Utsyo Chakraborty
Utsyo Chakraborty
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Mahabhūta Symphony (2024)
I. Prithvi (Earth) [0:07]
II. Apas (Water) [14:08]
III. Agni (Fire) [20:28]
IV. Vayu (Wind) [29:23]
V. Akasha (Ether) [38:30]
After composing in a relatively international style for some time, I felt a growing need-fueled by requests from performers and listeners-to express myself through an idiom inspired by the rich and diverse culture of my homeland. However, I wanted to approach this in a way different from typical world music. I tried to infuse my love for music with a modernist flavour with the thoughts and ideas that permeate my Indian way of life. "Navrasa" for piano, based on the nine emotions in Indian performing arts, was my first step in this direction.
The concept of the pancha mahabhūta has always been a part of my consciousness. According to Hindu philosophy, any human or cosmic creation is a holistic unification of five great elements: earth, water, fire, air, and ether. Reflecting on these ideas inspired me to conceive a large-scale orchestral work. This initial conception eventually developed into a symphony, my first attempt in six years (my previous attempts in the genre have been suppressed).
'Mahabhūta Symphony' was composed between June and December 2024.
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Mahabhūta Symphony - 5: Akasha (2024)
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Mahabhūta: great elements (Sanskrit) Akasha: ether/sky (Sanskrit) After composing in a relatively international style for some time, I felt a growing need-fueled by requests from performers and listeners-to express myself through an idiom inspired by the rich and diverse culture of my homeland. However, I wanted to approach this in a way different from typical world music. I tried to infuse my ...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Mahabhūta Symphony - 4: Vayu (2024)
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Mahabhūta: great elements (Sanskrit) Vayu: air (Sanskrit) After composing in a relatively international style for some time, I felt a growing need-fueled by requests from performers and listeners-to express myself through an idiom inspired by the rich and diverse culture of my homeland. However, I wanted to approach this in a way different from typical world music. I tried to infuse my love for...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Ātman, for string quartet (2024)
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Ātman: self, soul (Sanskrit) Composed between August and October 2024. When I was invited to contribute a memorial work honoring the Indian soldiers who lost their lives under British command, Sarojini Naidu's evocative poem 'The Gift of India' immediately came to mind. Her words became a central catalyst for my creative process: "Gathered like pearls in their alien graves, Silent they sleep by...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Mahabhūta Symphony - 3: Agni (2024)
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Mahabhūta: great elements (Sanskrit) Agni: fire (Sanskrit) After composing in a relatively international style for some time, I felt a growing need-fueled by requests from performers and listeners-to express myself through an idiom inspired by the rich and diverse culture of my homeland. However, I wanted to approach this in a way different from typical world music. I tried to infuse my love fo...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Mahabhūta Symphony - 2: Apas (2024)
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Mahabhūta: great elements (Sanskrit) Apas: water (Sanskrit) After composing in a relatively international style for some time, I felt a growing need-fueled by requests from performers and listeners-to express myself through an idiom inspired by the rich and diverse culture of my homeland. However, I wanted to approach this in a way different from typical world music. I tried to infuse my love f...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Mahabhūta Symphony - 1: Prithvi (2024)
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Mahabhūta: great elements (Sanskrit) Prithvi: earth (Sanskrit) After composing in a relatively international style for some time, I felt a growing need-fueled by requests from performers and listeners-to express myself through an idiom inspired by the rich and diverse culture of my homeland. However, I wanted to approach this in a way different from typical world music. I tried to infuse my lov...
Utsyo Chakraborty and Yashb Gunaeskar: in conversation
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I was kindly offered to be interviewed by the young Indian pianist-composer and alumni of the KM Music Conservatory, Yashb Gunaeskar, for an article he would be writing on Indian composers. Here is our conversation, which was recorded in one take (it's not perfect - I apologize for my slightly wobbly setup!) on the morning of 13th July 2024. Here are some of the things we talked about: 00:00 In...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Graduation Fanfares, for three clarinets, spatially separated (2024)
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On the very last day of my Masters course at the Indian Statistical Institute, some of my curious friends asked me: "now that your exams are over for a long time, why don't you write a special piece commemorating the occasion?" My initial idea was to write a fanfare for three spatially separated trumpets, in the late serial style of Stravinsky (a sort of convocation piece). As I was sketching t...
Utsyo Chakraborty: An Anniversary Fanfare, for large orchestra (2018, rev. 2024)
