Ustad Asad Ali Khan - Raga Miyan Ki Malhar - Rudra Veena - Rudra Vina - Gopal Das Panse - Pakhawaj

I’m continuing the serial of video recordings with concerts, interviews and talks of Khansahib from different sources . Like with the other recordings I’m trying to offer the most complete and technical optimal version of it. Besides providing some background information and comments. This recording of Raga Miyan ki Malhar is the first half of a Rudra Veena concert organized by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR ) on 2nd August 1989 in the FICCI Auditorium Delhi. While Khansahib choose for the beginning appropriate to the season this unparallelled monsoon Raga he finished the concert with a memorable version of Raga Desh which I had published already a few month ago. Enjoy the special fortitude of the Veena while Ustadji explores the shades of the different Nishads in long Meends awakening the mood of a densely covered sky with heavy clouds and the long awaited pouring of rain. A development that seems to reflect itself in the slow taking off in the Alaap and Jor just to finish with an unbelievable intense Thok Jhala filled with hailing down strokes of the right hand. Khansahib is accompanied on Pakhawaj by Pandit Gopal Das Panse one of the finest Pakhawaj maestros from the Nana Panse Gharana who used to play already with Ustad Sadiq Ali Khan before becoming Khansahibs permanent accompanist for many decades. Even at an advanced age Panditji proofs his almost unmatched refined sense of accompaniment for the Been.