ILYAS KHAN | Raga Brindabani Sarang (1981)

Ustad Ilyas Khan - Sitar Ram Dhrube - Tabla Recording date: 25.03.1981 Sitarya Ustad Ilyas Khan (1924-1989) -second son of the legendary sarod maestro Ustad Sakhawat Hussain Khan (1875-1955) of Lucknow-Shahjahanpur 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 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) Ram Dhrube was a staff artist at AIR Lucknow. Recording and Ilyas Khan picture taken from the archive of Ustad Irfan MD Khan. Follow this link for more information on the artist and his lineage: https://matyasitar.de/musician/ilyas-... More recordings of Ilyas Khan from our channel:    • ILYAS KHAN