Best Vocal - Violin - Mridangam Combination

[MaheshS]

With all these great examples of great combinations, I could not resist posting an example what is NOT a good combination (an example of what a violinist ought not to do). The excellent rendition by Nagamani is totally mauled by the violinist (no idea who it is).
In spite of the violinist, i listen to this track quite often - Nagamani Srinath has given both the raga and the composition a unique interpretation; even the start of the alapana leaves you wondering where she is going..

https://archive.org/details/NagamaniSrinathDharmavathi

W.O.W. What a Dharmavathi, alapana, song selection, diction, neraval and swarms at Krishna Krishna, all top top quality, and even more impressive, that she made me mentally ignore the cat screaming that was the violin and just listen to her. As I said, WOW. That is a track that I would've normally expected from Varsha Ji, as he has this habit of producing anything from 10 seconds to x hours bits that will surprise and stay with [haunt] you for life Like the above!

And I did think it was him till I was replying and noticed Awesome shanks, thank you!

[Sreeni Rajarao]

Mahesh,
Varsha avaru has indeed shared this before. My guess is that Shanks is re-sharing it here in this thread.

[K Nagarajan]

Ref.Post 48 Semmu86

Thanks for the reference to this wonderful concert.

The joy of listening doubles (!) when it is pointed out by another rasika.

This concert is available in sangeethapriya.org at

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/kasturi/ ... J_TS_1978/

[varsha]

http://www.sangeethapriya.org/Downloads/tvs/mckrm/
vvs at his best
mind blowing accompaniment.vvs is egging tvs on, with silken touches.tvs , who needs little egging on. a great night at academy

[bilahari]

Arvind, thanks for the link to that Voleti concert. TS's accompaniment is especially spellbinding.

Here are a couple of my VVS favourites:
1. a nI maDi challaga with MDR (don't know the mrudangam vidwan's name), with an extraordinary alapanai filled with nidAnam and bhAvam, keeping with MDR's style. His accompaniment for the kriti and swaras is also on point. The bonus is some MDR humour interspersed.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/jsgqbp

2. An RTP in shankarAbharaNam with SSI and UKS (I think it's UKS). VVS is just amazing throughout - his thicker tone fits so well with SSI's timbre, and his elongated phrases with SSI's own singing. This concert is one of my all time favourites.
Ragam: https://www.sendspace.com/file/si5agb
Thanam: https://www.sendspace.com/file/55878z
Pallavi: https://www.sendspace.com/file/2t0g2f

[semmu86]

This concert is available in sangeethapriya.org at
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/kasturi/ ... J_TS_1978/

You can download YouTube videos or just the audios in multiple ways, I use the 4K products which is available for free from here.

Thank you

[semmu86]

https://archive.org/details/DKJ02RaghupateRaamaSAHANA

DKJ VVS UKS.... A beautiful sahAnA and a great thODi RTP. The trikAlam reply from VVS is just unbelievable. I can imagine a Vivian Richards like swagger on stage. DKJ would have started singing swarAs after doing pallavi trikAlam, but VVS pulled him back with his nonchalant reply and gave it all back, and still a little bit more. Outstanding!!!

[shanks]

Mahesh,
Varsha avaru has indeed shared this before. My guess is that Shanks is re-sharing it here in this thread.

Yes, It was shared by Varsha a long time ago.

Here is a great combination although not involving mridangam. The bonus part is the explanation of the slokam by MDR..
M Chandrasekaran shadows MDR with such care and the right level of embellishment and then follows up with his interpretation so succinctly.

https://archive.org/details/Ratnakaropt ... Ragamalika

[shanks]

https://archive.org/details/SriSatyanarayanam

S Ramanathan with MSG and T K Murthy.
Neraval at an unusual place and outstanding swarams.

[varsha]

https://archive.org/details/NIvEraKulad ... aTyAgarAja
Brilliant exchanges at neraval - nookala - lalgudi

[semmu86]

https://archive.org/details/NIvEraKulad ... aTyAgarAja
Brilliant exchanges at neraval - nookala - lalgudi

Wonderful Sir!! I was about to request you for this track, which you had uploaded here, quite sometime back. Thanks very much. Is it Vellore Ramabhadran on the Mrudangam?

[Rsachi]

Varsha,
Lalgudi simply excels here, with his classicism and manodharma.
The mridangam begins with that "Ga Ga Ga" strokes...and Lalgudi expounds that again in swaras...
all round joy.
Thanks!

[semmu86]

https://archive.org/details/03ORAjIvAkS ... iTyAgarAja

Voleti- Lalgudi- Trichy Sankaran. An outstanding Arabhi!

[hnbhagavan]

The last two concerts were excellent.Nookala did Alapana for 10 minutes and Lalgudi played for 5 minutes bringing out the highlights.
The Arabihi was also very nice.Thank you both.

[K Nagarajan]

MLV - A Kanyakumari.
A detailed Sriranjani for Matha ennum vatha of Papanasam Sivan

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/manjunat ... r_CO-1977/

[shankarank]

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/asokan/C ... IC/063-SSI

The first seven items up until Ma Janaki is the classic way to energize a concert - It is PMI on Mridangam, I guess TNK on Violin?

if there is one concert - this is it for me.

PMI may be playing with an attitude ( enna periya pATTu, IyengarvALavidavA?) - but the subtlety of the toppi is one of the best recorded ever.

SSI pours out one of his succinct/polished output ever.

I will give a 7 minute module in other thread.

[Rsachi]

Yes, I am certain it is TNK, except at many places the violin is a bit "forward" and preempts SSI. Very unlike TNK with SSI AFAIK.

PMI. 100% sure.

[semmu86]

https://archive.org/details/MSGUKS
ASundaresan=MSG=UKS

Varshaji, What a concert!! Listened to it so many times. All 3 at the absolute peak of their music. Pristine stuff. Just can't get better. Brevity, class, porutham, in each and everything that got rendered, the magnificent RTP included.

How can one ever thank you enough for bringing into light, all the hidden gems of A Sundaresan, S Ramanathan, TRS etc.

[GNB_LGJ_PR]

GNB-LGJ-Raghu - The mother of all combinations for me !!!
GNB-LGJ-PSP
GNB-LGJ-PMI
GNB-LGJ-CSM
GNB-MSG-CSM-MNP(The Natakurinji RTP concert at Shanmukhananda Bombay, 1963)
ARI-TNK-PMI

MMI-MSG-VR

AB-LGJ-PMI

KVN-LGJ-Raghu
KVN-NRM-VR

MVS-NRM-VR

TNS-LGJ-UKS
TNS-LGJ-KRM
TNS-MMN-TKM

SSI-LGJ-UKS

DKJ-VVS-UKS

Somu-LGJ-Raghu

SKR-MSG-KRM

TVS-MSG-KRM

Voleti-LGJ-KRM

MLV-AK-TMB-GH

MSS-VVS-TKM-Vikku