Shivkumar Sharma, Rahul Sharma (ft Shafaat Ahmed Khan) - Two Ge

Shivkumar Sharma & Rahul Sharma (ft Shafaat Ahmed Khan) - Two Generation, Santoor duet – Raag Chandrakauns

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1. Announcement
Raag Chandrakauns
2. Alaap, Jor & Jhala
3. Gat in Rupak Tal & Teental

The Event

The performance took place in April 2001, in Stuttgart, Germany. It formed part of an all night presentation of music and dance, with a theme of World Peace.

The line up, which included many legends of Indian culture, was:

Shefali Nag (Bharat Natyam Dance) with musical group, Sultan Khan (Sarangi), Zakir Hussain (Tabla), Shafaat Amhed Khan (Tabla), Shivkumar and Rahul Sharma (Santoor), T. H. Vinayakram (Ghatam), Hariprasad Chaurasia and his nephew Rakesh (Flute), Amjad Ali Khan and his sons, Ayaan Ali and Amaan Ali (Sarod).

[Chandrakauns is normally performed in the late evening. The notes used, according to their Indian names, are Sa, flat Ga, Ma, flat Dha and Ni. Being based on only five notes, it is described as a pentatonic raga. If you consider a Western scale, with a tonic of C, the equivalent notes are C, E flat, F, A flat and B. Those notes are part of the C Harmonic Minor scale. I suspect that the santoors were tuned so that the Sa was close to Western C#. In that case the full scale of the raga can be considered to be C#, E, F#, A, C, C#. Those notes are part of the C# Harmonic Minor scale... Ed.]

Some notes with the CD, from the Producer, Shefali Nag