Recorded at Darbar Festival on 4 Apr 2009, at London’s Southbank Centre.

Musicians:
- Sindhu & Indu Pathmabaskaran (Carnatic vocals)
- Kiruthika Nadarajah (violin)
- Aravindhan Baheerathan (flute)
- Senthuran Premakumar (mridangam)
- Dharmesh Parmar (tabla)

A set of young UK-based Indian classi...

An impromptu performance by Debasmita Bhattacharya with Patri Satish Kumar and Ghatam Udupa, recorded at Ravenna Festival, Italy in 2017.

Musicians:
- Debasmita Bhattacharya (Sarod)
- Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam)
- Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam)

Raag Jog; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Night

An impromptu ...

Recorded at Darbar Festival on 27 Oct 2018, at London’s Barbican Centre.

Musicians:
- Lalgudi GJR Krishnan (violin)
- Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (violin)
- Trichy Sankaran (mridangam)
- Giridhar Udupa (ghatam)

Two expert South Indian percussionists trade energetic rhythms as part of a tani avartanam...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2011, on 24th April, at London’s King’s Place.

Musicians:
- Roopa Panesar (sitar)
- Sukhvinder Singh (tabla)

Raag Puriya; Thaat: Marwa; Samay: Night

“Growing maturity has drawn me into music that is devotional and spiritual, such as Raga Puriya, which is my current ...

Recorded at Darbar Festival on 27 Apr 2014, at Embrace Arts, Leicester.

Musicians
- Shahbaz Hussain (tabla)
- Rekesh Chauhan (harmonium)

Shahbaz Hussain demonstrates the versatility of North Indian percussion, exploring the influence of folk rhythms on the Punjab gharana of classical tabla.

Sh...

Recorded for Darbar Festival on 19 Sep 2013, at London’s Southbank Centre

Musicians:
- Jayanthi Kumaresh (saraswati veena)
- Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam)

A saraswati veena performance of Kapi, live in London, showcasing the raga’s devotional mood and unique phrasings, enabled by the presence ...

Recorded by Darbar in 2014, on location in Bangalore, India.

Musicians:
- Pravin Godkhindi (bansuri)

Raag Madhuvanti; Thaat: Todi; Samay: Late Afternoon

Experimentally-inclined flautist Pravin Godkhindi returns to Hindustani music’s ancient roots in the natural world, performing a solo renditi...

Patiala singer Kaushiki Chakraborty discusses the role of the tanpura, ubiquitous as the rich sonic backdrop to Indian classical performances of the North and South.

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

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2010, on 4th April, at London’s King’s Place.

Musicians:
- Venkatesh Kumar (khayal)
- Satyajit Talwalkar (tabla)
- Murad Ali (sarangi)
- Tofail Ahmed (harmonium)

Raag Multani; Thaat: Todi; Samay: Afternoon

North Indian vocal master Venkatesh Kumar brings powerful me...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2017, on 9th November, at London’s Sadler’s Wells.

Musicians:
- Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam)
- Tavil Triplicane Sekhar (thavil)
- Amrit Nataraj (kanjira)

Three superb exponents of Carnatic rhythm trade off and join forces - Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam), Tavil Tr...

Recorded at Darbar Festival on 22 Sep 2013, at London’s Southbank Centre.

Musicians:
- Yogesh Samsi (tabla)
- Tanmay Deochake (harmonium)

Yogesh Samsi performs an intricate solo, complete with rapid spoken bols - the language of the tabla. Yogesh learned from legendary master Alla Rakha for ove...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2011, on 24th April, at London’s King’s Place

Musicians:
- Roopa Panesar (sitar)
- Sukhvinder Singh (tabla)

Raag Puriya; Thaat: Marwa; Samay: Night

“Growing maturity has drawn me into music that is devotional and spiritual, such as Raga Puriya, which is my current f...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2013, on 21st September, at London’s Southbank Centre.

