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Vocal : Sanjay Subrahmanyan Violin : H K Venkatram Mridangam : Tumkur Ravishankar KhanjirA : Guruprasanna 01.) jalajAkshi ninne ( varNam) - chakravAkam - Patnam Subramanya Iyer - Adi Talam 02.) tyAgarAja gurum AshrayE - kEdAram - M D Ramanathan - Rupakam Heard this Kriti in a live concert for the first time. (Last heard this kriti in a vintage MDR rendition). Being highly innovative, Sanjay always chooses to do something novel in his Kucheris. 03.) MandAri - Brilliant Alapanai by Sanjay- paralOka bhayamu -St. Thyagaraja - Adi tALam.Neraval & swarAms @ ‘dEva lOkamani tannukollulO tyAgarAjanuta’ 04.) kAntimati annai nI gati - kAnaDa -Adi Talam - PApanAsam Sivan. Another kriti which people have rarely rendered in concerts. mahArAjapuram Santhanam used to sing this kriti with great fervor and Sanjay's rendition reminded me Santhanam's kAntimati.

MallAdi brothers (SrirAm PrasAd and Ravi KumAr) Dr. Mysore M ManjunAth - Violin Arjun Kumar - mridangam N. Amruth - KhanjirA I try and attend as many concerts of Malladi brothers in Bangalore as possible ( Their gurus VidwAn Voleti Venkateshwarulu and VidwAn Nedunuri Krishnamurthy have been all time favorites at home.) MallAdi brothers commenced their concert with an Adi TAlam varnam in AnandaBhairavi. 2.) GajAnayu sadA Pada -Thodi - (not sure whose composition it is ?) - Adi 3.) NAgaswarAvali (GarudaDhwani) - Sripate - St. Thyagaraja - Adi Racked my brains over the identifying the ragam but was able to . Brilliant swarams by both of them. 4.) MukhAri - ksheenamai - St. ThyAgarajA - Adi 5.) Simhendramadhyamam - KAmAkshi KAmakoti Peetha Vasini - Dikshithar - Rupakam . Neraval and swarams at Nadabindu KalAswarupini katyayani. 6.) Vara RAga laya - Chenchu Kambojhi - St. ThyAgarajA - Rupakam . 7.) SAveri - Excellent alapanais by Ravi KumAr and Manjunath . DurusugA Kripa - Shyama Shastr

Am back to blogging after a hiatus. There weren't too many concerts in Bangalore since last few months (and I was busy with work too.) Unnikrishnan was accompanied by Charulatha Ramanujam on the violin, senior Vidwan A.V.Anand on the Mridangam and Srisylan on the Ghatam. List of songs rendered : 1.) SAmiNeeTodi - PantuvarAli Varnam - Adi TAlam 2.) Sugunamule - Chakravakam - St. Thyagaraja - Rupakam 3.) Varali - karunayelA kanden - St. Thyagaraja - Adi I have always liked Unni's renditions of Varali. This was no exception. The only other recording of this kriti which I have listened to is by Semmangudi SrinivAsaier. 4.) Dhanyasi - bAlakrishnaPAdamalar - PApanasham Shivan - Adi 5.) BahudAri - BrovabAramA - St. Thyagaraja - Adi Exquisite alapanai by Charulatha . 6.) KirvANi - kaligi yunte - St. Thyagaraja - Adi This was boring (only a maestro like MSS or KVN can do justice to Kirvani ) and we left after listening to it for a while.While listening to Unni's concerts I have no