Saturday, January 1, 2011

Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan - Great Master Great Music


Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan - Great Master Great Music
EMI-His Masters Voice - ECLP-2608 - P.1980


Side One

A1 Raga Bihag - Khayal & Tarana

Side Two

B1 Raga Desh - Tarana
B2 Raga Sarfarda Bilawal - Tappa
B3 Raga Zila - Thumri

accompaniment:

Shakoor Khan, sarangi
Lalji Gokhle, tabla



The first few posts of this year I decided to dedicate to some little known masters that are more and more falling into oblivion. I hope the high quality of the music will make up for for the sometimes flawed recording techniques and pressings that are made manifests here. If not, the mere scarcity of these recordings might be enough compensation. As usual, the original LP is in perfect condition and has previously been played only a few times.

Mushtaq Hussein Khan of the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana


Mushtaq Hussain Khan (1880-1964) is considered one of the leading lights of the Rampur-Sahaswan vocal school. He was trained by his father Kallan Khan and elder brother Ashiq Hussain Khan. He also sought taleem from his father-in-law Inayat Hussain Khan, the doyen of the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana, and Senia Wazir Khan.


Mushtaq Hussain Khan was honoured with the President’s Award in 1952 and the Padma Bhushan in 1957.
He trained a number of students.

Reference: Musicians of India (Naya Prokash, 1993) by Amal Das Sharma.





3 comments:

Janas said...

Beautiful album, thanks a lot.

Dainis said...

please post this again, I missed it.
I am a great fan of Mushtaq Hussain Khan (I learned a little Hindustan music from one of his students), and am just discovering your great blog. Thanks

Anonymous said...

Hello. I am a collector and distributor.
This is great effort. I highly, very highly appreciate.
However, I wonder, why won't you post in higher bitrate?
192kbps for such great music is not good enough.
Remember what you are preserving here might be the last every copy.
This music needs to stay with the civilization. Some DJ in a nigh club some day would still needs to re-mix it with while puritans would still want to hear in very expensive instrument. Some musicologist would like to understand this music using advanced DSP.
Why not.
So why not rip in 24-bit 192kHz FLAC, so share the highest you have.
Don't get me wrong. I bow to you for sharing this.