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Raga Kirwani - gat
This video features a performance of Hindustani classical music by internationally renowned UK-based esraj and tar shehnai player Kirpal Singh Panesar, accompanied on tabla by his elder brother Gurdit Singh Panesar.
The concert, held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in November 2021, was a rare opportunity to hear both the esraj and the tar shehnai, two musical instruments nowadays seldom played in Hindustani classical music, especially in Europe. The esraj is a long-necked bowed lute with a skin-covered wooden resonator and movable frets; most of its numerous strings resonate sympathetically, as only four are played to produce the melody. The tar shehnai is a an esraj on which a bell-shaped resonator (resembling a small gramophone speaker) is attached, producing the distinctive timbre, which evokes that of the shehnai, the best-known North Indian shawm (double-reed instrument). “Tar shehnai”, in fact, literally means “string shawm”.
Kirpal Singh Panesar’s training reflects his twofold musical talent: he studied both with the great shehnai master Ustad Bismillah Khan and with string virtuosos, such as Ustad Surjeet Singh and Ustad Gurdev Singh. Kirpal’s musical identity emerges from the combination of these experiences and can be admired in his ability to make the most of the expressive potential of his instruments and their ethereal sonorities.
This videoclip features Kirpal Singh Panesar on tar shehnai, performing a gat (an instrumental composition based on characteristic rhythmic and plucking patterns) in Raga Kirwani, a late evening raga, characterised by a heptatonic scale, with diminished third and sixth degrees. In this performance, the gat is set in the 16-beat meter tintal.
As customary in Hindustani classical music, this composition followed the alap (the introductory section of a raga performance) and is characterised by the presence of rhythmic accompaniment on percussion (in this case the tabla) and by an increasing musical complexity as the performers improvise on the composition, displaying their virtuosic skills.
The video presents two different moments of the performance of the gat. The first excerpt focuses on the very beginning, in which the first melodic idea is introduced; the second excerpt is taken from a later section of the performance, in which the technical dexterity of the artist is displayed through passages with high melodic and rhythmic density.
The performance, curated by Prof. Laura Leante, was organized by the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in collaboration with Durham University’s Music Department.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 24 November 2021
Video: Simone Tarsitani
More info on this event:
www.cini.it/en/events/meeting...
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