Together with tabla-player
Ustad Zakir Hussain
, India's best-known flutist expands at length on the popular night melody,
"Raag Chandrakauns,"
following it with a briefer pastoral dhun,
"Dadra Dhun."
The 90-minute performance of "Chandrakauns," far more than earlier recordings, reveals the enrichment of
Chaurasia's
style of the heterogeneous flute traditions he has studied, a model of integration without pastiche. As the performance nears its climax, the interplay between
Chaurasia
and
Zakir Hussain
becomes particularly powerful. ~ John Storm Roberts