A flute and santoor recital was performed at 'Basant Utsav 2013' on Monday at Ravindra Bhavan. Noted flutist Pandit Ronu Majumdar and Santoor player Pandit Ulhas Bapat enthralled the audience with their performances.
Organized by Abhinav Kala Parishad, the five day programme began on March 22 would conclude here on Tuesday. On the penultimate day, the show began with the enchanting flute recital of Pandit Ronu Majumdar.
He is known as the pioneer in flute recital and his forte is the wooden Indian Classical flute. Ronu Majumdar, a disciple of his father Bhanu Majumdar is an authority in this field.
He began playing with Raga Puriya, leaving the classical music listeners awestruck. The audiences then also enjoyed some of his compositions on Holi. Majumdar belongs to Maihar Gharana and usually plays Hindustani Classical Music. Collaboratively, Majumdar has played with Pt. Ravishankar in the Indian Festival Orchestra. Ronu Majumdar has done miracles in flute recital.
He was accompanied by Parth Sarthi Mukherjee on Tabla, Akhilesh Gundecha over pakhavaj and Kalpesh presented the vocal compositions before the audiences. The programme was further followed with the performance of Pandit Ulhas Bapat. Pt Bapat is a santoor exponent with exceptional skills to do innovations in various classical compositions.
He began with playing Raga Gorak Kalyan followed by Raga Mishra Kafi. He wrapped up his performance with Tappa a kind of folk music.