Shivkumar Sharma - Divinity at Dawn

Santoor maestro Shivkumar Sharma performs the morning raga Bairagi, Live at the I.C.A, London 18th July 1993. His strengths, in addition to his sheer virtuosity, are undoubtedly a highly developed aesthetic sense and a command of rhythm that few musicians could even hope to equal. These strengths are illustrated in this recording. His technique is faultless, his rendition of Raga Bairagi evokes the meditative mood of which he speaks in his introduction (Track 1), but the highlight of the performance is a series of complex rhythmic variations in an already difficult Taal. In this he is aided by the marvellous tabla accompaniment of Pandit Anindo Chatterjee.