ILYAS KHAN | Raga Chayanat (Mehfil early 70ies)

An album with Ilyas Khan Sahebs music can be found here: https://matyasitar.bandcamp.com/album...

Alap, Bilampat & Drut Teental
performed at a mehfil at the YMCA Lucknow sometime in the early 1970ies.

Ustad Ilyas Khan - Sitar
Tabla acc. unknown

Spool recording by Naseem, from the collection of Ustad Irfan MD Khan

Sitarya Ustad Ilyas Khan (1924-1989) -second son of the legendary sarod maestro Ustad Sakhawat Hussain Khan (1875-1955) of Lucknow-Shahjahanpur Gharana was a phenomenal musician with a huge repertoire of Ragas and compositions. Most of his life he was teaching music at the Bhatkhande College in Lucknow and lived a life devoted to music.
"Ilyas Khan was roughly a contemporary of Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan and Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan. Yet few listeners today have heard of him, let alone his recorded music. He added to his gharana’s knowledge bank by studying, in addition to his family’s repertoire, more gats and dhrupads from the sitar gharana of Kalpi, near Lucknow. His non-family teachers had been the ustads Abdul Ghani Khan, a dhrupad singer, and Yusuf Ali Khan, a sitarist and sitar maker (also the original designer of the kharaj-pancham sitar that is today synonymous with Ravi Shankar)." (quoted from Arnab Chakrabarty´s article in scroll.in)

Recording and pictures taken from the archive of Ustad Irfan MD Khan.

More clips of the Ustad from our archive:

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