Twilight Rāgs from North India

Twilight Rāgs from North India, the second album accompanying Rāgs Around the Clock, presents extended accounts of two rāgs, Bhairav and Yaman. Click on the sidebar links (or search the menu on the mobile phone version of this website) to access each of the performances.

These concert-length renditions by Vijay Rajput and accompanists exemplify the wider and deeper reaches of rāg music. Each begins with an ālāp, followed by a weighty baṛā khayāl and a fully developed choṭā khayāl. Commentary on the music can be found in section 4 of David Clarke’s book, Rāgs Around the Clock, which can be accessed from the website of Open Book Publishers at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0313.