equally adept with genres of Tarana, Bhajan, Thumri, Sufi, as well as cross cultural music.

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I have been getting many warnings from the youtube, please visit my other site HameshaJawanGeet if my this account is suspended. Thanks. Gauhar Jaan (1873 -1930) was an Indian singer and dancer from Calcutta. She was one of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India. Gauhar Jaan was born as Angelina Yeoward in 1873 in Patna, to William Robert Yeoward, an Armenian Jew working as an engineer in dry ice factory at Azamgarh, near Banaras, who married a Jewish Armenian lady, Allen Victoria Hemming around 1870. Victoria was born and brought up in India, and trained in music and dance. Within a few years in 1879, the marriage ended, causing hardships to both mother and daughter, who later migrated to Banaras in 1881, with a Muslim nobleman, 'Khursheed', who appreciated Victoria's music more than her husband. Later, Victoria, converted to Islam and changed Angelina's name to 'Gauhar Jaan' and hers to 'Malka Jaan' A major milestone in the history of Indian music occurred in 1902. It was in this year that Gauhar Jan was asked by the "Gramophone Company" to record a series of songs for them. This corpus of recordings became a cornerstone for their business for many years. She was paid 3000 rupees per recording, which was considered a lot of money in those days. As it turned out, the historical value of these recordings would be priceless. From 1902 to 1920 she recorded over 600 songs in more than 10 languages. She became India' s first "recording star", who <b>...</b>

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