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Tanjore Viswanathan (13 August 1927 – 10 September 2002) was the grandson of Veena Dhanammal. His elder sister was the Bharatnatyam dancer Balasaraswati. His elder brother was mridangam player T. Ranganathan. He learnt flute from Tiruppamparam Swaminatha Pillai. He moved to the USA in 1966, taught at California Institute of the Arts and Wesleyan University.

The ensemble was recorded while they were all on the faculty of Wesleyan University. T. Viswanathan (flute) is joined by his brother T. Ranganathan (mridangam), V. Thyagarajan (violin) and his brother V. Nagarajan (kanjira).

Padmini Rao learnt sitar from Pramila Dagar, and vocal training from Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, and now is a student of Dr. Prabha Atre (Kirana gharana).

Harmonium: Vyasmurthy Katti; tabla: Gourang Kodical

A. Kanyakumari (violin), MKS Siva (nadaswaram), Balasayi (flute).

Habib Ali Khan Beenkar (1898-1970) was the younger brother of (according to the LP liner notes) the inventor of the vichitra veena, Abdul Aziz Khan.

tabla by Mohammed Sharif

Cousins Radha (born 1932) and Jayalakshmi (1932 - 2014), popularly known as Radha Jayalakshmi, were early vocalists in the duo singing trend in Carnatic music which started in the 1950s and includes performers like Bombay Sisters and Soolamangalam Sisters. They were students of G. N. Balasubramaniam.

Born in 1927, Himangshu Biswas was a pupil of vocalist Chinmoy Lahiri. He also plays santoor.

tabla by Sankha Chatterjee

Jahnavi Jayaprakash (1950-2002) was a Carnatic vocalist, often associated with music for classical dance. She settled in Amsterdam.

Violin: J.K. Sridhar, mridangam: B.C. Manjunath

Veena Sahasrabuddhe (14 September 1948 – 29 June 2016) was from Kanpur. She was trained in the Gwalior gharana, but like many modern classical singers borrowed from others - in her case, the Jaipur and Kirana gharanas.

Harmonium: Vishwanath Kanhere, tabla: Vinayak Phatak

A percussion academy led by T. A. S. Mani. The vocalist is R. A. Ramamani.

Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan (21 March 1939 – 16 March 2016) was from Kolkata. Wajahat Khan, born in 1977, is a sarod player and the third son of sitar and surbahar player Imrat Khan.

Tabla: Anindo Chatterjee, khurdak: Sandip Banerjee

Semmangudi Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer (25 July 1908 – 31 October 2003) was a Carnatic vocalist. Among his many teachers was a musical apprenticeship with Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer. Prominent disciples include M. S. Subbulakshmi and her stepdaughter Radha Viswanathan, T. M. Thiagarajan, and violinist T. N. Krishnan.