[4] Among his works as a performer and recording artist in India, he played with sitar virtuosos Ravi Shankar[4] and Debu Chaudhuri.
[3] In 1974, Shankar chose Lal to join his Music Festival from India revue, which was the largest Indian orchestra to perform in Europe up to that time.
[10] His fellow performers included several leading figures of Indian classical music[11] – among them, Alla Rakha, Lakshmi Shankar, Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Sultan Khan and L.
The debut performance by the Music Festival ensemble, filmed at London's Royal Albert Hall on 23 September 1974,[10] was released on DVD in 2010, as part of Shankar and Harrison's four-disc box set Collaborations.
[1] Five years later, he was honoured with a national Sangeet Natak Akademi Award,[20] the highest recognition afforded artists in India.