Harmeet Virdee on sitar with Bhupinder Chaggar on tabla - Darbar Festival 2009

Harmeet Virdee (Sitar) with Bhupinder Chaggar (tabla) - Raag Ahiri
A recital displaying serenity, vibrancy and stunningly mature improvisations. Harmeet Virdee, a young British talent plays this most iconic of Indian classical instruments, made famous by Pandit Ravi Shankar, with charismatic vibrancy and skill, matched by speed and the power of his musical strokes.

Darbar Festival 2009

Described by one artist as the G20 summit of Indian music and by World Music magazine Songlines as surely Britains best festival of south Asian music, the Darbar Festival is says arts journalist, Jameela Siddiqui a place where everyone expects and gets the highest quality performances of Indian classical music.

Indian classical music is arguably one of the most complex and complete systems of music ever developed. What began as Vedic chants several thousand years ago developed into a sophisticated musical system by the 3rd century.

The music is based on a single melody line, which is played over a fixed drone and the performance is based melodically on particular ragas and rhythmically on talas. The music has been passed down orally. Improvisation predominates and written notation, when used, is skeletal.

This series from the Darbar Festival, presented by Lopa Kothari, features ten outstanding performances from artists from the two main strands of Indian classical music, the North Indian Hindustani and South Indian Carnatic traditions.

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[darbarfestival]

Harmeet has learnt from Dharambir Singh and visiting artists including Pt Arvind Parekh, Ustad Shahid Parvez, Purbayan Chatterjee etc

Bhupinder has learnt from Pandit Sharda Sahai.

[iamforthat]

what is he doing with table ,appa ,great soundless.

[XyronHD]

wa,wa,wa

echt mooi tabla.

[Shameghazal1]

Subhanallah !!!!!!!

[dreacul]

How many times per second can a good tabla player hit with his finger????:::D

[Shabutiesam]

I'm proud to say that this is my music industry lecturer on tabla!

[bqureshi21]

that is one of the most amazing tabla solos ive ever heard... soooo fast.

[KeepItRealPete]

fantastic tabla by Bhupinder Chaggar!! Jeete Raho!!

[tuheentabla]

waah.......kya baat hai...

[theanhadnaad]

who did they both learn from???