Indian Night Live (part 2)
Kayan Kalhor and Shujaat Husain Khan
Over the years, the Concertzender has recorded many world music concerts in the Netherlands. Seeing as world music covers such a large variety of styles, we have built up a collection filled with lots of exceptional concerts with music from all over the world, including the Middle East, the Mediterranean Basin, Africa, South America, India and the Arab world.
After several nights of concerts by Divas and Yiddish music, we focus on music from India this time. Tonight, you can listen to part 2 of Indian night live. The programme features performances by Kayan Kalhor from Iran and Shujaat Husain Khan, Dhroeh Nankoe, Ritwik Sanyal and V. Kalavathy Avadooth.
Kayan Kalhor from Iran and Shujaat Husain Khan from India performed at the Kleine Zaal (Recital Hall) in the Concertgebouw on 25 April. From their own point of view, the two grand masters of non-western classical music dove into an early Iranian genre: ghazal. Kayan Kalhor does so with his (Iranian viol) and Shujaat Husain Khan does so with his sitar (Indian lute).
That night’s performances were recorded by Anton van Halderen.
You can now listen to a registration of the concert by Hindu Surinamese musician Dhroeh Nankoe, recorded by the Concertzender at Rasa in Utrecht on 27 November 2004. Singer Dhroeh Nankoe gave the sarangi, an unusual string instrument in Suriname, a place among the accompaniment ensemble that consisted of bansuri (transverse flute), dhol (two-layer drumhead) and danthaal (iron bar).
On 2 November 1996 in the great hall of Tropeninstituut Amsterdam, 
the Concertzender made a registration of Indian music in the Devotional style of music.
The performers were:
Ritwik Sanyal (vocals and Druhpad)
Shrikant Misra (Pakhawaj)
Marianne Svacek and Glenn Kallasingh (Tampera)
You can listen to 3 ragas: first of all Raga Abhogi, then Raga Shankare and the performance is concluded with Raga Ghakali Teera.
This performance was recorded by Wijnand de Groot.
The next two hours, we play a registration of the concert made by the Concertzender on 13 May 2005, of Indian singer V. Kalavathy Avadooth at the KIT Tropentheater in Amsterdam.
V. Kalavathy Avadooth is blessed with a rich, soft flowing voice with which she gives a special mood to her music. Her sense of intonation and improvisation is flawless. That, combined with an absolute sense of rhythm and technical flexibility, she manages to perform ragas in a careful, yet conscious way. Kalavathy’s group is one of few regular ensembles in India and has a good strength of rhythm with two percussionists. In combination with the vocals, it results in beautiful polyrhythmic performances. 
We end the night with a part of the concert by Canadian/Indian singer Kiran Ahluwalia and the Zapp String Quartet, which we recorded at the Noorderkerk in Amsterdam in 2008.
This programme will be repeated one week later, at the same time: 00:00 – 07:00.
