Selected Performance
Khayāl in rāga Ahir Bhairav.
Baḍā khayāl in ati vilambit Ektāl, "Sājjan Ab Bān Ja Mere Sāthī...."
Choṭā khayāl in drut Tīntāl, "Mohe Cheḍo na Ghiridārī… Itini Paḍā Jo Hamārī."
Parveen Sultana (voice and surmandal) with Nizamuddin Khan (tabla) and Vasanti Mhapsekar (harmonium) and an unidentified tambura player.
HMV ECSD 2744
Rāga Ahir Bhairav
Bhatkhande (1969, 5:346-347) describes rāga Ahir Bhairav as in Bhairav ṭhāṭ and as having madhyam as it vādi and sadaj as the samvādi. Bhatkhande notes that this is a mixed rāga — that is, in the purvāṅg the rāga is Bhairav and in the uttarāṅg it is mixed with rāga Kāfi (thus komal niṣād and suddh dhaivat instead of the other way around as you would expect in a Bhairav ṭhāṭ rāga). Less easy to explain is the occasional use of śuddh riṣabh (Bhatkhande describes it as tivra riṣabh) in ascending passages. Perhaps because of these characteristics, Bhatkhande does not give an āroh-avroh shape and instead describes Ahir Bhairav with a calan (that is, how it "proceeds"). He describes the rāga as appropriate to the early morning.
This performance tends to emphasize ma and sa, but ga and re also play important roles.
Ektāla - Ati Vilambit
 
Performance Organization
0:00 āocār ālāp
0:52 Baḍā Khayāl: "Sājjan Ab Bān Ja Mere Sāthī..." (He is now my partner…)
āvarta 1: introduction to sthā'ī
2:09 mukhṛā / āvarta 2: remains in the lower tetrachord
3:26 mukhṛā / āvarta 3: extends to pa
4:46 mukhṛā / āvarta 4: extends to upper sa
6:04 mukhṛā / āvarta 5: extends to upper re
7:24 mukhṛā / āvarta 6: extends to upper ga
8:39 mukhṛā / āvarta 7: extends to upper ma
9:50 mukhṛā / āvarta 8: sargam tān
10:53 mukhṛā / āvarta 9: ākār / gamak tān
11:55 end
11:56 Choṭā Khayāl: "Mohe Cheḍo na Ghiridārī… Itini Paḍā Jo Hamārī" ("Do not tease… It once was yours…") / statement of sthā'i
12:26 statement of antarā
12:39 ākār / gamak tāns
12:51 sargam tāns
13:07 ākār / gamak tāns
13:27 ākār tāns into upper registers (closed with gamak tāns)
14:02 speed up
14:15 gamak tāns
15:14 end
Khayāl Outline Thumrī
  18-Apr-2018