mahA gaNapatim sung in beautiful Hindusthani style

[Prabhakar Chitrapu]

Dear Music Friends

I just finished watching a video of bhajans by Swami Kripakarananda  of Ramakrishna/Vivekananda's Belur Math. 

The bhajans were sung in classical Hindusthani style and they made such an impression on me that I wanted to share it with my friends & family. 

In particular, please listen to the first song (about 11 mins long) - it is Dikshitar's mahA ganapathim in rAga nAta, but sung in the Hindusthani style (rAga jOg). I found it delightfully enjoyable....Plese share what your thoughts were!

Best Regards

Prabhakar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nynCE2nSa4 

 

Mesmerizing rendition

Music driven by bhakti - has that non-egoistic beauty

 

Song 1: Dikshitar's mahA gaNapatim in rAga nATa (he says it is Suddha nATa), which is rAga jOg in Hindusthani

Although ri is an important note in nATa rAga, he does not 'say' it in his svara kalpanas. He does 'sing' it , but 'says' it as ga.

 

Sing 2: beautiful bowLi

 

Song 3: apparently composed and set to music by vivEkAnanda himself. rAga darbAri kAnaDa.

Hara hara bhUtanAtha . Mesmerizing rendition

 

Song 4: Bhajan that apparently Ramakrishna used to ask vivEkAnanda to sing often and which vivEkAnanda used to sing. rAga: Yaman (kalyANi in Carnatic)

 

Song 5: rAga bhairavi (sindu bhairavi in Carnatic). jO bhajE hari kO sadA

 

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Best Regards
Prabhakar
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[Kiranavali Vidyasankar]

Just heard the Mahaganapatim. Very interesting!

The reason he sings the Ri as Ga is that no other classical music has 16 names for the 12 notes in the octave, with 4 overlapping notes. We are the only ones to have a 'third' variety of Ri and Da, or a 'first' variety of Ga and Ni for that matter. So in Hindustani music, the Ri3 will get treated as a Ga2 (the note with which it overlaps). But this also means that he is ignoring the presence of the actual Ga and Ni in raga Nattai that we sing. Violin virtuoso L. Shankar has named this scale as Savitri - do listen to his masterful rendition of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfJDzHqjhGA

Kiranavali

www.kiranavali.net

www.carnatictradition.com

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