Rich Osborn Ali Akbar definitely has that endearing quality to his music. But even his life, his singular dedication to cause of music is so very exemplary. if nothing else, that is so inspirational.

Yes good music has that ability. Shahid Parvez had a similar effect on me during my university days.

Same with me sir, and l have probably recorded this raga at diff.places.and that too 8 to 10 times.But may few have survived still still some might have survived.But I can't upload as all are still in cassette.Sorry.Will try if I can .

Even Mr.Rich it saved my life.Those years Ustadji was playing this one many places.I was mentally physically.disturbed ,even CNS breakdown.But oh my God I this along with few other gems really took me out of the blackhole.Diivine.Divinity in real action.Sorry to be so emotional.Let the music divine lead us towards divinity.

Please do Vipasssana medidation

THANKS FOR TELLING US THE TABLA IS BY MAHAPURISH MISHRA .. .. .... I WAS THINKING SHANKAR GHOSH .. . . CHANDRANANDAN WAS COMPOSED ON A. FULL MOON NIGHT .. .... THE NAME WAS GIVEN TO THIS RAGA AFTER IT WAS COMPOSED ON HMV 'S PRODUCER' S REQUEST TO KHAN SAHIB TO PLAY "SOMETHING NEVER HEARD OF" .... ... AND IT WAS CREATED .. ... INCIDENTALLY A FULLLLLLL MOON NIGHT .. .... HENCE NAMED CHANDRANANDAN LITERALLY MEANING "GIFT OF MOON" 🌕 🎁

I concur EXACTLY

How true! I bought all the records by him that I could get hold of in the 1960s and 70s. And I was fortunate to listen to him in a concert. Why on Earth is he not known all over the world?

I roadied for him in the early 1970s in the UK. After the gigs we used to sit and have a peg or two and chat about music. Very nice simple modest man.

I know it is pretty off topic but do anyone know of a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?

@Deshawn Ameer I watch on Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)

Not Pt.Swapan Chowdhury , it's Pt.Mahapurush Misra who played the Tabla here .

it was a live recording

Heard it for the first time in a record store on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, NYC, probably summer of 1967. Never gotten over it.

While Ali Akbar Khan was undoubtly a maestro, no question about it. Hazra you seem like a novice in music when you dismiss other great sarodists who have their own strong points. There is no such a thing as the "greatest" or " best" in music as there are no quantifible ways to measure such. This is not sports. So instead of comparing just enjoy the music of your favorite sarod player

It's true that other great sarod players have their own strong points ! But even other great sarod players have admitted the fact that Ustad Ali Akbar khan sahab was undoubtedly the musician's musician ! He and Vilayat khan sahab were extraordinarily different from others !!!

@@ami9433480965 Every musician is different from one another! Vilayat khan was great in his own way just the way Nikhil Banerjee, Balram Pathak, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, and Ravi Shankar were great in their own way! Just the way Bahadur Khan, Vasant Rai, Radhubabu and Ali Akbar Khan are equally great. All of these musicians had different goals and looked at the music in a different way. To say one is "better then the other" is inane and immature

I agree, Uday. And believe that I *must* have had a recording of it (which must have been on the Connoisseur Society label) which did, indeed, have an Alap. But, where is it on uTube?

Ahhh... Here is another performance of this rag by the Master, complete with Alap: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lb-gmdmh2Nmbqpc.html

That's the HMV/RPG recording you're talking about.But this is a different recording of the same Raag.If you listen this tabla accompaniment minutely you'd find that its a pure Benaras Baj played by Pt. Mahapurush Mishra (disciple of great Pt.Anokhelal Mishra) .OTOH, Shashiji played quite differently.

@@sambapbiswas7140 thank you for correcting me. high regards to you , for your deep knowledge.

@@sambapbiswas7140 yeah right

Pandit Mahapurush Mishra

It's pandit mahapurush mishra

Not at all....it is Sashi Belary

Where? can you cite sources please. I'd like to learn more about this

In the early 80s a Hindu colleague of mine told me this. He knew that I love Ravi Shankar and sitar music. He said it was found in a temple near a big city on the Ganges where they have a big party once every 12 years. Showed me pictures of this temple as well, and told me about other wonderous things like the vimanas and ancient technology. We know that Sanskrit is the oldest language, about 10,000 years old, which would be after the global cataclysms that happened about 11,500 years ago with the melting of the ice caps, and the end of the ice age, caused by global asteroid impacts. The fact that Hindu culture, Sumerian culture, and Egyptian culture all popped up seemingly out of nowhere already fully evolved shows that these cultures were "rebooted" from much earlier ones from a remnant that survived the cataclysmic floods. So when my Hindu friend told me of this, way back then I completely believed it because he himself had a doctorate in biology and he knew people in academia who had researched this particular temple (I don't remember the name of the temple or the city, it was so long ago that he told me this and I have since lost contact with him after having moved out of the USA in 1991). He was from Gujarat by the way, and I considered him to be of high intelligence.

@@SunRabbit the name of the city is haridwar or allahabad

Swapan Chaudhary on tabla, it is shown in picture. This Raga Chandranandan is his own creation, Khan Saab.

Unique rendition, but tabla support provided by pt. Mahapurush Mishra, not p. Swapan Choudhary, as shown in the picture.