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Visit www.skyarts.co.uk/darbar for broadcast schedule. Shashank Subramanium (Carnatic Flute) and Purbayan Chatterjee (Sitar) with Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam) and Sukhwinder Singh - Pinky (tabla) Purbayan Chatterjee, who plays the sitar with a maturity beyond his years, takes the stage with Shashank, a child-prodigy of the south Indian flute to present a performance of speed, virtuosity and mercurial invention that fuses the Indian classical traditions from the north and south traditions of the sub-continent. 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 ...