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Walter Kaufmann (1 April 1907 – 9 September 1984) was a composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, librettist and educator. Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia (at that time part of Austria-Hungary), he trained in Prague and Berlin before fleeing the Nazi persecution of Jews to work in Bombay until Indian Independence.

Imrat Khan (17 November 1935 – 22 November 2018) was an Indian sitar and surbahar player and composer. He was the younger brother of sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan. His family style, known as the Imdad Khani gharana (school), or Etawah Gharana, was named after a village outside Agra where Imdad Khan lived.

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Vocalist Karaikal R. Jaisankar is an alumnus of Kalakshethra, an arts and cultural academy dedicated to the preservation of traditional values in Indian art and crafts, especially in the field of Bharatanatyam dance and Gandharvaveda music. Based in Chennai, India.

Steve Gorn (born in NYC in 1947) learnt bansuri under Gour Goswami of Kolkata. He is one of the few westerners recognized to have mastered Indian Classical Music.

Jayanthi Kumaresh comes from a lineage of musicians who have been practicing Carnatic music for six generations. She is the niece of violinist Lalgudi G. Jayaraman.

Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam was born on 23 July 1947 in Madras, India. He is an Indian violin prodigy who made his first public appearance at age 6. (His younger brother is violinist L. Shankar.) Dr. L. Subramaniam plays violin in the Carnatic style.

Vishnu Govind Jog (22 February 1922 – 31 January 2004) was from Mumbai. He is credited for introducing violin in Hindustani music (although violin had been used in Carnatic music since the early-mid 1800s).

According to textual references, the violin was first introduced into Carnatic music of south India in the court of Travancore during the regime of Maharajah Swati Tirunal (1813–1846). Vadivelu and Baluswami Dikshitar were acclaimed as the renowned performers on the violin. The violin was a direct import from Europe, but in India it differed in tuning, execution and presentation, and it adapted itself well to Indian music. In Carnatic music, the violin has established itself as the best possible melodic support for vocalists.

"Sangeet Sangam" is a 6-volume series of CDs of Dr. L. Subramaniam performing duets with various leading Hindustani musicians. Dr; L Subramaniam released them all on his own Viji Records label, but the Sony label in India also released them.

This is the edition I have.

Musafir was conceived in France 1995 by Hameed Khan, a tabla player. Musafir is a gathering of Rajasthani musicians, combining elaborate rhythms, Muslim qawwali chant, North Indian raga and the passionate songs and devotional dances from gypsy culture.

Nithyasree Mahadevan (born 25 August 1973), also referred to as S. Nithyashri, is a Carnatic vocalist. Her paternal grandmother, D. K. Pattammal, and her grand-uncle, D. K. Jayaraman, were prominent Carnatic vocalists who were established disciples of Ambi Dikshithar, Papanasam Sivan, Koteeswara Iyer, T.L.Venkataramayyar and others. Her maternal grandfather was the mridangam maestro, Palghat Mani Iyer.

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Bismillah Khan (born Qamaruddin Khan, 21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006), is credited with elevating the shehnai to the classical concert stage. His father was a court musician employed in the court of Maharaja Keshav Prasad Singh of Dumraon Estate in Bihar.

Mallikarjun Mansur (31 December 1910 – 12 September 1992) was an Indian classical singer from Karnataka, a vocalist in the khyal style in the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana.

Another great singer from the Dharwad region of Karnataka.

This is where I got the track. Apparently it WAS issued on CD (on Evening Ragas).

Ramesh Mishra (Varanasi, India, 2 October 1948 - New York, U.S., 13 March 2017) comes from a family of sarangi players and studied from an early age from a number of his older relatives. He was also a disciple of Ravi Shankar.

Rezwana Choudhury Bannya is a Bangladeshi singer and academic. She is an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, the songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore. In 2021 she completed her research on Rabindra Sangeet at the University of Dhaka, for which she received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.