LA VINA DE S. BALACHANDER
Prestige de la musique extra-européenne l'Inde vol. 6
Disques Espérance, 1978, ESP 165 510
This album was recorded with the help of the Association Française des Amis de l'Orient. This association used to organize lots of concerts during the seventies and the eighties in Paris at the Musée Guimet. Indian artists were the most numerous and some of them started their European career there.
That was not the case for Balachander who was born in 1927 and gave his first concert in 1943. He's a master of the South Indian vina or veena but he started music on the kanjeera and tabla, then the sitar before discovering the vina.
He plays the raga mayamalavagaula (15th melakarta in the Carnatic system) corresponding to the Hindustani raag bhairavi.
Side B is dedicated to the kriti ''meru samaana'' composed by Tyagaraja in the same raga.
R. Krishnamurthy joins Balachander on this kriti set to the tala adi.
Text in French only.
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