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"What a lovely mind for 'swara' and tone Rajeev Taranath displays!
Each note leaves a lovely, languishing trail of tone behind it." "It was a great performance from Rajeev Taranath at
the NCPA. Bombay's connoisseurs will certainly
love to hear him more often" "Indian music was the focus of Cal Arts' Spring Music Festival;
one high point - a luminous single raga from
Rajeev Taranath and Swapan Chaudhuri." "Taranath is making music that moves sublimely from
brooding introspection to climaxes of breathtaking excitement." "Rajeev Taranath commenced his concert with a satisfyingly exhaustive
presentation of Rag Yaman --a deeply introspective alap, complicated
jhala and richly embellished madhyalaya gat followed by drut and atidrut
gats revealing his amazing taiyyari. It was a concert to be stored
in one's memory." "The raga's efflorescence was unfolded by the well-laid
alap, charming jod and varied rhythms added up to a
deeply evocative effort." "Slowly, with strength and tenderness, this consummate artist built a structure of ordered sound which I would dare to compare with Beethoven's Hammer Klavier. Each note was electrifyingly true and rich in inner light... Surely Rajeev Taranath is the true disciple of his illustrious preceptor".- Adrian Rawlins, Music Critic, Australia "Solid layakari and the ability to extemporize exciting tihais
resulted
in nothing better than a thrilling presentation from the gentleman
scholar and sarod master". After a long time a very high standard of music was heard
at the Rana Smriti Samsad's Annual Conference. Rajeev Taranath's
evocation of the raga revealed fine imagination, aesthetic sense and
technical expertise". "The hypnotic expansion of space and volume, the gradual
intensification of feeling, created a unique atmosphere in which patient
meditation and natural admiration for the profound musical skill of the
performer had time and opportunity to mingle". " Rajeev's music comes through as a constant dialectic between
deep classical rigor and an irrepressible emotional intensity." |
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