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'An Anniversary Fanfare', written for the pearl (30th) marriage anniversary of my parents, was composed as a part of a symphony (when I would compose symphonies, all of which are now withdrawn) in 2018. The earlier piece was re-orchestrated, and subsequently reworked into this current work. The work, in F major, is in two parts: a "fanfare theme" which is developed with repetition through a con...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Refrain - Fanfare, for piano and tape (2024)
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Dedicated to Hyun-Mook Lim, on her 30th birthday. I have always had a very warm and friendly feeling for Hyun-Mook: she was the pianist to give me my 'big break' (if I've ever had one) with her splendid performance of my Refrain-I (for piano and sine wave sounds). Her realization of my work (which I myself had given up on due to its almost impossible genesis) opened my mind to the possibilities...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Vamsi, for flute, viola and harp (2024)
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I am not a particular believer in 'inspiration' as the sole factor contributing to a successful piece of music, but the muse struck me in creating 'Vamsi' (for flute, viola and harp) after being profoundly affected by a painting of Krishna playing the flute by Varuna Sarswat. The work, quickly composed in the evening of 13th May 2024, is a homage to one of Debussy's late masterpieces, the Sonat...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Refrain III, for piano and MIDI tape (2024)
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Refrain III, the third in my series of 'Refrain' pieces, was composed between 1st and 12th April 2024. The first piece in the installment (composed in 2019) was an interaction between piano and sine wave sounds, the second (from 2021) was an experiment in asynchronicity between two pianos (or four voices). This work, forty exchanges between the piano and MIDI orchestral sounds, is an investigat...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Three Romances for Orchestra (2023)
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Three Romances for Orchestra Composed between July-October 2023. 1. I lie here thinking of you [0:05] 2. I see a wild civility [5:04] 3. When I die, I want your hands on my eyes [11:17] Composed as a sequel to my Three Instances for Orchestra, the difference between these pieces and its predecessor is exactly in the title (despite the formal similarities: a moderately paced first movement, a fa...
Utsyo Chakraborty: Navrasa, nine emotions for piano (2022)
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Navrasa was commissioned by Indian virtuoso pianist Pervez Mody. Pervez ji called me up one evening from his residence in Lahr, Germany and requested from me a sizeable piece which would reflect on our common Indian heritage, albeit with a contemporary colour. Finding the suggestion interesting, I immediately embarked on a recce to search for a reasonable “Indian” basis. A sudden flash of recol...
Utsyo Chakraborty: String Quartet in Six Shadows (2024)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: String Quartet in Six Shadows (2024)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Kioku, in memory of Seiji Ozawa (2024)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Kioku, in memory of Seiji Ozawa (2024)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Sestina, for three instruments (2020)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Sestina, for three instruments (2020)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Song of a Tree (2021, rev. 2024)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Song of a Tree (2021, rev. 2024)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Songs of Instagram, for voice and percussion (2023)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Songs of Instagram, for voice and percussion (2023)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Due frammenti, for vibraphone (2019)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Due frammenti, for vibraphone (2019)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Slow Waltz, for piano (2023)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Slow Waltz, for piano (2023)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Wavemaker, for electronics (graphical score) [2022]
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Wavemaker, for electronics (graphical score) [2022]
Utsyo Chakraborty: Waltz in Claret, for piano (2023)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Waltz in Claret, for piano (2023)
Utsyo Chakraborty: "Sounds and scents swirl in the evening air", for ensemble (2023)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: "Sounds and scents swirl in the evening air", for ensemble (2023)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Boat Music, for piano (2022-23)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Boat Music, for piano (2022-23)
Utsyo Chakraborty: String Quartet in Six Scenes (2022-23)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: String Quartet in Six Scenes (2022-23)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Hoedown Throwdown, for woodwind quartet (2023)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Hoedown Throwdown, for woodwind quartet (2023)
Utsyo Chakraborty: Maquettes, for piano (2020) [world premiere, 2023]
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Utsyo Chakraborty: Maquettes, for piano (2020) [world premiere, 2023]
Utsyo Chakraborty: ...warum..., Canon for five instruments (2023)
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Utsyo Chakraborty: ...warum..., Canon for five instruments (2023)

