Essential listening lists?

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krishnaniyer
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Post by krishnaniyer »

Hi all,

I am a brand new member. I have been listening to Carnatic / Classical music for a while now but just realized that the music somehow calms my nerves every morning that I made it a routine to drive to work with various kinds of carnatic music.

Technically, I might not "yet" know much but the important factor is that the music has far reaching effects. I will be visiting India in May (wow.. what great weather to visit!) and wanted to find out list of singers and essential CDs to buy.

(not meant to rank them.. just my random list.)

1) Sanjay Subramaniam -
2) Priya Sisters - I listen to them almost everyday and they've done really well in slokams
3) Madhurai Mani iyer - I've become a great fan of Late Mani iyer since I listened to his songs - any you liked?
4) Bombay Jayasree
5) Of course Nithyasree Mahadevan
Any other singers you would list?

Sincerely

Krish

vasanthakokilam
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Joined: 03 Feb 2010, 00:01

Post by vasanthakokilam »

Krish:

It is hard to come up with a list of CDs for someone else since the tastes and preferences are subjective and vary so much. I am sure other forumites will suggest their personal favorites and you can pick and choose from those lists.

To your list, I will add Neyveli Santhanagopalan.

Also, you can consider some instrumentalists too: Lalgudi, M. Chandrasekar, MSG, Mali and Ramani, Kalpagam Swaminathan, S. Balachandar

Another angle to look at it is the ragas and songs ( Varnam, Smaller length songs, Bigger length songs, thillanas and thukkadas ) that you like and then pick out CDs that contain those by the artists whose voices and tones that appeal to you.
Last edited by vasanthakokilam on 12 Apr 2008, 05:34, edited 1 time in total.

VK RAMAN
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Post by VK RAMAN »

visit the following:

www.raaga.com - carnatic vocal
www.geetham.net - carnatic
http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivk ... index.html
http://www.swathithirunal.in/linkfiles.htm
http://www.kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Classical/home/
http://home.sprynet.com/~dsivakumar/music/intromus.htm

These sites should help you to listen to several artists and then narrow down the artists you like to listen.

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