Behag Gat

Behag Gat is a raga-based instrumental composition performed by Ustad Allauddin Khan Saheb. The track appears as the twelfth entry on the album Prof. Enayet Khan & Ustad Alauddin Khan, released on September 30, 2020 under the Megaphone label. The recording is distributed in digital media format and spans a duration of 3 minutes and 9 seconds.

The album compiles archival or previously unreleased material featuring Ustad Allauddin Khan, a foundational figure in Hindustani classical music and the creator of the Maihar gharana. The track Behag Gat exemplifies his mastery of the sarod and the behag raga, a melodic framework characterized by its use of shuddha dhaivat (natural sixth) and komal nishad (flattened seventh) in descent. The composition follows the gat structure, a fixed melodic phrase in instrumental music designed for improvisational elaboration.

The album title references Prof. Enayet Khan, likely a collaborator or disciple, though the precise nature of his contribution to this specific release remains undocumented in available sources. The label Megaphone specializes in reviving historical recordings, but production details such as recording date, session musicians, or original medium are not specified in the release metadata. The track stands as a representative example of Khan’s pedagogical and performance legacy, influencing generations of Indian classical instrumentalists.