Debu Chaudhuri - Desh

Debu Chaudhuri Raga Desh

India Archives Music IAM 1002, 1989


TRACK LISTINGS
1. Desh - Alap & Jor
2. Desh - Vilambit & Drut Gat, Tintal

Devabrata "Debu" Chaudhuri - sitar
Shafaat Ahmed Khan - tabla


Pandit Devabrata (Debu) Chaudhuri today is the foremost exponent of the Senia gharana. Initially trained under the late Panchu Gopal Datta, he trained for a fruitful 38 years under Sangeet Acharya Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan, Sitar Sudhakar of the Senia gharana. His romance with the sitar started when he was all of 4 years old, he made his public debut at the age of 12 and his first broadcast for All India Radio was in the year 1948.Debu Chaudhuri is a man of many talents. He is India`s foremost sitar maestro, respected teacher and guru, composer of numerous mellifluous symphonies, creator of eight new ragas, author of three books and several monographs, eminent musicologist (successfully guiding 33 Ph. D. Scholars) and winner of numerous awards and honours. He has been conferred the prestigious Padma Bhushan, one of India`s highest civilian honours bestowed by the President of India and the most coveted Sangeet Natak Award for his invaluable contribution in the field of Indian classical music. He has also recorded many albums and cassettes with companies all over the world.In 1960, Debu Chaudhuri left Kolkata to join the newly established Department of Music at the University of Delhi in search of his mission to promote the purest traditional form of sitar playing being played by his revered Guruji, propagating its special techniques and quality not only in India, but all over the world. Here he taught for 40 years. His zeal for the propagation of Indian classical music has been boundless and he has delivered lectures at more than 130 Universities around the world, chaired various international seminars on music and has represented India at numerous cultural festivals.He has recently started a unique project to document rare instrumental compositions, which are being forgotten or overlooked by the present generation - a project so dear to his heart that his only ambition is to complete it during his lifetime. As the founder Chairperson of the Delhi University Culture council and as the former Dean and Head of the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Debu Chaudhuri`s contribution to the field of education places him on an exalted pedestal of respect in the domain of music all over the world. He enjoys wide popularity both as a Maestro of Sitar and as a learned teacher of music, a unique combination and achievement indeed. (ITC Sangeet Research Academy)Raga Desh is one Raga that I could recognize even before I knew anything about classical music, and I believe every Indian irrespective of familiarity with classical music will know it by it's sound. It is the Raga to which the National Song of India, "Vande Mataram" is set. It is an amazingly beautiful Raga, full of inspiring, uplifting sentiment and Shri Debu Chowdhuri does not disappoint with an exquisite Alaap. The Sitar that Debu Chowdhuri uses has a nice shimmering sound to it that sounds very nice as well.I very much like Panditji's performance of raag Desh.As one of the few well known sitar playing representatives of the Senia gharana, Pt. Debu Chaudhuri is an important musician. But he is also one of the best sitarists of the 20th. Century, in my opinion (along with Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Nikhil Banerjee, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Manilal Nag, Rais Khan, and perhaps Shahid Parvez).For more info on the artist see his website: http://www.debuchaudhuri.com/



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