Rag Bhairav - Alap

Ustad Mohi Baha’uddin Dagar performed Rag Bhairav – Alap as the opening track on the 1994 album The Tradition of Dhrupad on Rudravina 1. The recording features a 33-minute-50-second alap in the morning raga Bhairav, rendered on the rudra vina, a fretted lute associated with the Dagar tradition of dhrupad. Makar Records released the album on CD.

The album documents Dagar’s interpretation of dhrupad, a vocal and instrumental genre in Hindustani classical music known for its meditative, slow-tempo explorations of raga. The recording captures the artist’s use of meend (glissando) and gamak (ornamentation) on the rudra vina, an instrument historically linked to the Dagar vani (style) of the Dagar family. No additional artists or accompanists appear on this track.

The release date of The Tradition of Dhrupad on Rudravina 1 is confirmed as 1994, though specific month or day details remain undocumented. The album title indicates a focus on the rudra vina repertoire, but the total number of tracks in the series or subsequent volumes is not provided in available sources. The label Makar Records specialized in classical and traditional Indian music during the 1990s, though further catalog details for this release are limited.