Khan: Masterpieces for Sarod and Violin / Khan

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Label
Affetto Records
Release Date
July 2, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      KHAN, AMJAD ALI
    • PERFORMER
      Khan, Darvarova, Bangash, Chatterjee, Bose
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 02, 2021
    • UPC
      195269087913
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AF2101
    • LABEL
      Affetto Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Singing Angels

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee

    2. Raga Khammaj (Rivers of Bliss)

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee

    3. Midnight Tenderness (based on Raga Tilak Kamod)

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee

    4. Raga Kirwani (Temple of Hope)

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee

    5. Gentle Sunset (based on Raga Marwa)

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee

    6. By the Moon

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee

    7. Raga Pilu (Romancing Earth)

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee

    8. The Brightest of Stars (based on Raga Durga)

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee

    9. Love Avalanche

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee

    10. Peaceful Morning (based on Raga Bhairavi)

      Composer: Amjad Ali Khan

      Performer: Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Anubrata Chatterjee


This double-album presents Amjad Ali Khan’s compositions for Sarod and Violin as a collection comprising the works previously premiered in three separate albums. The recordings included in this collection represent the culmination of a collaboration that came about through a serendipitous meeting of the artists in 2014 – Amjad Ali Khan, the Titan of the sarod, straddling two centuries, universally venerated as one of the greatest living Indian musicians in any genre; his sons, disciples and widely acclaimed sarod virtuosi in their own right, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash; and the distinguished American violinist Elmira Darvarova, herself a historical figure as the first ever (and so far only) woman-concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York. The first fruit of these artists’ unique joining of forces was their album, SOUL STRINGS, a bridge across which their respective traditions, coming from Indian Classical and Western Art Music genres, were generously shared, each with its expressive and technical integrity intact, rather than squeezed into that oft-used and abused notion of “fusion.” What that first album suggested subtly, about this daring, supercharged, yet profoundly respectful and even affectionate meeting of musical minds, was later brilliantly confirmed by their second album AMALGAM, which included the inimitable sound of the universally beloved and venerated elder statesman of Indian Classical Music today – Amjad Ali Khan. Drawing on the North and South Indian classical music idioms, AMALGAM not only featured new works but also explored new aesthetic and rhetorical terrain both in terms of the intimate level of phrase and note, as well as at the larger architectonic and structural aspects of the music. The artists offered their third album PEACE WORSHIPERS as a final volume of their trilogy, again with new compositions for Sarod and Violin by Amjad Ali Khan.