Let's journey back in time to Darbar Festival 2023 when Tabla Prince" Ustad Tari Khan, a trailblazing tabla player known for insightful ghazal accompaniment – that swoon worthy genre synonymous with emotional depth and lyrical beauty.

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Though he has accompanied the lik...

Dr Prabha Atre had captivated audiences with a refined style, covering ragas, khayal, tarana, thumri, ghazal, and bhajan.

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Prabha Atre did not originally plan to pursue a musical career. But at the age of eight, when her mother was ill, a friend suggested classical si...

Let's journey back in time to Darbar Festival 2021 when we were graced by the exceptional talent of Kaushiki Chakraborty, she sang Raag Abogi.

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Kaushiki Chakraborty’s astonishing khayal vocal technique is the result of years of intense training. She spent much of her c...

Let's journey back in time to Darbar Festival 2022 when Rajrupa Chowdhury mesmerized the audience with her amazing talent - here is a snippet of her interview.

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Let's journey back in time to Darbar Festival 2022 when we were graced by the exceptional talent of Sarod Maestro Rajrupa Chowdhury, she sang Raag Dipawati.

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Chowdhury is one of India’s finest and mature sarod maestras making her UK debut. Indulge in the deep lilting ...

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An unforgettable raga night with candlelight, on the iconic sitar and tabla. Panesar is one of the world’s finest sitar maestra's. Panesar brings new energy to this special concert with her masterful interpretation of Indian ragas. Panesar takes you on a true and epic ...

Captivating sublime music of sarod by Abhisek Lahiri and the tabla by Sanju Sahai.

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An unforgettable raga night with candlelight, on the iconic sarod and tabla.
Recorded at St Martins In The Fields 2024

Abhisek Lahiri is a gharana-blending young sarod player, who fu...

Pandit Kaivalya Kumar Gurav is an offspring of generations of talented musicians. The unflinching melody of his soft voice straddles an enviable range of four octaves. He is highly regarded for his commanding and spiritual presentation of khayal.

As the soft glow of candlelight illuminates the stage, enchanting melodies of the violin and tabla intertwine, weaving a tapestry of musical enchantment. In this intimate setting, we invite you to embark on a journey of soul-stirring rhythms and transcendent melodies, guided by the masterful arti...

As the soft glow of candlelight illuminates the stage, enchanting melodies of the violin and tabla intertwine, weaving a tapestry of musical enchantment. In this intimate setting, we invite you to embark on a journey of soul-stirring rhythms and transcendent melodies, guided by the masterful arti...

An unforgettable raga night with candlelight, on the iconic sarod and tabla.
Recorded at St Martins In The Fields 2024

Abhisek Lahiri is a gharana-blending young sarod player, who fuses ideas from the Shahjahanpur, Maihar, and Senia Bangash traditions. Early training under his father Pandit Alo...

Raag Kaushik Dhwani was previously known as Bhinna Shadaj. ‘Bhinna’ means differentiated and ‘Shadaj’ means the first note or Sa. Pandit Shivkumar Sharma performs a lighter piece based on this raga. He bases the main melodic lines on Kaushik Dhwani and introduces an element of surprise in almost ...

Captivating sublime music of santoor by Eeshar Singh and the tabla by Yashwant Vaishnav.

An instrument brought into the Indian classical form by Pandit Shivkumar Sharma half a century ago, his student Harjinder Matharu has produced one of the finest young Bradford born emerging young talents, Ee...

We are excited to release the Director's Cut for Pandit Ram Kumar Mallick and Samit Mallick's glowing and extraordinary rendition of dhrupad at the Darbar Festival 2017.

The Darbhanga tradition of dhrupad gayaki combines melody, rhythm and poetry to create a powerful style. It follows two schoo...

Basant means ‘spring’, the season of hope, rejuvenation and mirth. Apart from being a seasonal raga that conveys these emotions, Basant is also associated with love and romance that inevitably arouses feelings of longing, pain and devotion.

Sameehan Kashalkar’s stunning performance of Raag Bas...

Tabla Prince, Ustad Tari Khan, a trailblazing tabla player known for insightful ghazal accompaniment – that swoon worthy genre synonymous with emotional depth and lyrical beauty.

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Though he has accompanied the likes of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Mehdi Hassan, the ...

Rimpa Siva was a child prodigy, an amazing talent who defied gender roles to become a role model of the tabla at a young age. Siva was all of 5 when she listened to her father, Swapan Siva, teaching all the boys who came to their residence to learn this art. He had initially expected his daughter...

Arati Ankalikar is a stellar vocalist who straddles classical and light music with dynamism. While she has bagged many awards in India as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, her thoroughness as a classical artist is awe-inspiring to the world.

A swaggering ‘chaiti’ - ‘Chait Maas Bolele Koyeliya...

Shashwati Mandal upholds the finest aspects of the Gwalior gharana, the oldest surviving style of khayal singing. She was born into a family of successful musicians - her grandfather Balabhau Umdekar 'Kundalguru' was a Scindias court musician in pre-Independence times.

On her Uk debut concert in...

Recorded for Darbar during the 2023 Festival

Musicians:
- Debjit Patitundi (Tabla)
- Sarwar Hussain Khan (Sarangi)

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This performance went off with the intensity and dazzle of a rocket. In 2010, Pandit Venkatesh Kumar hadn’t received his visa till a couple of days before his performance. His flight landed half a day prior to his going on stage, bringing the nail-biting situation to rest.

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The primal sounds of the rudra veena comes alive in the hands of Hegde as she micro bends the raga (melody) notes.

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Dhrupad is the foremost improvisational classical system from India, rooted in its micro tonal slow to fast development. The primal sounds of the rudra ...

Renowned for the lyrical luminosity and purity with which they continue to present Carnatic music to audiences around the world, Ranjani and Gayatri’s performance from this Darbar festival 2015 video is a firecracker that will be remembered for years to come.

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This performance surpasses all and perches itself on the top layer of Darbar’s presentations because of the uncompromising way Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee immerses himself into the awakening of the Ragas’ emotions and the way he delivers them as a representative of the Imdadkhani gharana.

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