Sultan Khan (1940-2011) was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He was a sarangi player belonging to Sikar Gharana. He was a sought-after accompanist as well as solo artist, and one of the founding members of the Indian fusion group Tabla Beat Science.

with Zakir Hussain on tabla

"Bombay" Jayashri Ramnath was born in Kolkata in 1964 or 1965. She is a Carnatic vocalist, singer and musician, trained by Lalgudi Jayaraman and T. R. Balamani. She has also received training in Hindustani music from K. Mahavir Jaipurwale and Ajay Pohankar. Plus she studied bharatanatyam dance and learned to play the veena.

with Usha Rajagopalan (violin), K.V. Prasad (mridangam), E.M. Subramaniam (ghatam)

Raghunath Seth (1931-2014) was born in Gwalior. He was a bansuri student of Pannalal Ghosh.

Kashinath Mishra accompanies on tabla.

recorded in Srinagar, Kashmir. Ghulam Qadir Butt plays the rebab, the folk ancestor of the sarod.

Recorded live in January 2000, with Embar S. Kannan (violin) and Neyveli R. Narayanan (mridangam).

Uday Bhawalkar was born in Jaora, Madhya Pradesh in 1966. He received training in dhrupad from Fariduddin Dagar and Zia Mohiuddin Dagar.

with Manik Munde on pakhawaj

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Dr. Natesan Ramani (1934 – 2015), commonly known as N. Ramani or N. Flute Ramani, was an Indian Carnatic flautist. Ramani was born into a family of flautists, learning first from his grandfather, Aazhiyur Narayanaswami Iyer. He later became a disciple of his maternal uncle and eminent flautist, T. R. Mahalingam.

"Garbhapurivasa" is a pseudonym for a quartet of 19th Century composers from Karur, Tamil Nadu.

Lalith J. Rao was born in Bangalore in 1942, and passed away June 3rd, 2026..

She started learning music from Rama Rao Naik, of the Agra gharana. She also completed her Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Communication Engineering, but gave up that career for music.

with Vyasmurthi Katti (harmonium), Gourang Kodical (tabla), Bharathi Prathap (support vocal)

The Hyderabad Brothers are D. Raghavachari and D. Seshachari. They got their initial formal training from their father Daroor Ratnamacharyulu. Their mother Daroor Sulochana Devi was also a Carnatic classical musician.

violin: TKV Ramanuja Charyulu, mridangam: Vellore Ramabhadran, kanjira: V. Nagarajan

T. Padmini is a veena player and vocalist from Visakhapatnam, a port city in Andhra Pradesh. She has a PhD in music.

Amit Chatterjee is the son and disciple of Sankha Chatterjee.

Recorded live in Chennai (Sri Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha) in December 2003, with Nagai Muralidharan (violin), Trichy B. Harikumar (mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (kanjira) and R.V.P. Balachandran (morsing).

Dhananjay Kaul is from Kashmir, and sings classical and light classical music in the Patiala and Sham Chaurasia gharanas.

(accompanying musicians were not identified)

Ranjani and Gayatri are sisters who were born into a musical family in 1973 and 1976 respectively. They started their training on violin, but have been singing together since 1997. They have been students of P.S. Narayanswamy.

Recorded live in Chennai in December 2003, with H.N. Bhaskar (violin), Manoj Siva & K. Arun Prakash (mridnagam), and Guruprasad (ghatam).

"Garbhapurivasa" is a pseudonym for a quartet of 19th Century composers from Karur, Tamil Nadu.