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There are not so many videos available on Hindustani Shastriya Sangeet and they are not so easy to find.
First come the VHS tapes, the oldest support. Nowadays we have DVD and VCD - a lesser known format which I call "DVD of the poor". VCD means Video Compact Disc. It is more compressed than DVD - therefore giving a lesser quality than the former. It uses the same support as an audio CD or CD Rom (650MB or 700MB) instead of the 4,7GB of the single side/single layer current DVD, and is readable by Macs, PC and by most of today's DVD players.
Since 1987, I regularly purchased through the web, computer hardware, software, and plenty of miscellaneous items and never got cheated. These companies do deliver the goods. Therefore, you could order them on the web - by making a secured payment with your Visa card - and should be safe.
Most of Alurkar Music House videos (in NTSC or PAL) format may be purchased at Khazana's. Ali Akbar Khan's ones at his school address.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of videos you could get for the pleasure of your ears and eyes... even if VHS are very often of bad image quality - probably due to unadequate duplicating material and abusive use of long cross-dissolve transitions... an angel flies by !
Ali Akbar Khan & Swapan Chowdhury
| Hits: 2409
VHS - AMMP Alam Madina Music Productions & Scott Hall Productions - 1988
Ali Akbar Khan College of Music (exists also in DVD)
The summer solstice - 5 classical ragas
Maestro Ali Akbar Khan (sarod) & Swapan Chowdhury (tabla)
Nat Bhairav
Suha Sughrai
Misra Mand
Vindravani Sarang
Zila Kafi
Ali Akbar Khan & Swapan Chowdhury
| Hits: 2027
VHS - Sound Photosynthesis Productions - 1988
Concert at Julia Morgan Theater Berkeley California
Maestro Ali Akbar Khan (sarod)
& Swapan Chowdhury (tabla)
Vasant Mukhari
Bhairavi Bhatiyar
Ali Akbar Khan & Zakir Hussain
| Hits: 1939
VHS - Sound Photosynthesis Productions - 1987
Concert at St. John's - Part 1 - Berkeley, California
Ali Akbar Khan (sarod)
& Zakir Hussain (tabla)
Roop Manjari Malhar
Pahadi Jhinjhoti
Alla Rakha
| Hits: 1939
VHS - Digitala - Learning tabla with Alla Rakha
Alla Rakha
Instructional videotape
& a manual of drumming
and recitation
Amjad Ali Khan / Firoz Dastoor
| Hits: 1894
VHS - Alurkar Music House - Live from Savai Gandharva Festival - Pune, 1990-91
Amjad Ali Khan (sarod)
Suhag Bhairav (38:45)
Ahir Bhairav (48:34)
Firoz Dastoor (vocal)
Lalit (42:41)
Thumree (11:20)
Bhajan (09:00)
Amjad Ali Khan / Jitendra Abhisheki
| Hits: 2003
VHS - Alurkar Music House - Live from Savai Gandharva Festival - Pune, 1991
Amjad Ali Khan (sarod)
Jhinjhoti (44:22)
Gawati (20:23)
Dhun (11:21)
Jitendra Abhisheki (vocal)
Shivmat Bhairav (54:30)
Bhajan (14:00)
Bhimsen Joshi / Gangubai Hangal
| Hits: 1879
VHS - Alurkar Music House - Live from Savai Gandharva Festival - Pune, 1992
Bhimsen Joshi (vocal)
Ramkali (57:01)
Jogiya (thumree) & Bhairavi (thumree) (28:00)
Gangubai Hangal (vocal)
Bhairav (10:10)
Hindol (11:18)
Bhimsen Joshi / Girija Devi
| Hits: 1858
VHS - Alurkar Music House - Live from Savai Gandharva Festival - Pune, 1991
Bhimsen Joshi (vocal)
Asavari Todi (= Komal Asavari) (54:24)
Bhajan (15:40)
Bhajan (16:25)
Girija Devi (vocal)
Ramkali (29:35)
Thumree (10:50)
Zoola (11:00)
Tappa (06:55)
Debashish Bhattacharya
| Hits: 1896
VHS - Vestapol 13031 (1995) - Hindustani slide - Indian Classical Guitar
Debashish Bhattacharya (guitar)
& Kumar Bose (tabla)
Charukeshi (64:00)
Gujri Todi (09:50)
Kirwani dhun (05:13)
Hari Prasad Chaurasia & Zakir Hussain
| Hits: 1742
VHS - Alurkar Music House - Live from Savai Gandharva Festival - Pune, 1992
Hari Prasad Chaurasia (flute)
& Zakir Hussain Khan (tabla)
Chandrakauns (92:00)
Dhun (dadra) (16:00)