K.V.Narayanaswamy

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Rsachi
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Re: FIRST LP RECORD OF KVN

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KNV,
The Hariharaputram EP was at Sangeet Natak Academy Delhi listening room. I used to go there and heard it a few times. I didn't know then how potent and long-standing the KVN-TNK-PRR combination was.
Thanks!

KNV1955
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Rsachi This must have been recorded in 1962. AIR used to play for long period. KVN-TNK-Raghu combination continued till 1975 when TNK stopped playing accompaniment except for Semmangudi

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I have attended the KVN TNK UKS 1986 Navarathiri Mandapom concert!

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Three KVN concerts in Parvathi: http://bit.ly/Zs3HjC
1970, 1972 and 1974. '72 with TNK.
I heard KVN in Delhi live with TNK and PRR in 1975.

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0:49
0:55
1:14
1:21
3:04
4:13
4:48
5:07

There is a R,R, GRSN in 6:07 (swaraprastha) also.

I am saddened by lack of intellectual honesty and regard for artistic freedom.

KNV1955
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My swara gnanam is limited. Only experts can confirm.When he teaches this song he would emphasise on the plain note shadjam ha ri portion instead of taking the support of the preceding & succeeding note(melendho Keezhendho edukkama hit the shadjam note bang on its note). There is beauty in singing this way but I don't know how many really appreciate such nuances. Again some may say that it is his perception/padam.

Arasi as for swaras -liked your comment that much only the plate can hold. May the training of his great master. Innum venum nu ninaikarappa mudichiduvar. When you think you want more he will stop it.
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KNV,
Thanks for your kind words.
Good to know you are the master's son ;) I knew your father as a little girl. I remember him as being a bit shy but very pleasant. He took his singing very seriously--by which I mean, his commitment to his art was evident even then, to a mere child. Though I left India nearly half a century ago, listening to recorded concerts of his, and later on getting a couple of chances to hear him in person in the US meant a great deal to me. Coming to the season from the mid-nineties offered me a chance to hear him again in person. He was ailing. Still, what music!

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KNV1955 wrote:Rsachi This must have been recorded in 1962. AIR used to play for long period. KVN-TNK-Raghu combination continued till 1975 when TNK stopped playing accompaniment except for Semmangudi
That is patently not true. If you look at the MMA lists TNK played for several artistes well into the mid 1980s. I am glad that these things are well documented in the archives.

Here are some examples I pulled out.

1980: Maharajapuram Santhanam: http://www.musicacademymadras.in/golden ... e_1980.php
1981: TN Seshagopalan: http://www.musicacademymadras.in/golden ... e_1981.php
1983: Trichur Ramachandran http://www.musicacademymadras.in/golden ... e_1983.php
1985: N Ramani http://www.musicacademymadras.in/golden ... e_1985.php

The last year he played as an accompanist that I see was in 1988 for Semmangudi (with Trichy Sankaran & Harishankar) for the concert with paTTi viDuva rAdu that is played in a number of contexts including Sankaran's interactive session. Most of this concert is in youtube.

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Mahavishnu he stopped playing for KVN around 75. May be an odd Navarthri mandapam concert & radio prog.

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KNV, but you mentioned in your post that TNK stopped playing as an accompanist for everyone except Semmangudi in 1975 and that was inaccurate. Of course you are more aware of when he stopped accompanying with KVN.

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Yes. I know he played for others for a while. I didn't want to go into details.I know KVN-TNK_Raghu combination broke around that time. Raghu continued for some more years & later Narendran was accompanying him for some years. I don't remember dates etc. Even year 1962 may be wrong. It could be even earlier. I remember we children (my sisters & myself) were living in Jamshedpur between 61 to 63 with my Grand Parents (mother side) & we used to take the plate & play it in road side shops since we didn't have a Gramaphone record player at home. Later I must have heard this in AIR Chennai atleast 100 times.It vanished suddenly & when I checked up with AIR they said they don't have it. Suddenly I got from a friend of mine & he found in AIM site. It cannot be recorded & I don't know why.

