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

Musicians:
- Shivkumar Sharma (santoor)
- Anindo Chatterjee (tabla)
- Roopa Panesar (tanpura)

Raag Jog; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Night

“Before I started playing santoor, I was trained as a vocalist and a tabla player and I feel t...

Recorded at Darbar Festival on 25 Oct 2018, at London’s Barbican Centre

Musicians:
- Rupak Kulkarni (bansuri)
- Ojas Adhiya (tabla)

Raag Jog; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Night

“The bansuri is just a simple piece of bamboo. But it brings many benefits, not only for your ears but for your entire body an...

Recorded by Darbar on location in India

Musician:
- Kamal Sabri (sarangi)

Raag Shree; Thaat: Poorvi; Samay: Late Afternoon

The word sarangi translates to ‘one hundred colours’, said to reflect its expressive versatility. It is thought to have evolved from Rajasthani folk instruments.

Kamal Sa...

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

Musicians:
- Roopa Panesar (sitar)
- Sukhvinder Singh (tabla)
- Gunwant Kaur (tanpura)

Raag Puriya; Thaat: Marwa; Samay: Night

Roopa Panesar plays a courageous choice of raag Puriya, which is wrapped up in complex lay...

Recorded at Darbar Festival on 21 Sep 2014, at London’s Southbank Centre.

Musicians:
- Niladri Kumar (sitar)
- Subhankar Banerjee (tabla)

Raag Bhimpalasi; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

Niladri Kumar’s virtuosic take on the afternoon Raag Bhimpalasi, running up and down his sitar’s fretboard at...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2017 on 8th October, at Milton Court Concert Hall, London.

Musicians:
- Kaushiki Chakraborty (Patiala khayal)
- Satyajit Talwalkar (tabla)
- Ajay Joglekar (harmonium)
- Keertan Rehal & Kiruthika Balakrishnan (tanpuras)

Raag Puriya; Thaat: Marwa; Samay: Night

Kaushik...

Recorded for Darbar on location in India in 2015.

Musicians:
- Jayanthi Kumaresh (saraswati veena)

Raga Karnataka Shuddha Saveri

Jayanthi Kumaresh gives a superb unamplified demonstration of her Saraswati veena, playing the intricate Raga Karnataka Shuddha Saveri.

Jayanthi Kumaresh’s saraswat...

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

Musicians:
- Rajan & Sajan Mishra (khayal vocal)
- Kumar Bose (tabla)
- Dharam Nath Mishra (harmonium)
- Priya Sharma (tanpura)
- Seetal Dhadyalla (tanpura)

Raag Megh; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Monsoon

“We belong to...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2009 on 3rd April, at London’s Southbank Centre

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

Aruna leads a 5-piece Carnatic group through the ambiguous colours of Teerth...

Recorded at Darbar on 20 Sep 2014 at London’s Southbank Centre.

Musicians:
- Jyoti Hegde (rudra veena)
- Surdarshan Chana (jori)
- Debipriya Sircar (tanpura)

Raag Poorvi; Thaat: Poorvi, Samay: Late Afternoon

Jyoti Hegde is one of only a handful who has mastered the rudra veena. Here she uses t...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2013, on 24th April, at King's Place London.

Musicians:
- Dr. Kadri Gopalnath (saxophone)
- Jyotsna Srikanth (violin)
- Bangalore Praveen (mridangam)
- RN Prakash (ghatam)
- Kaviraj Singh (tanpura)

Raag Hamsadhwani; Thaat: Bilawal; Samay: Night

We are happy to ...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2013, on 19th September, at London's Southbank Centre.

Musicians:
- Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam)
- Jayanthi Kumaresh (saraswati veena)
- RN Prakash (ghatam)
- Mithila Sarma (tanpura)

The darbar team presents this special 'best moments' video capturing some of...

