Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande sings a beautiful evening raag at London's Southbank in 2018

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma performs Raag Puriya Kalyan in this stunning evening raga with tabla accompaniment by Satyajit Talwakar.

Sahana Banerjee explores Raag Yaman in this 8 minute 44 second presentation of Darbar’s On Location series. Sahana Banerjee is an exponent of the Rampur Senia Gharana and has learned Sitar from her father, Pt. Santosh Banerjee who held an important position as faculty at the Ravindra Bharati Uni...

Watch the unparalleled sitar of Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan as he performs Raag Yaman at the 2018 Darbar Festival

Abhisek Lahiri is a gharana-blending young sarod player, who fuses ideas from the Shahjahanpur, Maihar, and Senia Bangash traditions. Abhisek Lahiri plays the auspicious Raag Malkauns, said to have been composed by the goddess Parvati to soothe Lord Shiva’s tandav dance of destruction.

Ustad Khan represents an unbroken lineage of 7 generations of sitar and surbahar players. His father is the legendary Ustad Imrat Khan, a surbahar maestro and his uncle is none other than Ustad Vilayat Khan. He performs a raga that is regarded as the king of all melodies in Indian classical music...