Raag Hindol, Thaat Kalyan, Samay midnight to early morning

Musicians:
- Uday Bhawalkar (dhrupad vocal)
- Pratap Awad (pakhawaj)
- Meghhana Bhawalkar (tanpura and vocals)
- Kirit Singh (tanpura and vocals)

Bhawalkar Ji's profound voice and masterful command over the raga’s meditative essence, B...

Ustad Bahauddin Dagar is considered the Jedi (selfless) maestro of Indian classical music. This film stitches together a series of Dagar’s interviews and performances filmed over a decade. Digging through the Darbar archive footage Nick Morchang, a creative film maker edits these into an insightf...

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

Musicians:
- Wasifuddin Dagar (dhrupad vocal)
- Sukhad Munde (pakhawaj)
- Priya Prakash and Gunwant Dhadyalla (tanpuras)

Raag Ahir Bhairav, Thaat: Bhairav, Samay: Early Morning
Raag Miyan Ki Todi, Thaat: Todi, Samay...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2011, on 24th April, at Phoenix Theatre, Leicester.

Musicians:
- Pandit Uday Bhawalker (vocal)
- Sukhvinder Singh (Jori)
- Ranjana Ghatak (tanpura)
- Gunwant Kaur (tanpura)

Raag Bhimpalasi; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

Uday Bhawalkar stirred the audience with his ...

Raag Bhimpalasi, Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

Musicians:
- Uday Bhawalkar (dhrupad)
- Sukhvinder Singh (jori)
- Ranjana Ghatak & Gunwant Dhadyalla (tanpura)

In an inspiring rendition of Raag Bhimpalasi, Uday Bhawalkar brings the manifold facets of dhrupad alive at the Darbar Festival 2011. ...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2017, on 11th November, at Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London.

Musicians:
- Pandit Ram Kumar Mallick (Darbhanga dhrupad)
- Samit Mallick (Darbhanga dhrupad)
- Surdarshan Chana (jori)
- Seetal Dhadyalla (tanpura)
- Keertan Reha (tanpura)

Raag Lalit; Thaat: P...

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

Musicians:
- Uday Bhawalkar (dhrupad)
- Sukhvinder Singh (jori)

Raag Bhimpalasi; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

Bhawalkar’s exploration of Bhimpalasi is intense. He plunges into the lower notes and glides to the higher ...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2007, on 13th April, at the Phoenix Theatre Leicester.

Musicians:
- Pandit Prem Kumar Mallick (dhrupad)
- Prashant Mallick (dhrupad)
- Ravi Shankar Upadhyay (pakhawaj)
- Debipriya Das & Gunwant Kaur (Tanpuras)

Music Pieces:
- Raag Shudh Sarang, Thaat: Kalyan, Samay: ...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2017

Musicians:
- Pandit Ram Kumar Mallick (Darbhanga dhrupad)
- Samit Mallick (Darbhanga dhrupad)
- Surdarshan Chana (Jori)
- Seetal Dhadyalla (tanpura)
- Keertan Reha (tanpura)

Raag Bhairav; Thaat: Bhairav; Samay: Morning

We are excited to release the Director's C...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2014, on 19th September, at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London.

Musicians:
- Pandit Premkumar Mallick (dhrupad)
- Prashant Mallick (dhrupad)
- Surdarshan Chana (jori)
- Gunwant Kaur (tanpura)
- Priya Parkash (tanpura)

Raag Saraswati, Thaat: Kalyan, Samay: ...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2007, at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester.

Musicians:
- Pandit Prem Kumar Mallick (Darbanga dhrupad)
- Prashant Mallick (Darbanga dhrupad)
- Ravishankar Upadhyay (pakhawaj)
- Debipriya Das & Gunwant Dhadyalla (Tanpuras)

Raag Bhimpalasi, Thaat: Kafi, Samay: Afternoo...

Filmed and recorded live at Bawali Rajbari, Kolkata, in 2017.

Musicians
- Ram Kumar Mallick (vocal)
- Samit Mallick (vocal)

Raag Bhoop Kalyan, Thaat: Kalyan, Samay: Evening

Raag Bhoop Kalyan is also known as Shuddh Kalyan. Its ascending notes have the same notes as Raag Bhopali and its descen...

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

Musicians:
- Uday Bhawalkar (dhrupad)
- Sukhvinder Singh ‘Pinky’ (jori)
- Ranjana Ghatak & Gunwant Dhadyalla (tanpura)

Raag Bhimpalasi; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

Bhawalkar belongs to a handful of dhrupad singers w...

Recorded for Darbar Festival in 2016, on location in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Musicians:
- Ram Kumar Mallick (dhrupad vocal)
- Samit Mallick (dhrupad vocal)

Raag Bhimpalasi; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

It is said that the ancestors of the Mallick family, Darbhanga court musicians, once e...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2009

Musicians:
- Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar (vocal)
- Mohan Shyam Sharma (pakhawaj)
- Laurence Bastit (tanpura)
- Francine Mercier (tanpura)

Raag Khamboji

Dagar immerses himself in Khamboji, developing the jor and jhala with from delicate to monumental gamaks highli...

Recorded on location in Mulshi, Maharashtra, India, in 2015.

Musician:
- Pelva Naik (vocal)

Raag Maru

Set against the sunset over Lake Mulshi in Maharashtra, Pelva Naik sings Raag Maru which is considered as a Raāgputra of Malkauns but opinions differ among scholars. It's not sung much being t...

Recorded on location at The Rajbari Bawali, Kolkata, West Bengal

Musicians:
- Pandit Ramkumar Mallick
- Samit Mallick

Raag Multani; Thaat: Todi; Samay: Afternoon

Pandit Ramkumar and Samit Mallick are leading exponents of the Darbhanga dhrupad court music tradition, named for a former state nea...

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

Musicians:
- Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar (dhrupad vocal)
- Sukhad Munde (pakhawaj)
- Priya Prakash (tanpura)

Raag: Ahir Bhairav, Thaat: Bhairav, Samay: 6 am to 9 am

Ahir Bhairav is a blend of two ragas – Bhairav, an ancient sc...

Recorded at Ravenna Festival, on 24th June 2017, at Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna, Italy.

Musicians:
- Ustad Bahauddin Dagar (rudra veena)
- Pelva Naik (dhrupad vocal)
- Sudarshan Chana (jori)
- Seetal Dhadyalla and Kruthika Nadaraja (tanpuras)

Raag: Vardhani, alap, jod and jhalla, Dhamar in 14 bea...

Recorded on location in Mulshi, Maharashtra, India

Musician:
- Pelva Naik (dhrupad vocal)

Raag Jog; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Night

Young dhrupad singer Pelva Naik sings a candlelit solo rendition of Raag Jog, replete with slow slides, meditative microtones, and patient melodic elaboration. At age 1...

Ustad Bahauddin Dagar plays the Sitar Been at London's Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the Musical Wonders of India project.