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

Musicians:
- Ganesh Rajagopalan (violin)
- Kumaresh Rajagopalan (violin)
- Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam)
- RN Prakash (ghatam)

‘Ragamalika’ translates to ‘garland of ragas’. Let South India’s finest violin brothers lead you through...

Recorded at Darbar Festival on 11 Sep 2016, at London’s Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Musicians:
- Anindo Chatterjee (tabla)
- Kumar Bose (tabla)
- Dharamnath Mishra (harmonium)

Two of the world’s most accomplished tabla players join forces for a one-off London concert, dueling over teental using idea...

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)

The Lalgudi siblings attack a fierce thillana composition by their father Lalgudi G Jayaram...

Recorded for Darbar on 4 Apr 2008, at the Phoenix, Leicester.

Musician
- Irshad Khan (surbahar)

Raag Darbari; Thaat: Asavari; Samay: Midnight

Irshad Khan plays the surbahar (bass sitar), using its thick, deep-toned timbres to explore Raag Darbari, harking back to when musicians played for king...

Recorded by Darbar in 2017, on location at The Rajbari Bawali, India

Musicians:
- Budhaditya Mukherjee (sitar)
- Soumen Nandy (tabla)

Raag Miyan ki Malhar; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Night or Monsoon

Sitar maestro Budhaditya Mukherjee’s spectacular rendition of the rain-bringing Raag Miyan Ki Malhar,...

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

Musicians:
- Parveen Sultana (khayal vocal)
- Mukundraj Deo (tabla)
- Tanmay Deochake (harmonium)
- Srutti Suresan (tanpura)
- Priya Sharma (tanpura)

Raag Puriya Dhanashree; Thaat: Poorvi; Samay: 15:00 - 18:00 Late Afte...

Recorded at Darbar on 17 Sep 2016, at London’s Southbank Centre

Musicians:
- Shubha Mudgal (khayal)
- Aneesh Pradhan (tabla)
- Sudhir Nayak (harmonium)
- Priya Sharma (tanpura)
- Seetal Dhadyalla (tanpura)

Raag Bhimpalasi; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

“My gurus...were all liberal thinkers and...

Recorded for Darbar on 16 Sep 2016, at London’s Southbank Centre

Musicians:
- Matthew Barley (cello & artistic director)
- Fraser Trainer (composer)
- Jayanthi Kumaresh (Carnatic veena)
- Ghatam Karthick (Carnatic ghatam)
- Rakesh Chaurasia (Hindustani bansuri)
- Niladri Kumar (Hindustani sitar)...

Recorded by Darbar on 22 Jun 2017 at Italy’s Ravenna Festival:
- Ranjani & Gayatri (vocals)
- Jyotsna Srikanth (violin)
- Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam)
- Giridhar Udupa (ghatam)

Raga Chandrakauns
Raga Madhukauns

“I present two ragas at the same time, through a device called murchana…” The sing...

Recorded for Darbar in 2015, Guptipara, West Bengal
- Debasmita Bhattacharya (sarod)

Raag Bhimpalasi; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

Debasmita Bhattacharya is a sarodia from the new generation. Her rendition of the afternoon Raag Bhimpalasi is romantic yet sombre, demonstrating both patience and...

Recorded for Darbar in 2015, on location in India

Musician:
- Bickram Ghosh (tabla)

Modern master Bickram Ghosh believes that “what a tabla player knows is truly established through his solo work”. See him play unaccompanied in this lively demo clip.

Born in Kolkata to esteemed tabla artist Sh...

Recorded for Darbar on 21 Sep 2014, at London’s Southbank Centre
- Dr Prabha Atre (khayal)
- Bharat Bhushan Goswami (sarangi)
- Ajay Joglekar (harmonium)
- Sanju Sahai (tabla)
- Chetna Banawat (khayal & tanpura)
- Gunwant Kaur (surmandal)
- Priya Parkash (tanpura)

Raag Bhairavi; Thaat: Bhairavi;...