At the Darbar Festival 2023, tabla virtuoso Ojas Adhiya and harmonium maestro Chinmay Kolhatkar delivered an insightful lecture-demonstration on the art of accompanying ghazals with the tabla. Their presentation delved into the nuanced techniques and rhythmic patterns essential for enhancing the ...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2022, at the Barbican Centre, London.

Musician:
- Rakesh Chaurasia (bansuri)

Raag Kirwani; Samay: Midnight

A special digital concert filmed at Darbar Festival. Rakesh Chaurasia is a true exponent of the therapeutic impact of the bansuri, “The notes have to do someth...

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...

Recorded at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 23rd February 2024.

Musicians:
- Abhisek Lahiri (Sarod)
- Pandit Sanju Sahai (Tabla)

Raag Kaunsi Kanada, Thaat: Asavari, Samay: Midnight

Abhisek Lahiri is a gharana-blending young sarod player, who fuses ideas from the Shahjahanpur, Maihar, and Senia Bang...

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...

Born out of the parent scale Kafi, Raag Shahana is an upper-tetra chord dominant raga that draws its haunting strains from Bhimpalasi and Bageshree. The Darbar team filmed Anupama Bhagwat in an isolated outdoor location in Bangalore, India, playing this midnight raga. Bhagwat plays the jod, a sec...

Recorded at 533 Souls Festival in 2021, at The Curve Theatre, Leicester

Musicians
- Kirpal Panesar (dilruba)
- Surdarshan Chana (tabla)

Raag Jog, Thaat: Kafi, Samay: Night
Raag Kafi, Thaat: Kafi, Samay: Night

533 Souls Festival celebrates mental well-being in the post-pandemic world throug...

Recorded on location in Singur, West Bengal, India.

Musician:
- Mita Nag

Raag Suha Kanada; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Late Morning

Filmed on location at Singur, West Bengal, Mita Nag performs Suha Kanada. Nag is the sixth generation of sitarists in her family - a lineage including Manilal Nag (her fa...

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 at Darbar Festival 2021, on 21st October at the Barbican Centre, London.

Musicians:
- Ken Zuckerman (sarod)
- Surdarshan Singh (tabla)

Recorded at St Martins In The Fields, London, during a candlelight concert on 23rd November 2023

Musicians:
- Roopa Panesar (sitar)
- Gurdain Rayatt (tabla)

Raag Shahana Kanada; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Midnight

An unforgettable raga night with candlelight, on the iconic sitar and tabla. Panesar is...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2012 on 29th September at the Purcell Room at London's Southbank Centre.

Musicians:
- Shruti Sadolikar (Jaipur-Atrauli gharana)
- Vishwanath Shirodker (tabla)
- Murad Ali (sarangi)
- Tanmay Deochake (harmonium)
- Ranjana Ghatak & Shobana Patel (tanpuras)

Raa...

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

Musicians:
- Pravin Godkhindi (bamboo flute)
- Pandit Supreet Deshpande (tabla)

Raag Jog; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Night

Raag Jog is dominant with gliding notes and its application of the pure and flat thirds (shu...

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2022, on 15th October, at the Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican.

Musicians:
- Eeshar Singh (Santoor)
- Yashwant Vaishnav (Tabla)

Raag Kaunsi Kanada, Thaat: Asavari, Samay: Midnight

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

Recorded at Darbar Festival 2022, on 13th October at Milton Court, Barbican.

Musicians:
- Sabir Sultan Khan (sarangi)
- Aneesh Pradhan (tabla)

Raag Jog; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Night

Let's journey back in time to Darbar Festival 2022 when we were graced by the exceptional talent of Sabir Sultan...