A MUSICAL ANTHOLOGY OF THE ORIENT
INDIA II
Edited fot the International Music Council by the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation
Bärenreiter Musicaphon, ?, BM 30 L 2007
This is the second album on India and the seventh one in this anthology with Alain Daniélou as General Editor.
This album is dedicated to the ''music of the dance and theatre of South India'' specifically the Bharata Natyam and only one track on Kathakali.
The Bharata Natyam is danced by women only to the singing and drumming of several performers. Here the mridangam,the kartals, the flute, the violin and jew's harp are part of the orchestra. Although it's not mentionned I can hear a clarinet on track B2. Bharata Natyam is typical of Tamil country while Kathakali hails from Kerala.
What is quite surprising is that after a succession of different dances with plenty of drumming it is customary to conclude the Bharata Natyam performance with a shlokam where the dancer must follow and mime what's sung in the poem called tevaram on Krishna's love. No drumming but just one singer with his disciple and a shruti box.
Text in English (German and French)
All the albums of this series are mono-recordings.
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