Z.M. Dagar - Rudra Vina Live: Seattle 1981 [Live]

From the Artist
"All dhrupad singers were vina players," Dagar explained, "because vina was very important for dhrupad. Sometimes a singer would play the vina to check the shrutis (microtones, of which there are 22 in the Indian octave), and by listening to them on the vina, he would learn. But the singers never performed on vina outside the home."

Product Description
1981 Seattle concert. Solo vina, dhrupad-style alaps.

Z.M. Dagar - Rudra Vina Live: Seattle 1981 [Live]

Tracks:

Todi
Ahir Lalit
Panchamkauns

Album Description

1981 Seattle concert. Solo vina, dhrupad-style alaps.

Customer Reviews:

heavenly spheres.......2005-06-16

Listening to Zia Mohiuddin Dagar play rudra veena is like watching the stars at night. If you can contemplate all the ways that all the stars move in relation to each other, you may understand imaginatively how Dagar creates precise relationships between all the tones he plays.

The Singing Beena.......2004-06-12

I came about buying this CD reading all the reviews on the website. This is my first ZMD CD and I must say I am hooked. It is a beautiful recording to begin with, I must say they have superior quality recordings of Indian music in the West. One must not miss the introduction of the raag Todi ( Track 1), that won my heart. Its amazing to hear the Beena make almost a vocal sound. Certainly not for the casual listener though. Thank you, Late Zia M Dagar for breaking the family rule of not playing the Beena outside of the home. How else could we hear this divine music.

Master of the Dagarvani........2000-05-19

This recording reveals the genius and unique technique of the late Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. The musical tradition, Dagarvani of Dhrupad and his lineage are stuff of legend. He displays his soft and gentle technique on this grand and noble instrument. His speciality is the Aalaap in which he displays his mastery of this ancient tradition.

Excellent rendering of Traditional Drupad music........1999-09-11

Drupad is the original classical music style of Northern India, that has been greatly eclipsed by the more popular Khayal style, and other forms of lighter popular music. There are very few classical musicians who render the traditional Drupad. Ustad Zia Mohiuddin is one of them. He comes from a family of Drupad singers and instrumentalist, whose lineage goes back to the time of the Moghul Emperor Akbar. His technique seems effortless and very relaxing: enough to help you to meditate in to a higher plane. His virtuosity and artistic ability is unparalleled, except by some of his Dagar cousins and nephews.

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