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This classic Ashtapadi - Vadasiyadi / #PriyeCharusheele describes the relationship between Krishna and Radha in romantic settings, it is written in exquisite sanskrit set to raga Basanti in Jhaptal.
Composed by Jayadeva, 12th century Odisha.
This Ashtapadi ( 8 measure / verse ) is composed by the great 12th century poet from Odisha, Jayadeva.
Sikkil Gurucharan plays Krishna in this rendition and Radha is represented by the Esraj.
Anil Srinivasan, Sikkil Gurucharan Live @ The Peninsula Studios.
Anil Srinivasan (piano), Sikkil Gurucharan (vocals) , Arshad Khan ( esraj), Amaan Ali ( tabla)
This track was recorded and filmed live on 9th of November 2012 @ The Peninsula Studios in a single take, in presence of an invited audience, a tribute to the quality of the artists.
This format and treatment makes the recordings @ The Peninsula Studios unique.
This is our modest contribution to take this genre of music to a wider audience and kindle curiosity in our rich literature and poetry.
These great performers worked together to produce a class recording of ten great songs.
The production team was led Avinash Chordia our head of studios, Deepak Samson our recording engineer did the sound and recorded the track , Narinder Tawakley provided logistics support and Shankar was the studio technician.
These tracks were mixed and mastered by Deepak Samson to be published by Universal Music Group as Nokia Music Theatre.
Ananya Rane our head of films created this AV with Kevin Pereira assisted by Sameep Tawakley , it was edited by Ravi Verma and together they brought this album to life.
This project was led by Anil Srinivasan.
These great performers worked together to produce a class recording of ten great songs.
This presentation is curated and produced by Sita Raina and Subroto Chattopadhyay and the team @ The Peninsula Studios.