Dr Santosh Nahar Violin Recital Raag Bihag Classical

Pandit Dr. Santosh Nahar’s Classical Violin Recital in Raag Bihag Dr. Santosh Nahar | Violin Recital | Raag Bihag | Classical (18:57) A sublime Hindustani classical violin recital in Raag Bihag (राग बिहाग) by the eminent maestro Pandit Dr. Santosh Kumar Nahar, representative of the illustrious Mishra Gharana (Bhagalpur / Banaras tradition) and Top-Grade artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan. Exemplifying the authentic "Gayaki Ang" (vocalized instrumental style) on the violin, this recital unfolds through a deeply contemplative Aaochar Alap and Nom-tom, followed by traditional Madhyalaya and Drut Gats, embellished with exquisite meends, alankarik taans, sawal-jawab, an electrifying Jhala, and a dynamic concluding tihaai (thehi). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 RAAG PARTICULARS (राग विवरण) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Raag (राग): Bihag (बिहाग) • Thaat (थाट): Bilawal (बिलावल थाट) • Jati (जाति): Audhav - Sampoorna (औढव - सम्पूर्ण) Rishabh (R) and Dhaivat (D) omitted in Aaroha • Swaras (स्वर): Both Madhyams: Shuddha Madhyam (M / म) is the primary note; Teevra Madhyam (Ḿ / म्) is employed in a distinctive vakra phrase with Pancham (P Ḿ P G M G) Shuddha Gandhar, Rishabh, Dhaivat, and Nishad • Aaroha (आरोह): 'N S G M P N Ṡ • Avroha (अवरोह): Ṡ N D P, Ḿ P D N P, M G, R S • Vadi Swara (वादी): Gandhar (G / ग) • Samvadi Swara (संवादी): Nishad (N / नि) • Pakad (पकड़): 'N S G M G, P Ḿ P G M G, R S • Samay (वादन समय): Late Night / Second Prahar of Night (रात्रि का द्वितीय प्रहर, 10 PM – 1 AM) • Tradition / Gharana: Mishra Gharana (Bhagalpur / Banaras Ang) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎻 GAT COMPOSITION, BOLS & SWARAS (गत एवं बोल) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Taal: Teentaal (तीनताल, 16 Beats) & Rupak Ang 1. STHAYI GAT (स्थाई गत) • Swar Notation (स्वर रचना): [सम / Sam on Beat 1] । - - P Ḿ । P G M G । R S 'N S । G M P - । । G M P N । Ṡ N D P । Ḿ P G M । G - R S । • Bowing Stroke Bols (वायलिन बोल): । - - दा रा । दिर दिर दा रा । दा - दा रा । दा रा दा - । । दा रा दा रा । दिर दिर दा रा । दा रा दा रा । दा - दा - । • Vocal Bandish Counterpart: "बाजे झनन झनन झन बिछुआ, निसदिन बाजे मोरा" 2. ANTARA GAT (अंतरा गत) • Swar Notation (स्वर रचना): । - - G M । P N Ṡ Ṡ । N Ṡ ṙ Ṡ । N D P - । । Ḿ P D N । P - M G । P Ḿ G M । G - R S । • Bowing Stroke Bols (वायलिन बोल): । - - दा रा । दिर दिर दा दा । दा रा दा रा । दा - दा - । । दा रा दा रा । दा - दा रा । दा रा दा रा । दा - दा - । • Vocal Bandish Counterpart: "पिया घर आये मोरे अंगना, सुख पायो सखी मोरी" • English Translation / Meaning: "The delicate anklets ring sweetly day and night, filling the silent hours with festive melody as the beloved arrives at the doorstep, dispelling all sorrow." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎻 VIOLIN GAYAKI-ANG TECHNIQUE MAPPING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Bandish → Gat (Fixed melodic framework set to Tala) • Swar Alap → Sustained Bowed Meends (Continuous pitch glides across strings) • Murki / Khatka → Rapid left-hand finger grace-notes and Krintan • Alankar / Taan → Fast Da-Ra / Dir-Dir bowing scalar patterns • Layakari → Cross-rhythms (Chhand), Jhala, and Tihaai (Thehi) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTER BREAKDOWN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 - Aaochar Alap & Nom-tom on Violin (आओचार आलाप एवं नोम-तोम) 01:45 - Meend Exploration on Mandra & Madhya Saptak ('N S G M G) 03:25 - Sthayi Gat Presentation: Madhyalaya (स्थाई गत) 05:10 - Swar Vistar & Gayaki-ang Nuances (स्वर विस्तार एवं मींड) 07:15 - Antara Gat: Soaring into Tara Saptak (अंतरा गत) 08:50 - High Register Gamak & Pukaar (तार सप्तक गमक) 10:15 - Alankarik Phrases & Palte (अलंकारिक तान एवं पलटें) 12:45 - Drut Gat Transition & Fast Taankari (द्रुत गत एवं सपाट तान) 14:20 - Complex Koot Taans & Layakari (कूट तान व लयकारी) 15:35 - Sawal-Jawab with Tabla (वायलिन-तबला संवाद) 16:40 - High-Speed Jhala (द्रुत झाला) 17:30 - Thehi / Concluding Damdar Tihaai (दमदार तिहाई) 18:35 - Climax on Sam 18:57 - Performance Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏷️ TAGS / KEYWORDS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #SantoshNahar #DrSantoshNahar #RaagBihag #ViolinRecital #IndianViolin #HindustaniClassical #Bihag #GayakiAng #InstrumentalMusic #DasPiyaMusic    / @siddhantnahar