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S.Balachander~ Sarasijanabha Sodhari

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:45:34 +0000

S.Balachander- Sarasijanabha Sodhari.

S Balachander~ Ragupathy Raghava

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:44:14 +0000

S.Balachander- Raghupathy Raghava Rajaram.

GREAT STRINGS-VIDWAN S.BALACHANDAR ON VEENA-raag Varali 2/2

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:44:13 +0000

movie made by purnabhat.

GREAT STRINGS-VIDWAN S.BALACHANDAR ON VEENA-raag Varali 1/2

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:44:11 +0000

movie made by purnabhat.

S Balachander Veena

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:44:10 +0000

One of the greatest Vainikas ever in the world! none like him before or after!

balachander veena - Golden Throne Series: Maestro S. Balachander's Desh - Part of the National Integ

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:02:10 +0000

This is a rare piece of the Legend from the National Integration Video footage of Dorrdarshan. Although this is a very small clip, his genius comes through. Some sections of the video is not aligned with the audio - and I am not able to do anything to correct it. My sincere apologies.

balachander veena - Veena S. Balachander Documentary: Part-6

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:02:08 +0000

The concluding Episode

balachander veena - Veena S. Balachander Documentary: Part-5

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:02:06 +0000

The documentary continues

balachander veena - Veena S. Balachander Documentary: Part-4

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:02:05 +0000

The documentary continues....

balachander veena - Golden Throne of the Veena Series: S. Balachander: Part-2

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:02:03 +0000

In this remarkable Kapi - one can see how the signature SB style is inevitable in bringing the bhava and depth of the raaga. Often, I hear from many Vainikas the question of why do we need to pull so much. The answer is simply this video - and, my question to every Vainika is this, "Can one produce without extensive pulling the same Gayaki depth and Gayaki intensity that SB produces here? Gayaki style is a very misused word - It somehow does not contain within is meaning the role of gayaki intensity and depth....When a Vainika says that his/her style is gayaki - he/she should pause and contenplate - does it include the depth and intensity as well?

balachander veena - Aanandamrithakarshini: Veena S Balachander

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:02:01 +0000

Amrithavarshini Muthuswami deekshithar

balachander veena - Veena S. Balachander Documentary: Part-3

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:02:00 +0000

Documentary of the greatest Veena Legend

balachander veena - Veena S. Balachander Documentary: Part-2

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:01:58 +0000

Documentary of the greatest Veena Legend. In this episode, I would like to point your attention to his Veena Playing - What a Krishna Nee Begane....He takes us all with his sheer spontaneous music....No safe route here - We all are sucked into an awesome adventure created by his genius mind....Now, how can we let this style of playing persih?

balachander veena - Veena S. Balachander Documentary: Part-1

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:01:56 +0000

A great Documentary of the greatest Veena Legend - SB. I was thrilled to find this piece recently. There are a few video recording of him on the Veena. You can see his unmatched playing....I have seen him play just once from far in Thiruvaiyaru...This will be one of my most cherished finds!! AND, I am happy to share this here.

balachander veena - Jagadodharana : Veena S Balachander

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:01:55 +0000

purandara dasa kapi

balachander veena - S. Balachander - genius on veena - raag Hamsanandhi

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:01:53 +0000

This video with pictures taken from the worldwideweb features the Side A-second track of a great, very well produced&recorded album 'The Music Of India', a mid-seventies release, however, with no mentioning of a recording date. It's an album by the legendary veena player S(undaram) Balachander (1927-1990), who was a child prodigy, a multi-instrumentalist (but the veena became his specialty and his favourite instrument) and a mostly self taught musician. The album means a lot to me, as it was the first Indian classical music record I owned (I remember I bought it together with a nice album by North Indian sitar and surbahar player Narendra Bataju). This was in 1978, I was 14 then, and this album surely was one of the great 'big bangs' in my listener's career. Of course I had already been listening to Ravi Shankar at 'Woodstock' and the 'Concert for Bangla Desh' - stuff that came to me via the record collection of an older brother - but at the time I found the music of S. Balachander far more impressive. His veena playing was simply mindblowing! Just listen and you'll understand what I mean. S. Balachander's sound is unmistakeable his own, one of the many trademarks being his unique strong 'attaque' on the veena strings, that helps him to bring out the depth and intensity of a raag. His veena playing is unmatched and always 'avant garde' in the true sense of the word. I'm sure evry musician involved in improvising music -from whatever genre of music or cultural background...

veena balachandar - Golden Throne of the Veena Series: S. Balachander: Part-1

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:59:31 +0000

This is a clip of Veena S. Balachander taken from the documentary produced by Doordarshan. Despite the clip being very short, one is awed by the dexterity, immense creativity and the singularly magnificent playing of Veena S. Balachander. In him, we find the rare combination of genius of various kinds - musical, mathematical (for his explorations in symmetries is remarkable) and the innovator. Often these days, the Vainikas lament about the lack of popular interest in the Veena. Are we meeting the golden standards set forth by the yesterday masters - should the reason for dwindling interest in the Veena solely be carried on the shoulders of the listeners? Can we - the Vainikas - still learn from the mastery and magnificence of these stalwarts. The Golden Throne Series is wholly dedicated to S. Balachander - as, in my opnion, there is none to even come close to his mastery of the instrument or the grandeur of his music on the Veena. We, as Vainikas, have a responsibility we have to shoulder - however daunting and painful - we should push the capabilities, horizons and the limits beyond where these stalwarts left behind. SB's videos are very rare. But, what little I have gathered from the Doordarshan documentary, I will showcase in this Golden Throne of the Veena series. If anyone has more videos of SB, please share with me and I would be delighted to extend this series for the benefit of musical posterity.