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  • @StockyScoresRaoraPantheraFC
    @StockyScoresRaoraPantheraFC ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Namasté! Beautiful Symphony!

  • @onlykarlhenning
    @onlykarlhenning วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is beautiful, congratulations!

  • @tomasjara5717
    @tomasjara5717 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @MicoAquinoComposer
    @MicoAquinoComposer 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Stunning! <33

  • @aseempawaskar
    @aseempawaskar 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This has to be one of the greatest pieces written in the recent history of art music. Please get it performed Utsyo, I beg of you

  • @Martinpapercraft_6813
    @Martinpapercraft_6813 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is highly emotional but it doesnt sound classical😅

    • @UtsyoChakraborty
      @UtsyoChakraborty 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Martinpapercraft_6813 It isn’t ‘classical’ in the Haydn-Mozart sense of the word at all.

    • @Martinpapercraft_6813
      @Martinpapercraft_6813 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@UtsyoChakrabortyWhat is the main melody? Where is the point of string quartet? Ridiculous dynamic marking, it has no right notes, sometimes it plays a random high notes, fifths out of nowhere omg its terrible, it's not even called "music" it's sounds

    • @UtsyoChakraborty
      @UtsyoChakraborty 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Martinpapercraft_6813 You’re free to believe as you wish.

  • @kickerofelves23
    @kickerofelves23 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wonderful! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @yash_agrahari
    @yash_agrahari 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Goosebumps!🥺

  • @rodterrell304
    @rodterrell304 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    21st Century Piano, Nice!

  • @stephenjablonsky1941
    @stephenjablonsky1941 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This a major achievement. I think of this as your doctoral dissertation. You are quickly becoming the Toru Takemitsu of India.

  • @anandseshadripianist_compo3196
    @anandseshadripianist_compo3196 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ❤...

  • @stefan.kraus-composer
    @stefan.kraus-composer 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Absolutely great!!!

  • @klscomus
    @klscomus 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Now that this symphony is complete it is time to get it performed by a real orchestra and chorus! Superb, Utsyo, and I hope to conduct it at some point!

  • @evangelos6509
    @evangelos6509 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A masterpiece, Bravo!!!!!!!!

  • @brianrichardcohn2159
    @brianrichardcohn2159 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very good. :)

  • @basedscores
    @basedscores 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think you completed the cycle, and by that I safely say, it's a great symphony, painting the portrait across of streams of air through music. And most importantly, I'm nowhere infront of your musical knowledge, but as a person who took a small musical masterclass from the master, which is you, I smell Schnittke all over the place, which made me like this even more.

  • @Martinpapercraft_6813
    @Martinpapercraft_6813 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is so bad, I can't even hear the main melody

    • @UtsyoChakraborty
      @UtsyoChakraborty 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Martinpapercraft_6813 I agree - it’s no good. But this was written quite a while back.

  • @tavitenorclef
    @tavitenorclef 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    yumy

  • @JVdSlice
    @JVdSlice 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fabulous! A master!

  • @beth_levin_piano
    @beth_levin_piano 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Masterful!

  • @yeetthebeet
    @yeetthebeet 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    awesomeee

  • @KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner
    @KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice.

  • @woodenspoon324
    @woodenspoon324 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do you have any resources which explains your working methods? im particularly interested in any pitch generative methods of yours!

    • @UtsyoChakraborty
      @UtsyoChakraborty หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@woodenspoon324 You may contact me at cutsyo@gmail.com and we may have a chat!

  • @woodenspoon324
    @woodenspoon324 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, this is beautiful work! im a fan!

  • @mirrors1
    @mirrors1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Grande Utsyo, awesome!

  • @pianistmusic
    @pianistmusic หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic Symphony!!! Congrats and Bravo!!!!

