Painting of Swami Haridas teaching Miyan Tansen in the presence of Emperor Akbar.
Here some
more recordings from the Dhrupad-Mela in Vrindaban, recorded by Peter
Pannke in 1982 on behalf of WDR, the West German Broadcasting in
Cologne. Peter Pannke made 7 broadcasts out of these recordings:
Dhrupad-Mela
Vrindaban · 7 Folgen · WDR 1982
Dhrupadas aus
Darbhanga
Dhrupadas aus
Braj
Asghari Bai -
Die letzte der Baijis
Pakhawaj -
Die Trommel mit dem satten Klang
Bhutji - Der
singende Dämon
Holi - Das
Fest der Farben
Der
gestohlene Ring - Ein traditionelles Musikdrama
The first program we had already posted recently under the title "Nicht einmal Gott steht höher als der Klang". As I don't have recordings of the complete broadcasts with the announcements and comments I don't know from which ones the recordings of this post stem. Only the recordings of one of the singers, Kundanlal Sharma, seem to be from the broadcast "Bhutji - Der singende Dämon".
The origin of
Dhrupad are the temples, before it turned into court music. But there
was always a Dhrupad tradition which stayed in the temples. Here we
have recordings from three different of these traditions:
1. Kundanlal
Sharma "Bhutji" (Bhootji) (tracks 1 to 4) was, according to a recent talk to Peter
Pannke, a leading senior temple Dhrupad singer from Punjab.
2. The
Caturvedis (tracks 5 & 6), popularly known also as Caube, are
representing an old form of Dhrupad sung in certain temples in
Marutha and Vrindaban, belonging to the Mathura Gharana of Dhrupad.
Our two artists of this tradition, Lakshman Caturvedi (Caube)
and Balaji Caturvedi (Caube) have been in the 1980s eminent
artists of this tradition.
See
here on this tradition some excerpts from "Sonic
Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition" by Guy L.
Beck:
3. Swami
Shriramji Sharma (track 7) was the director of the Krishna Ras Leela Mandal troupe in Vrindaban in the early 1980s and, according to Peter
Pannke, had some knowledge of Dhrupad, probably of a tradition similar (if not
the same) as the Caturvedis, and performed it on the Dhrupad Mela.
We received these recordings from our friend KF. Many thanks for the sharing.
