The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

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Franz Liszt was a composer-pianist (largely). He transcribed Beethoven’s symphonies for piano. Beethoven was a composer. 

Wagner and Tchaikovsky were composers. Haydn was a composer and a teacher to Beethoven. Knowlede about Liszt’s transcriptions here.

I see.

The idea of Franz Liszt to play Ludwig Van Beethoven on piano was to show that Beethoven had a soft touch in all the symphonies. Franz’s piano played the part of bringing to notice the absolutely sublime part of the …

Kartikey Sehgal

I hope you enjoy listening to this nazm as I have enjoyed composing and singing it. The Lahori audience was refined and appreciative. From an official source:

Kartikey Sehgal sings his composition of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem, “Jab Teri Samandar Aankhon Main” (In Your Ocean Eyes) at a concert in Lahore organised by Moneeza Hashmi of ‘Faiz Ghar‘ and recorded by Hum TV.

This is an audience recording and the actual recording would be available soon, including all ghazals/nazms sung …

Kartikey Sehgal

There are other heartaches in the world than those of love – so said poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, from his poem “Mujhse Peheli Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob na Maang” (Don’t ask me for the love I once gave you, my love).

I have set this and other poems to music and they shall be sung by Seema Sehgal (blog link). I may sing two self-composed nazms.

The program is this Saturday (April 7) in Lahore, Pakistan. You are welcome.

This evening …

Kartikey Sehgal

 Here is a gift. Selected works of ‘Father of the Symphony’, Joseph Haydn. These are my selections  from his 106 symphonies. This man made many, many symphonies.

 Music fans have complained that Haydn is boring and ‘repetitive’. He wrote for the court and for  entertainment. He wrote so that the princes and the common man could identify and move along and  not be challenged or shocked. ‘But’ he also composed masterpieces that remind you of the style of  Mozart and Beethoven, who had …

Kartikey Sehgal

My vocals for the song ‘Goriye Ho Meri Raniye Ho’ (alongwith Seema Sehgal) from the album “Tale of a Virgin River”. 
 
Singers: Seema Sehgal & Kartikey Sehgal 
Composed by Seema Sehgal 
Lyrics: Yash Sharma
Arranged by: Sandesh Shandilya
From the Dogri Album ‘Tale of a Virgin River’ 

Goriye ho meri raniye ho by kartikeys

Kartikey Sehgal

Sung during the September program in Mumbai… my compositions of Faiz’s ‘Chopin ka Nagma’ and Ahmad Faraz’s ‘Tere Kareeb Aake’… sung by the mellifluous Seema Sehgal.

Savage storm and without storm. Unshaven or impeccably dressed. Amidst the clinker of construction sites and folk songs of sparrows.

Enjoy listening to them as I have enjoyed making them.
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Chopin ka Nagma
Writer: Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Composer: Kartikey Sehgal
Singer: Seema Sehgal

Chopin ka Nagma by kartikeys

Tere Kareeb Aake …

Shaival Thakkar

On the 21st of September, I read on a fan-site that the musical group REM has decided to call it a day. After 31 years of making some great songs and performing all around the world, they have decided with mutual consent to break up. On the day I read this news, there were some 20,000 comments on that story from fans across the world.

The next day, the number of comments went up to 40,000 and more.

However, most people here in …

The Young India

From the YouTube Channel of The Young India. Listen to this song here: (Hum Jung Na Hone Denge)

Seema Anil Sehgal sings her composition of ‘Hum Jung Na Hone Denge’ written by Atal Behari Vajpayee in her live concert titled ‘Lahoo Ka Rang Hai’.

The concert was performed across the country to promote peace and harmony between India and Pakistan.
The chorus includes Kartikey Sehgal, Parvati Sehgal, Anand Lalwani and another singer whose name I do not recollect currently.

The Young India

‘The Young India’ has a YouTube Account to upload songs and other original works of art. Every upload should find a mention on this website with a translation and other information (if available).

We start with one of our outright favourites. “If the stars wander from their path—is heaven Yours or mine?” (Link to the song)

Ghazal: Agar Kaj Rau Hain Anjum (If the stars wander from their path)

Poet: Allama Iqbal

Composer-Singer: Seema Sehgal

Album: Sitaron Se Aage Jahan

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Shaival Thakkar and
Kartikey Sehgal

In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, ‘Everybody Hurts’, a popular song by the alternative rock music group R.E.M. was used in a fund raising concert for the victims’ families.

In this video, music aficionado Shaival Thakkar talks about the charm of R.E.M. and his love for alternative music. This video also suffices as an introduction to alternative rock music. If you like meaningful lyrics and ‘soft’ music—relatively softer than the strains of hard rock music—then you may like alternative …