It's music to ears as AIR releases CDs of great musicians

Chennai, Mar 8 (UNI) All India Radio (AIR), which had a very rich collection of recordings of great musicians and instrumentalists in their archives, today released the archival recordings in the form of CDs and cassettes for the benefit of music lovers.

Akashvani Sangeet CDs and casettes of great masters of Carnatic music -- T R Mahalingam (flute) and Maharajapuram V Santhanam (Vocal)-- were released by Music Academy President N Murali at a function organised by Prasar Bharati and AIR here this evening.

Dr N Ramani, National Artist, received the first copies of CDs and cassettes. The function was followed by a carnatic vocal concert by eminent vocalist P Unnikrishnan.

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