Attended a concert of Ramprapanna Bhattacharya (Sitar) accompanied by Unmesh Banerjee (Tabla) at NCPA, Mumbai as part of Saz-e-Bahar festival on 2nd April 2016 with Ravi, Rekha Kaku and Alhad Kaka.
Ramprapanna Bhattacharya (Etawah Gharana) is disciple of Pt. Kashinath Mukherjee and Pt. Arvind Parikh.
He dedicated the concert to Shehnai maestro Ali Ahmed Hussain and Tabla maestro Shankar Ghosh who passed away recently. It was the birthday of Ustaad Bade Gulam Ali Khan and he announced that he will play his composition but eventually did not specify which one was it.
Chosen raag of the concert was Raag Bihag (बिहाग). Concert started with Aalap then moved into Jod, followed by Jhala.
Tabalji then joined him with Teen taal. Tabla volume was on lower side. It was rectified mid way. Ramprapanna played well and tried his best to win the audience back.
When he slid his hand over Sitar there was a sound of hand sliding over threads (Sitar version of car passing over multiple spread breakers at speed). That was a noise (रसभंग) in good music.
Ramprapanna plays well. But today rather than playing melodious or gayki Sitar he preferred to play fast notes with a lot of strumming. Audience was not very responsive, so he tried even harder. In the process the fine balance was lost.
Tabalji joined late and got about 15-20 minutes of playing time (considering short time of concert of about 1 hr) and played well.
Audience clapped exactly 4 times, including the conclusion of concert. Some also left mid way, probably they had some pressing matters to attend.
Can't post any photograph of concerts as organizers did not allow photography.
Trivia: Ramprapanna was playing at NCPA after exactly 10 years.
Entertainment rating 7/10.
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