Hirabai Barodekar (1905-1989) & Saraswati Rane (1913-2006) - Recent broadcasts on Raagam

Hirabai Barodekar

Here some boadcasts by Hirabai Barodekar on Raagam, the internet radio of All India Radio, which broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week classical Indian music.

See:

http://www.airbengaluru.com/cue-sheets/raagam-2/

http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx 

Select there Raagam.

1. Hirabai Barodekar - Alhaiya Bilawal & Ramkali
The Raga Ramkali here seems to be the same recording as the one 
on the LP we posted in 2012, but here it is longer and complete.

2. Hirabai Barodekar - Multani & Marwa

3. Hirabai Barodekar - Jaijaiwanti

4. Hirabai Barodekar - Abhogi

An Indian friend based in the US just send me two recordings of Thumries he had recorded from Raagam. Many thanks to him. Here they are:

Hirabai Barodekar - Jogia Thumri
Hirabai Barodekar - Bhairavi Thumri

Saraswati Rane

And here the only recording by Saraswati Rane broadcast by Raagam, as far as we know:

Saraswathi Rane - Yaman - Vilambit - Ek Taal & Drut - Teen Taal

As these recordings were broadcast in mp3 format we post them here also only in mp3 format. They were broadcast in 2017 and June and July 2018.

Hirabai Barodekar (1905-1989) & Saraswati Rane (1913-2006) - Jugalbandi 2 - LP released in India in 1990

We pointed in our last post to "similar procedures in the unfolding of Ragas in the music of Hirabai Barodekar and Roshan Ara Begum (which also can be found in their teachers, especially Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan) and thus making it possible to identify some unique features of the original Kirana Gharana". This fascinating procedure is - of course - the legendary Merukhand method. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merukhand

https://ptvijaybakshi.blogspot.com/2016/05/merukhand-technique-theory.html

Especially in Roshan Ara Begum's music I find it extremely fascinating, but also here in the music of Hirabai Barodekar it is very present, though perhaps in a more subtle way.

After these Hirabai Barodekar recordings we will turn to Amir Khan, who was very influenced by Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan and also by Ustad Aman Ali Khan of the Bhendibazar Gharana, which is said to have developed this method.

Noteworthy on the recordings here, the ones in our previous post and also the ones in our next post is the Sarangi accompaniment by one of the greatest Sarangi masters of the 20th century, Ustad Shakoor Khan, a nephew and disciple of Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan. See on him:

http://www.sarangi.net/sarangi-players-s-z/139-shakoor-khan

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Hirabai Barodekar (1905-1989) & Saraswati Rane (1913-2006) - Jugalbandi 1 - Cassette released in India in 1992

Here a wonderful recording from the archives of All India Radio by Hirabai Barodekar together with her younger sister Saraswati Rane. The first volume we only have as a cassette from a box of two cassettes. The recordings of both cassettes were first released as two LPs in 1990. Of the second volume we have also the LP and will post it next.

It is very interesting to compare Hirabai Barodeka's music with the one by the other great female singer of the Kirana Gharana, Roshan Ara Begum. In the unfolding of the Raga one can discover similar procedures - though in a much more enegertic way in the case of Roshan Ara Begum - and thus be able to identify some unique features of the original Kirana Gharana.

About Saraswati Rane see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraswati_Rane

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