SAKHAWAT HUSSAIN KHAN | Piloo Thumri (1935)
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Sarod: Ustad Sakhawat Hussain Khan
Tabla: Ustad Faiyaz Hussain Khan
Raga: Piloo Thumri
Most present-day connoisseurs of old Raga-music recordings have heard Sakhawat Khan´s music for the first time in this thrilling video clip that was first uploaded to KZread by Hungarian sitar player and collector Toth Szabi in October 2014. This clip stems from “The heritage collection” of JBH Wadia (a prominent movie director, screenwriter, producer and founder of Wadia Movietone Studio) which features six performances by leading classical musicians. Produced between 1933-1943 at the Wadia-Movietone studios in Bombay, as part of Wadia´s pioneering series “The Variety Programme”, these are the earliest filmed performances of leading 20th century artists. The short reels were shown as “openers”,before major movies in cinema halls. In 2019 we located a much cleaner copy of the “Variety Programme #8” in the collection of Irfan Khan and restored it.
As Sakhawat Khan left India in early 1936 to tour Europe with Madame Menaka’s dance troupe, this reel must have been filmed some time between 1933 and early 1936. Each detail of this performance remains thrilling even after watching it many times: the beauty of his gat-toda, the superhuman speed and clarity of his bols, the playing posture, the stunning theka and thaap of the tabla accompanist, Ustad Faiyaz Hussain Khan (maternal uncle of Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa)... .
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My grandfather
@TheShadow-td8fz
4 ай бұрын
A lot of Salam Ustad Ji
Wow beatiful performance 100 years ago
Incredible
amazing! its a 86 years old recording.. and So clear..😊
Amazing video! Thank you for sharing
What a treat
Wah!
amazing
वाह!
Such an amazing recording for it's era, and what a treasure to document for generations to follow. I know very little about sarod but I have heard that sarodiyas of this generation and older still played with their fingertips instead of finger nails. I've been told it has to do with the lineage sarod has with rubab. Is this true and is Khan saheb demonstrating that here?
@sarode
2 жыл бұрын
Sakhawat Khansaheb played with his fingernails, and when they wore out, he used finger caps made of fish scales, which approximate the tone of fingernails, since both materials are made of keratin. The family continues to use both nails and caps, although his grandson Irfan Khansaheb now uses celluloid caps as needed.
The sound is sound is so much closer to Rabab here. Do we some idea of when exactly the sound transitinoned and became universal to what we understand as Sarod now now? Special mention of tabaliyas posture, which is reminiscent of what is seen in paintings. His thaap is also brilliant, and dare I say, more sustained when compared to even the recordings of Thirakwa KH Saheb. As both played with Gauhar Jan, they might actually have known each other and had dangals ?
@lucknow-shahjahanpur-ghara7790
3 жыл бұрын
Good question SS (may i ask your name please?), i will forward it to Ustadji. The tabaliyas thaap amazes me everytime anew as well and it is one of the innumerable attractions of this incredible document.
@jigggro
3 жыл бұрын
@@lucknow-shahjahanpur-ghara7790 my name somnath sarkar
@AP-ti3nz
2 жыл бұрын
Tabla player is Thirakwa Khan Sahebs uncle Ud Faiyaz Hussain Khan…
@jigggro
2 жыл бұрын
@@AP-ti3nz thank you. I later found out it was his Mama, and also trained thiraks khan saab ? What a resonant thaap. Brilliant.
@AP-ti3nz
2 жыл бұрын
@@jigggro Yes his thaap is excellent indeed, but tabla quality helps also. Tablas in those days were larger (taller and larger pudi diameter)… this results in deep manly resonant tabla sound. If given preference, even if playing C# or D# scale, I would prefer to play a larger tabla to have that strong and proper sound like it is supposed to be. Of course, perhaps that much resonance is not required in every musical application or situation, but I prefer the austere sound of that resonance.