Bhupali by Kishori Amonkar

[kantid...@aol.com]

Kishori Amonkar has sung Bhopali in the following three CDs. Which one
would you recommend as her best?

35 minutes PSLP5130
30 min. PSLP5724
21 min. PSLP5816

Thank you.

Regards,

Kanti Dattani

[Archisman]

Kanti-bhai, I just know of two recordings. The studio recording which
has 'bageshwari' on the flip side of the LP and a recording of a live
programme in Delhi (which has a 'bhinna shadaj' on the flip side, I
think).

Which is the third one? Wold you be having some more details like the
year of release, etc.?

Thanks in advance.

For a choice between the two, I prefer the studio-recorded version.

On a related note, I had the good fortune of attending a recital of
hers at Rang Bhavan in Mumbai in mid-90's (just before the Municipal
Corporation stopped concerts at that lovely place) and her opening
presentation of bhoop-nat was just mind-blowing.

She seems extremely at ease with bhoop and related raags though I must
admit that in one of her concerts (at Sophia College at Bombay in
1994), her recital of 'bhoop' with extra-long 'meends' and the
'ati-vilambit' theka did tread on the toes of 'shuddh kalyan' quite
often.

Regards-Archisman.

[Samar]

I think her 21 min recording of Eree Aaj and Sahela re is the best
recording of Raga Bhoop ever.. I dont know about the other 2 recordings
because Ive got like 7 different renditions of Bhoop and many of them
are about the same time..

[Archisman]

It's definitely Kishori-tai's best. As for 'best ever' by any artist,
there could be some contenders (though hers will be right up there).
Paluskar's 'jab hi sab nirapat' and 'jab se tumi sang laagali' released
by CBS (an AIR release) is very good, So is Bade Ghulam Ali's vilambit,
drut (mahadev maheshwar) and tarana. (I cannot recall the vilambit
bandish).

In the 78 rpm domain, Narayanrao Vyas' 'sundhe bol', Zohrabai's tarana
and Jnanendraprasad Goswami's superb bengali raagpradhan - 'nandakula
chandra ananda dulaal' may deserve special mention.

Regards-Archisman.

[kantid...@aol.com]

Hello Archisman Bhai!

(If you call me Kanti Bhai, I am obliged to call you Archisman Bhai!)

Thank you for your most interesting comments. This would help me
enormously when I am addressing queries from other music lovers, who
ring me and contact me by emails. The details of the three CDs (which I
should have included in my first posting,sorry) are

PSLP 5130, Live at Nehru Centre Mumbai, CD released in 1989
Raga Bhoop, Prathama Sur Saadhe (29.41) and Jabse Tumeesana Laagalee
(5.07) &
Raga Bhinna Shadja, Ood Jaa Re Kaagaa and Anganaa More Aajaa (23.26)

PSLP5724, Live in Concert, recordings from The Music Festival For Rajiv
Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, January 1992, CD released in 1993
Raga Bhoop, Prathama Sur Saadhe (21.34) and Jabse Tumeesana Laagalee
and Tarana (8.24) &
Bhajan Jogiya Se Preet Kiya (13.35)

PSLP5816, Recreating a Dream, CD released in 1994
Raga Bhoop, Eree Aaj Bhailava Sukhva and Sahelare Aa Mil Gaye (21)
Raga Jaunpuri, Baje Jhananana and Chhum Chananana Bichhuva (18)
Raga Pat Bihag, Dhan Dhan Mangal Gavo (10.56)

Since you have mentioned Bhoop by other vocalists, I am listing all
others that I have. These are not necessarily recommended (some of them
I haven't played for years)

Ajoy Chakrabarty 54 NRCD030
Asha Bhosle and Ali Akbar Khan 4 AMMP7216
Balamurali Krishna and Hariprasad Chaurasia 65 NRCD041
Dilshad Khan 5 B6748
Ghulam Mustafa Khan 9 D4HV2918
Girija Devi 13 C4HV0065
Gundecha Brothers 30 CDNF150160
Kishori and Hariprasad Chaurasia 72 CDNF150183
Laxmi Shankar 52 ACCD1052 & 7 B6745
Munawar Ali Khan 12 ACCD1003
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 10 NRCD017
Padma Talwalkar 17 A94026
Prabhakar Karekar 52 A97017
Salamat Ali Khan and Sons 24 WLA18

For further details of these CDs, please write.

Those who are also interested in instrumental Bhoop, I have the
following

Amjad Ali Khan and Lalgudi Jayaraman 28 PSLP1491
Bapat & Narayan Mani 7 D4HI2310
Bismillah Khan 17 PSLP5273
Datar DK 20 MCD137
Deepak Ram 37 BHA108
Gaurav Majumdar 7 GZ00012
Gianni Ricchizzi (Italian) 19 NI5431
Gopal Krishnan and Sultan Khan 67 NRCD065
Hariprasad Chaurasia 12 PSLP1490 - 31 A91008 - 30 DXL 230153 - 71
KICC5172
Hariprasad and Shivkumar Sharma 70 NRCD067
Irshad Khan 23 NAXOS 76001-2
Kadri Gopalnath and Wadwati 24 C5CI5036
Nancy Leash 26 IAM1033
Nikhil Banerjee 29 SN70702
Rakesh Chaurasia 74 SR087
Ronu Majumdar and Tarun Bhattacharya 30 D4HI270
Sachdev SC 21 LYR7405
Shivkumar Sharma 74 NRCD012 and 64 BMG50691
Shivkumar Hariprasad and Kabra 7 PSLP5002
Sultan Khan 54 MRCD1006
Ulhas Bapat 30 DXL230153

Thank you Samar Bhai for your comments as well.

Kind Regards,

Kanti Dattani

[Sanjeev Ramabhadran]

Archisman wrote:
>> It's definitely Kishori-tai's best. As for 'best ever' by any artist,
> there could be some contenders (though hers will be right up there).
> Paluskar's 'jab hi sab nirapat' and 'jab se tumi sang laagali' released
> by CBS (an AIR release) is very good, So is Bade Ghulam Ali's vilambit,
> drut (mahadev maheshwar) and tarana. (I cannot recall the vilambit
> bandish).

It's "Prabhu Rang Bheena".

Sanjeev

[Archisman]

Sanjeev Ramabhadran wrote:

> Archisman wrote:
> >> So is Bade Ghulam Ali's vilambit,
> > drut (mahadev maheshwar) and tarana. (I cannot recall the vilambit
> > bandish).
>
> It's "Prabhu Rang Bheena".
>
> Sanjeev

Thanks, Sanjeev. You just do not seem to miss out on ANY bandish that
gets discussed in RMIC. It's really remarkable.

Regards-Archisman