ILYAS KHAN | Raga Chayanat (1956)

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Ustad Ilyas Khan - Sitar
Pandit Shamta Prasad - Tabla
Recorded in 1956 at the Constitution Club/Delhi
This is the earliest surviving recording of the great Ustad that allows us a fascinating glimpse into his prime years. 98% of his recorded material in the archives of his nephew and shagird Ustad Irfan Khan Sahib stems from the final decade of Ilyas Khansahebs life. This Chayanat along with Kafi Thumri has been released earlier in CD format by Sangeet Natak Akademi but with a wrong pitch & speed. This is a corrected version with a pitch around the Ustads usual C-sharp.
Sitarya Ustad Ilyas Khan (1924-1989) -second son of the legendary sarod maestro Ustad Sakhawat Hussain Khan (1875-1955) of Lucknow-Shajahanpur Gharana was a phenomenal musician with a huge repertoire of Ragas and old compositions. Most of his life he was teaching music at the Bhatkhande College in Lucknow and lived a simple life devoted to music.
"Ilyas Khan was roughly a contemporary of Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan and Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan. Yet few listeners today have heard of him, let alone his recorded music. He added to his gharana’s knowledge bank by studying, in addition to his family’s repertoire, more gats and dhrupads from the sitar gharana of Kalpi, near Lucknow. His non-family teachers had been the ustads Abdul Ghani Khan, a dhrupad singer, and Yusuf Ali Khan, a sitarist and sitar maker (also the original designer of the kharaj-pancham sitar that is today synonymous with Ravi Shankar)." (quoted from Arnab Chakrabarty´s article in scroll.in)
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[@Vajira-l3u]

My Teacher Mrs Nirmala Kumari in Sri Lanka, a student of Ustad Ilyas Khan, mentioned that Chayanat was Ustadji's favorite raga. Really beautiful!

[@lucknow-shahjahanpur-ghara7790]

Thanks for chiming in. Yes Ustadji mentioned about that, another favorite of his was alhaiya bilawal. Please convey my regards to Ms. Kumari. If she has any recordings and/or photo/videos of her Ustad we would be glad if you would share with us and our archive. Please get in touch with me ([e-mail]) or Ustad Irfan Khan. Kind regards, Matyas Wolter

[@unity1206]

Very nice , collection. Our pride of Indian classical music . Great . Keep uploading this type of rare collection. Many thanks.

[@govindarajulu-kasturi9614]

Beautiful
Thanks

[@nihalhakim5148]

Thank you for uploading this, especially in a pitch and speed corrected format

[@vijayendrarao8729]

This is extraordinarily beautiful. Reveals dimensions of the raga that I have not heard before.

[@MrAbhisheksitar]

Thank you for uploading such a precious piece of Music.. A true gem of Indian Classical music

[@praja343]

Ilyas Khan Saheb has a unique approach. Just when I think he will go one way with the raga, he does something wonderful and completely different. Some of the taans have a Carnatic flavor to them. Thanks for posting these treasures.

[@vishaldesai4657]

Beautiful playing

[@vidyottamaarya3414]

Grand Ustadji shat shat Naman, aaj apka baaz sunkar hridai ke taar jhankrat ho gye🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@RamKrishnaent29]

This is a published recording by lalit kala academy Delhi, i bought 15 years back in a cd thanks for uploading

[@lucknow-shahjahanpur-ghara7790]

It was published as a CD by Sangeet Natak Academy Delhi. But with a wrong speed & pitch. We corrected it.

[@manasmaisnam606]

Pt. Samta Prasad on tabla is awesome!!

[@jigggro]

Thank you. Greatness and popularity don’t always come together. This is an example.

[@lucknow-shahjahanpur-ghara7790]

Very well put!

[@r.c.g8272]

This is priceless. Thank you so much

[@AnirbanBanerjeeTheSarodGharana]

Great !!!

[@urmilaapte9853]

🎵👏🎼👍🎶🕉️😔🙏🏾🕉️🎵

[@RamprapannaBhattacharya_Sitar]

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