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The Rapadi unfastened aerial auditorium present came live connected Monday evening arsenic 2 starring maestros of Hindustani euphony delivered a spellbinding jugalbandhi, marking the ninth time of performances astatine the ongoing Swaralaya Samanwayam creation and euphony festival.
Shehnai maestro Pandit Shailesh Bhagwat and sitar exponent Ustad Rafeeque Khan joined forces connected the Swaralaya platform, enchanting listeners with the lyrical interplay of their instruments.
Though rooted successful antithetic traditions of dependable (wind and string), the artistes achieved effortless harmony.
“It is not a situation astatine all. It is ever a joyousness to execute together, to enactment and complement 1 another,” they said during a pre-show enactment with the media.
They opened with an alaap successful Raga Yaman earlier moving connected to a enactment of nighttime ragas. A cardinal disciple of the legendary Ustad Bismillah Khan, Mr. Bhagwat coaxed controlled, mellow tones from his shehnai, beautifully complemented by the nimble sitar enactment of Ustad Rafeeque Khan.
“Shehnai tin beryllium a large instrument. We request to workout restraint during a jugalbandhi,” Mr. Bhagwat said.
The jugalbandhi was followed by a Sufi Qawwali rendition by Ustad Ashraf Hydros, Dr. Sumit Datta and team.
Earlier, playback vocalist Satheesh Babu Kozhikode was fixed the Swaralaya Vijaya Jayaraj Award.
Karivallur Murali gave distant the award. Palakkad Municipal Chairperson P. Smithesh presented the Swaralaya mudra.
