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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...

Yesterday I had the rare privilege to attend a chamber concert by veteran vocalist Sangita KalAnidhi Smt. R. Vedavalli. She was accompanied by Smt. Charulatha Ramanujam on the violin and Shri Anoor A. Sarma on the Mridangam. I have always been a die-hard fan of her music (do check out older blogs of mine for more details ) and didn't want to miss this opportunity. I am attaching details of the artistes by pasting the original invite from Essae Music foundation. Vocal support was provided by her senior disciples Smt Sumitra Vasudev and Smt. Sumathi. 1.) SarasiJAkshi - Varnam in Sri RAgam 2.) Sariyevvare - Shriranjani - St. Thyagaraja - Adi 3.) Entara - Haraikambhoji - St. Thyagaraja - Adi (Neraval and swarams at SheshuduShivuniki) 4.) praNatArTiharAya namastE vara - sAmantAm Muthuswamy Dikshithar - Adi - This was the first time I heard this kriti and had to refer to my book on Dikshithar kritis on getting home to identify the rAgam. 5.) brOvavammA tAmasamElEbirAnabrOvavammA - Ma...

I saw this mail on the sangeetha priya forum : "Dear rasikas, I have uploaded the concert of Sri TNS held yesterday at Sree Ramaseva Mandali, Bangalore. Date: May 7th 2008 Vocal - T N Seshagopalan Violin - H K Venkataram Mridangam - Guruvayur Dorai Ghatam - M A Krishnamurthy 01 ata tala varnam - kalyAni 02 bhuvinidAsuDanE - srIranjani 03 muddumOmu - sUryakAntam - 04 endukku dayarAdurA - thODi 05 slOkam - rAgamAlikA and shObhane - pantuvarALi 06 nagumOmu galavAni - madhyamAvathi 07 virutham and rAma manthrava - jOnpuri 08 vadana sukhaja - mAnd 09 mangaLam Location: http://sangeethamshare.org /krishna/TNS-Ramaseva-Mandali/" Adding my reply to this mail: Download this concert at your own risk or if if you want to have a hearty laugh.TNS was in worst form and we were forced to walk out of the venue in less than an hour (as did many others in the audience.) I might sound sarcastic but I guess he was trying to set a Guiness Record for maximum times somebody goes off key in a live p...

Vocal recital by Neyveli Santhanagopalan Violin - Charulata Ramanujam Mridangam - K.V.Prasad Khanjira - B.N.Chandramouli I've always been a fan of Neyveli Santhanagopalan and regularly watch his music lessons on Jaya TV. He sang just 4 songs during the 2 hrs. I was present at the venue but everyone of them was well sung. 1.) Karunimpa - Sahana Varnam 2.) Meru Samana - Mayamalavagowla -St. Thyagaraja- Adi - Neraval and swarams at "shObhillu kanaka bhUSaNamula" 3.) Niravati SukhadaRavichandrika - St. Thyagaraja - Adi Tala 4.) Meenakshi meMudam Dehi - purvi Kalyani (gamakakriya) Dikshithar - Adi - neraval and swarams at "madhumadamOdita hRdayE sadayE " Mayamalavagowla and Purvikalyani were extremely beautiful. His was one of the best concerts I heard at Ramaseva Mandali this year

Sunday Morning , 13th April, 2008 - Vocal - Smt Parassala Ponnammal Violin - Dr Jyotsna Srikanth Mridangam - Sri Ravishankar Sharma Ghatam - Sri Dayananda Mohite My first impression on seeing Smt. Parassala Ponnammal was of a grandma with a sweet smiling face. She is one of Semmagudi SrinivasIyer's senior disciples and blessed with a rich, deep and sweet voice which belies her age. (She is almost 85) I am of the opinion that vocalists like T.N.Sheshagopalan, whose was the most dismal perfomance at the RamaNavami festival this year(more on that later), ought to listen to veterans like her to know what Shruti Sudhdham is all about. My grandma was an avid fan of her music and used to listen to her performances on AIR regularly. There were hardly 10-15 people in the audience and I was saddened at the like warm support provided by Bangalore audiences to such a senior artiste. It was their loss anyways as they missed one of the best concerts at the Ramavanami festival. 01 Varnam - ...