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TNK has accompanied MDR in the 80s too, if my recordings are correctly dated. The last accompaniment documented online is for SSI's CMANA concert in 1994 on YouTube.

I'm glad many of our current generation violinists benefited from accompanying KVN - Nagai Muralidharan's accompaniment to his 1993 Stanford concert and Varadarajan's accompaniment to his 2001 season concert stand out in my memory.

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This is natural - TNK having played for Ariyakudi (KVN's guru) for so many years .... From a rasika perspective, KVN concerts with accompaniments of MSG, VVS and MC, Raghu, UKS and VR were quite popular. TNK did accompany only selected concerts beyond 80s; some Semmangudi, Kalyanakrishna Bagavathar , some MDR concerts (later MDR concerts also featured VV Ravi, L. Subramanian, ...). There was BMK concert @ Nanganallur Anjaneyar temple - BMK / TNK / UKS / Harishankar.

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bilahari Can you move this thread & Sri Subramanyaya Namaste to the sit you have recommended.

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merged

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Is there a concert version of Hariharaputram by KVN with any one ?

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Post by Enna_Solven »

Several are there in Sangeethapriya, plus one Charsur CD.

KV Narayanaswamy 032 06:01
KVN 063 SPR 02-C0255 08:48
KVN MSA TN-Dayton OH-10-16-1983 09:26 1983
KVN MSG VR VN-IFAS 1983 11:16 1983
KVN-MSA-TCN Toronto Canada 10-29-1983 19:15 1983
KVN-MSA-UKS-1980 08:33
Paddhatti - Live Concert 1990 CD3 09:11

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thanks

mahavishnu
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This version is one of my favourites. with MC and UKS.
https://soundcloud.com/ramesh-balasubra ... m-vasantha

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bilahari wrote:The last accompaniment documented online is for SSI's CMANA concert in 1994 on YouTube.
I had the privilege of watching TNK playing accompaniment last to Semmangudi mama sometime around 2000/2001 @ Parthasarathy Swami Sabha with UKS. What a khAmbhOji that concert had! In fact that was one amongst the last 1 or 2 concerts of Semmangudi mama. Wonder if someone has recorded that.

I was told that TNK has also accompanied Yesudoss along with Bhakthavatsalam as a team, for sometime in the 90's.

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There is a rendering of 'Pahi Janani in Nattaikurinji' which is so good.
Mridangam may be Palghat Raghu.

That concert has also Thodi as main and a superb srinvasa in karaharapriya

Really a sublime concert

Raman

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Admin... Pl merge 8th day Navarathri Kriti Pahi Jaga Janani in Nattakurinji which I uploaded as a seperate thread with this thread.
KNV

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Post by vasanthakokilam »

KNV, merged. It should appear in chronological order in this thread (on 22nd OCT 2012). Here is the back link to that post in this thread: http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 81#p229381

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Balagopala by KVN-MSG-Narendran. Beautiful Neraval. Mylapore Fine Arts Concert early 80's

https://soundcloud.com/viswanathan-kn/k ... a-bhairavi

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K V Narayanaswamy - Maa Daiyai - Vasanta - Papanasam Sivan

http://www.klip.com/#view=PRLzOx&m=ot

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K V Narayanaswamy - Kaliyugadalli Hari - Senchurutti - Purandaradasa Apologies for the poor recording quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVlLnB-e ... mN3p6ioxoj


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBtGUgarE0

Enneramum -Devagandhari-Goplakrishna Bhrathi A radio prog

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KNV, just heard also Shivakamasundari, Ananda Bhairavi Tillana....what a concert! What voice! I am speechless.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dm9ZM5SiNc


K V Narayanaswamy - Manasu Swaadheena - Shankarabharanam - Tyagaraja

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https://soundcloud.com/palghatrajaram-r ... -iyer#play

Listen to Palghat Mani Iyer alapana of Bilahari

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Oh, man. That is worth a lot. Thanks KNV

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"Sri K.V.Narayanaswamy performed at the Sangeet Sammelan Programme held at All India Radio, Bangalore in 1958. He was accompanied by Sri Mysore T.Chowdiah on the violin and Sri Palghat T.S.Mani Iyer on the mridangam. The recording quality isn't the best but this concert has been shared all the same, for the sheer historical and archival value."
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... fTcbkVCFtI

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Oh what a gift. Thanks, Cienu and Navneet...

