I recently attended a concert by Ghulam Abbas Khan of the Rampur Sahaswan Gharana. Overall, it was quite good - however, there were too many ghazals for my liking (my Urdu level is intermediate at best, and I could understand most of the shayari - which means that it wasn't that upmarket !).
The only thing I remember is that I had to ask the sound controller to turn down the volume. The hall was such that there was no need for microphones - we were sitting in a small group and the music was way too loud for my taste. Among the ragas he sang were Purvi and Madhuwanti - both good. He did not bore us with long winded bada khayal, but kept to the chota khayal, and plenty of ghazals, most of them in Khamaj and Kirwani.
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