Videos of Great Violinists

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SrinathK
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Videos of Great Violinists

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I've heard it once too often the other day, that we've done a poor job of video archiving the playing of our greatest violinists when they were at their peak.

Therefore in this thread, we are going to share whatever videos we've got of our violinists that are out there and hope that what does remain shall be useful to rasikas and music students.

With a sincere request that this thread not turn into a space for the sort of stuff that will turn music students & lovers away...

We'll start with a video of Lalgudi Jayaraman playing Ada Modi Galade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_TC6rORbug - Part I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVYJj0jxGlg - Part II

The video offers enough, but could have easily offered much more had the cameraman not blotted out the lower part of the violin (and almost all the left hand work) while focusing on LGJ.

Rsachi
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This is a good one TNK : https://youtu.be/yfD8EEN9sd0

Also VVS: https://vimeo.com/24806920


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Sanskriti Series put up this video of a live Jugalbandhi of TNK and N Rajam : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVoDtIY65t0

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Shyamala Rangarajan
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Here is one by Ganesh - Kumaresh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT46mNX2_5I

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Lalgudi playing his Thillana in Maand : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zioUxMBO9YA


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It was ‘Kanakaangi-Todi-Ata-Varna’ they were playing together. amsharma

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A performance of LGJ in Russia :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxhWjIBV5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuRKiXKU3iM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGi8oRtkJw

Adadu Ashangadu va :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO2RU0E9Nac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEl3sww7DQ

An interview with LGJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goa1SGewFTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7oxP_ha-0s

One regret would be here that there are not so many videos of LGJ before the 1980s, when he was at the peak of his capabilities.

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M Chandrashekaran playing Kathana Kuthuhalam : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0H6WVGo-Ws

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Nadaloludai by (not who you expected, huh?) M Chandrashekaran sir : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj1sPgTchTE

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The Violin-videos bringing out more details of the left-hand-finger-techniques help the violin-aspirants a lot. Fortunately, such video, in which Vidwan VVSubrahmanyam Sir had played ‘A string of Ragas and a teaser (https://youtu.be/psD7gj6zBa0)’ in a Lec-dem by the initiation of Dr. Lakshmi Sreeram.

Even though this was meant for some other purpose, now, this truly helps the poor Violin-aspirants a lot, being the only video of its kind, and we all must thank Dr. Lakshmi Sreeram in this respect. amsharma

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