ILYAS KHAN | Raga Chayanat (Mehfil early 70ies)

An album with Ilyas Khan Sahebs music can be found here: matyasitar.ban...
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:
• ILYAS KHAN

[@vijayendrarao8729]

Such a beautiful performance - creative, inspired, deeply thoughtful.

[@user-ds2gs6dd9c]

Beautiful!👍

[@johnconcannon4378]

Great start to my day ~ and same for end of evening

[@irfanmuhammadkhan4737]

What beautiful rendition..

[@vinaypande]

Khansaheb you look a lot like your uncle!

[@irfanmuhammadkhan4737]

@@vinaypande Thanks..Wish I could play like him

[@Surbahar1984]

Naman to d Gr8 Ustad

[@NoorKhan-786]

Wonderful surprise. Wasn't notified. This is beautiful. Thanks for the upload! Thanks for sharing Ustad Ji 🙏🙏🙏

[@nirmalakumarirodrigo9540]

Thank you so much dear Irfan bhai for these valuable recordings.

[@atiakhan7392]

Do keep posting the comments, it is nice to know you are appreciating our gharana.

[@soumensen4362]

Wonderful

[@angsujitbhattacharya6006]

Wonderful! In fact, being an ardent listener of hindustani classical music, today i have heard this great maestro for first time. ❤

[@lucknow-shahjahanpur-ghara7790]

That's great to know! We have many more equally great recordings of Ustad Ilyas Khan and of other eminent masters of the khandaan in our archive. Keep exploring.

[@dansarod]

Fantastic!

[@Satwik_Bhattacharya]

Marvelous rendition ❤