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What a beautiful pAsuram... and how movingly rendered... I heard it first off AIR in the early 80s from Shri KVN... wonderful to hear it in his 1958 voice ! Thanks.

minnu mAzhai tavazhum mEka vaNNaa
viNNavar tam perumAnE aruLAi enRu
annamAi munivarOTu amarar Etta
arumaRaiyai velipadutta ammAn tannai
mannu mAmaNi mATa mankai vEntan
mAnavEl parakAlan kaliyan conna
panniya nUl tamizh mAlai vallAr tollai
pazha vinayai mutal ariya vallAr tAmE

For a complete translation look up

http://www.srivaishnavan.com/upload2.7/ ... aham3.html

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very nice concert by KVN, wonderful voice !

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Question for techies: this 1958 KVN concert on Youtube doesn't produce any sound on iPad or Android 4.1. It plays OK on any Windows PC. Why? I am clueless. Anybody faces the same issue?

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Flash player vs HTML5 player version differences? That is the first thing that came to my mind. See if the problem exists on the PC as well with html5: http://www.youtube.com/html5

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No it is not an HTML5 issue. Perhaps the properties or encoding for the track!?
In fact the only clip that refuses to play on my iPad in the four different browsers/players I tried is this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDOQYYs ... tube_gdata
It is a rare Mysore Maharaja composition in Kannada raga, and that is one of the six compositions Vid. R K Srikantan taught to a group last week in Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha.

Please try and let me know. Thx

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It works for me on windows PC as well as on the iPad (mini). I surfed to your post and touched the link. It launched the YouTube app and I could hear the audio.

Great song. Though I do not hear songs in Kannada often, I can recognize this raga very well. I am surprised about that myself. ( another such raga for me is Paras ).

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REALLY!?
I haven't been able to play this clip on my iPad. And also on my Android phone.....:(

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I have had no problems playing this on an iPad as well.

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Makes me feel really stupid. Let me busy myself and find the answer. (already reinstalled youtube app - still no go :()

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Eureka!
Even before I entered the bath, I did this: googled (what else?) and saw that some nerd had suggested "Reset all Settings", did the same after backing up.
And while it wiped out all my lovely screen-saver and wall paper etc., no app or data was lost, and YOU TUBE DID WORK! I DO HEAR NOW SRI CHAMUNDESHWARI-Kannada on my iPad.:)

Will see about the Android presently.

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Ravi ,
U asked for this vasantha krithi in another thread
maa daiyai -vasantha -papanAsam sivan
shri KVN rendering it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-kKTxBnLiI

KNV or anyone else,
Around 2:22 minute in the above link ,i see a young kid between manoj shiva and KVN , is that Ashwath narayanan

KNV1955
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Rajesh It looks like Aswath Narayan.

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Dear KNV,

I would like to know whether TN Krishnan accompanied Palghat KV Narayanaswamy?
I have attended concerts in which Sri MSG,Lalgudi,MC,Mysore Nagaraj accompanied KVN sir in Bangalore.

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YES! MANY TIMES TOO......VKV

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Dear Sri VKV,

Thank you for your reply.I browsed thru various links given under Sri KVN.Indeed there are many concerts with Sri TNK as accompaniment.
I personally did not experience a live concert with this combine.
Some excellent concerts have been posted in Parvathi also.

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PALGHAT RAGHU, TNK (if I am not mistaken) & KVN used to practise together in Kerala when they were growing up. I somewhat remember KVN talking to me about this. VKV #:-s

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