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Vocal support by nandakumAr
Accompanied by violinlover and erode14
1. inta gAna - sunnOdhaviNodhini
2. maheshwara sudham sadAshrAmi(RS NS ) - nAttai - PD???
3. baagaayanayya (S)- chandrajyothi - T
4. mArga HindOla rAgapriyE - mArga hindOlam
5. nera nammiti neeve gati(R S) - vasantA??
6A. saptharishi vaNalithE sapthaswara virAdithE (R N S) - kalyAni
neraval in "prakrithi vikyadeeshwara samshEvithE"
6B.tani
7.sakala balagE neeNE srihari - janya of rAgavardhini (he said it is varamardhini???, did I hear it right not sure)
8. Om namO bhagavathE paNDuraNgAya shree vasudevAya (R S) -revathi
9. thillana -dheem tanana udana - kumudhakriya
kurudi venkannachar reminds of Mangalampalli BMK in the way he renders the krithis with thrust in keywords and also in terms of bringing a kind of a more devotional feel in his rendition . His start in sunnodhaviNodhini and nAttai were quite good .ThyagarajA's chandrajyothi had the right emote, the marga hindolam krithi that followed was a quick krithi .The next krithi nera nammiti neeve gati was the first rAga alApana not that detailed and had a ok round of swaras. 30 minutes was gone with the first five krithis , kind of got a feel that the renditions were bit light.
The main was in kalyAni, both the vocalists infact the other vocalist Shri nandakumar sang a more well rounded kalyAni, incidentally during many saNgathis kalyAni appeared as a pure hindustani concert . The Krithi was a kind of semi classical tune ,the neraval was detailed and was nice with a round of swaras kind of just good.
The first tukkada was in a janya of rAgavardhini and was just good .The pick of the day was the last revati, to an extent the krithi itself was like vedic chanting not something that you can compare with say mahadeva shiva sambho. The swaras were just good to very good , to a great extent I liked nandakumar's rendition of the alAPana. The last thillana was a jumble of words and had a poor finish.
I did not sit for the next exclusive OVK concert by kunjumani bhagavathar . Sri kunjumani bhAgavathar is a disciple of pApanAsam sivan and he spoke briefly about the concert. Thanks to subramanian , his new flat looks great , a brand new beginning from the days of the first concert of TV rAmprasadh.
I was thinking for the last one year or so that I will go with coolkarni for two generation of concerts as years roll by, the first generation just got over as we went full circle , the house is the first second generation rasika of rasikas concert.
needs a break to rejuvenate and then continue with second full circle.Overall just a good concert . There could have been more kuthcheri paddhati style in his renditions which was there and not there.