Musicians:
- Manjusha Kulkarni-Patil (khayal)
- Akram Khan (tabla)
- Tanmay Deochake (harmonium)
- Priya Parkash (tanpura)
- Unnati Dasgupta (tanpura)

Raag Ramkali; Thaat: Bhairav; Samay: Morning

“Hindustani ...

Recorded at Darbar Festival on 26 Oct 2018, at London’s Barbican Centre.

Musicians:
- Malladi Sreeramprasad (vocal)
- Malladi Ravikumar (vocal)
- Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (violin)
- Trichy Sankaran (mridangam)
- Giridhar Udupa (ghatam)
- Priya & Srutti Suresan (tanpuras)

The Malladi Brothers use H...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2013, on 21st September, at London’s Southbank Centre.

Musicians:
- Anupama Bhagwat (sitar)
- Gurdain Rayatt (tabla)

Raag Jhinjhoti; Thaat: Khamaj; Samay: Night

“So exhilarating has been the beauty of my journey in the realms of music, that the destination is no l...

Recorded at the Darbar Festival 2008 on 4th April, at the Phoenix Theatre
in Leicester.

Musicians:
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam (carnatic vocal)
- Santhanam Vardarajan (violin)
- Neyveli Venkatesh (mridangam)
- RN Prakash (ghatam)

Sanjay Subrahmanyan performs RTP in Raga Nattakurinji.

Sanjay Subrahm...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2016, on 16th September, at London’s Southbank Centre

Musicians:
- Rakesh Chaurasia (bansuri)
- Yogesh Samsi (tabla)

Raag Jog; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Night

Rakesh Chaurasia summons Raag Jog’s state of enchantment, elucidating fierce rhythmic lines with extraordinary br...

Recorded at Darbar Festival on 4 April 2008, at Leicester’s Phoenix Arts.

Musicians:
- Rakesh Chaurasia (bansuri)
- Yogesh Samsi (tabla)

Rakesh Chaurasia plays a rare raga, Prabhateshwari, created by his uncle and guru Hariprasad. It is said to blend the early morning Ahir Bhairav with the late...

Recorded for Darbar Festival 2016 on 17th September, at London’s Southbank Centre

Musicians:
- Jayanthi Kumaresh (saraswati veena)
- Aruna Sairam (vocal)
- Jyotsna Srikanth (violin)
- Nevyelli Venkatesh (mridangam)
- Ghatam Karthick (ghatam)
- Kiruthika Nadarajah (tanpura)
- Mithila Sarma (tanpu...

Recorded at Darbar Festival on Sun 28 Oct 2018, at London’s Barbican Centre.

Musicians:
- Shahid Parvez (sitar)
- Ojas Adhiya (tabla)

Raag Piloo: Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

“My involvement in music is so much that I do not think of anything else...I do not believe I can live a better life.”...

Recorded by Darbar on location in Mulshi, India.

Musicians:
- Arshad Khan (esraj)

Raag Bhairavi; Thaat: Bhairavi; Samay: Morning

Arshad Khan is a rare modern exponent of the esraj, a bowed instrument from Bengal which can mimic the cry of the human voice with startling accuracy.

Arshad Khan i...

Recorded for Darbar in 2014, on location in Bangalore, India.

Musician:
- Anupama Bhagwat (sitar)

Raag Shahana; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Midnight

“So exhilarating has been the beauty of my journey in the realms of music, that the destination is no longer important” (Anupama Bhagwat)

Anupama Bhagwa...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2009, on 3rd April 2009, at the Purcell Room at London's Southbank Centre.

Musicians:
- Aruna Sairam (vocals)
- Jyotsna Srikanth (violin)
- Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam)
- RN Prakash (ghatam)
- Priya Parkash (tanpura)

Kalinga Nartana Tillana

The esteemed Carnatic v...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2007, on 15th April, at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester.

Musicians:
- Begum Parveen Sultana (Patiala gharana)
- Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (Tabla)
- Chiranjib Chakraborty (Harmonium)
- Gunwant Dhadyalla (Tanpura)
- Nina Burmi (Tanpura)
- Ranjana Ghatak (Tanpura)
- Debipr...