Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

No words can express the feeling of the audience! It was indeed a mesmerizing performance by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and his two sons. He started the concert in such an informative way by showing examples about how he learnt to play the Sarod. Thereafter two of his new raagas Kamal Shree and Ganesh Kalyan were purely melodious and beautiful combination of notes. Then he played very famous and two of very popular compositions Vaishnav jan and Raghupati which invoked inner spirit of the audience. Second segment was played by his two sons where they started with Raaga Desh and they literally stole the hearts of the audience with beautiful rhythmic compositions. Lastly they concluded the concert with beautiful Raag Maala starting with Kirvani where the entire team got together and two of the tabla players also rocked the house when they all played Sawaal Jawaab. The concert itself was more than enough to forget about our routine rituals and took us all to heaven - Amit Dhamelia

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan started the programme with two melodious ragas founded by himself. First raag Kamal Shree was based on chaptaal (10 beats) and second raag Ganesh Kalyan based on ektaal (12 beats). Then he played two popular bhajans Vaishnav Jan and Raghupathi in kamaj and misra ghaara respectively. The performance was so excellent that it caught the attention of the entire audience. In the second part Ayaan and Amaan Ali played raag Desh starting with Auchar followed by two compositions based in Madhyalaya jaap taal and drut teentaal. Then Ustadji played a raagamaala, compositions in different raags and taals such as Kirvani, Baghyesri, Kausick Kanada, Abhogi etc with his two sons. The compositions were also based on different rare taalas such Panchamswari, 12.5 beats and 11 beats. Concluding the programme with Sawaal and Jawaab was very good. Mr. Tanmoy Bose and Mr. Mithilesh Kumar Jha accompanied them very well. Singapore is very proud and happy to welcome such great artistes. - Guru Chandranath Bhattacharya (Sitar and Harmonium tutor)