  • @NickWilde-n2d
    @NickWilde-n2d หลายเดือนก่อน

    Elevator music from hell

  • @thekathal
    @thekathal หลายเดือนก่อน

    woah this is awesome, could i maybe commission a few pieces from you?

    • @UtsyoChakraborty
      @UtsyoChakraborty หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thekathal You absolutely could! Reach out to me at cutsyo@gmail.com

  • @jameshelgeson4668
    @jameshelgeson4668 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is great!

  • @stephenweigel
    @stephenweigel หลายเดือนก่อน

    stirring work, Utsyo!!!

  • @jean-christopheheckers2867
    @jean-christopheheckers2867 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating. Great, great work!

  • @anandseshadripianist_compo3196
    @anandseshadripianist_compo3196 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @wftjet
    @wftjet หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is so odd my youtube app keeps playing it in background even when I switch apps on my phone, which normally it does not do

  • @flagelumdei8138
    @flagelumdei8138 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bravo! Which program do you use?

    • @UtsyoChakraborty
      @UtsyoChakraborty หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is MuseScore 4.4.3

    • @AndrewKosinskicomposer
      @AndrewKosinskicomposer 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The recording sounds incredible. What do you use for playback? Or is this a live orchestra? I honestly can’t tell!

  • @shadmium3471
    @shadmium3471 หลายเดือนก่อน

    oh yes

  • @MicoAquinoComposer
    @MicoAquinoComposer หลายเดือนก่อน

    Stunning!! ❣

  • @DRORELIMELECH120V
    @DRORELIMELECH120V หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very good !

  • @anastasiavinogradova_composer
    @anastasiavinogradova_composer หลายเดือนก่อน

    💗

  • @goncalves.composer
    @goncalves.composer หลายเดือนก่อน

    👏👏👏👏👏

  • @MiamiVirtue
    @MiamiVirtue หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great work, Utsyo.

  • @stephenjablonsky1941
    @stephenjablonsky1941 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A fascinating score that owes its roots to Schoenberg's Summer Morning by the Lake

  • @samirpathan5535
    @samirpathan5535 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This keeps getting better! 😀 Like a title. Beautiful melodies moving like Samir 🤭( I'm also the part of wind). And damn you are working fast.

  •  หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yeees! Been waiting so long for this! By the way, if you could check the mail i sent you, it would be great!

  • @JEricVaughn
    @JEricVaughn หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hardcore trolling

  • @marshallmkerr
    @marshallmkerr หลายเดือนก่อน

    Over the nearly 60 years since my teens, nothing has more uplifted me than the contributions Beethoven, Haydn, Bartók, and Berg made to this form; so it is not idle talk for me to simply thank you for this sensitive, compelling and beautiful manuscript. Long life and every possible success going forward!

  • @marshallmkerr
    @marshallmkerr หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a 72-year-old, who by macabre coincidence also suddenly and shockingly lost a deeply-loved companion when we were both 21 - in 1973 - my heart goes out to you. The grief will leave a scar on your spirit that will never completely fade. Also by seemingly remarkable coincidence, it has been precisely the Mukhya Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita that have most sustained and inspired me over the decades - among all the world's Scriptures, whose essential wisdom can be edifying even to atheists, who reflect on them with an open heart and mind. Throughout my life, one particular extract from Chandogya has never left me: "Do we wish for our beloved, among the living or among the dead, or is there ought else for which we long, yet for all our longing, do not obtain? - lo, all shall be ours if we but dive deep within, even to the lotus of the heart, where dwells the Lord. Yea, the object of every right desire is within our reach, though unseen, concealed by a veil of illusion." I salute you across the decades and share your tears.

  • @marshallmkerr
    @marshallmkerr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The anchoring nobility in the viola throughout is magnificent. May Dharmic spirits never again be compelled to sacrifice in Abrahamic conflicts.

  • @alejandromejiasanchez1646
    @alejandromejiasanchez1646 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful piece, very great construction of melodic lines! Congratulations!

  • @tomasjara5717
    @tomasjara5717 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 this could be the movement for a great string quartet!!

  • @beth_levin_piano
    @beth_levin_piano 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very moving!