Lalgudi Jayaraman - Bhajan in Raga Pilu

Mysore Palace by night, October 2000.

Bhajan in Raga Pilu by Lalgudi Jayaraman.

We end this holiday music collection with a traditional closing composition by one of South India's greatest performing violinists, here playing with his son and daughter. The raga selected is a very unusual one (it blends what in Western music terms would be called major and minor scales) and involves a number of "harmonies" that are usually two instruments simply playing at separations of exactly one octave. Regardless, its earnestness and clarity/approachability of harmony make it the perfect piece to bring our holiday mix together and to its finish.