Chitraveena Ravikiran - Fort High School, Bangalore

vanamali · Post by **vanamali** » 09 May 2009, 23:32

Chitraveena - Vid N Ravikiran
Violin - Vid Mysore M Nagaraj
Mridangam - Vid K V Prasad
Khanjira - Vid B N Chandramouli
Vocal Support - Kum Anahita Ravindran
at Fort High School Grounds - May 9th 2009

01 varNam - sahana - Adi
02 paluku kaNDa cakkera - navarasa kannaDa - Adi - thyagaraja
03 appa rAma bhakthi - pantuvarALi - rUpakam - thyagaraja (R)
04 anAthuDanu gAnu - jingaLA - Adi - thyagaraja
05 paramAthmuDu - vAgadIshwari - Adi - thyagaraja (R, N , S, T)
06 jAvaLi - paras
07 piLLangOviya cheluva krishnana - kApi - purandara dAsar
08 thillana - rItigowLai - chitraveena ravikiran
09 narayanate namO namO - annamacharya
10 nigagAdasa yadynandana - sindhu bhairavi
11 mangalam

The concert started a bit late around 7 PM instead of 6:30, and he played till 9:30 PM. Overall a very good concert, though i was a bit disappointed that he didnt play an RTP. I particularly liked the main piece in vagadeeshwari. I dont remember anyone singing vagadeeshwari as the main piece in any concert (though i may be wrong). The raga alapana was excellent by both Ravikiran and Nagaraj.

Mysore Nagaraj as expected played brilliantly. The last long kalpanaswaram (usually proceeds to thani without a chance to the violinist) was played exceptionally well by Nagaraj.

Percussion by K V Prasad and B N Chandramouli was also very good.

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 14 May 2009, 17:41

vanamali wrote: 09 narayanate namO namO - annamacharya

Was this sung as a Ragamalika?

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 14 May 2009, 23:30

cienu wrote:Was this sung as a Ragamalika?

Unlikely. I have heard him play only in hindustAni bEhAg. I think every artiste other than Smt MS have sung/played it only in hindustAni bEhAg.

Smt MS sings first pallavi in nATTai, first charaNa in gowLa, third in varALi, fourth in Arabhi and fifth in SrI is a repeat of the 4th charaNA with the words purandaraviTTalA substituted for tiruvEnkaTanAyaka. Thereby, she (In reality, Kadayanallur Venkataraman) had made it a composition of purandaradAsar and annamAcharyA. She has sung swaras for all charanAs. I don't know how many of you have noticed this.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 15 May 2009, 07:16

Interesting, Krishna.

Cienu,
Could you add your bit to it?

apbhat · Post by **apbhat** » 16 Jul 2009, 06:05

ravikiran is a genious.thanks for elaborate reviewing

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 16 Jul 2009, 06:12

What was the role of Kum Anahita Ravindran?

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 16 Jul 2009, 07:31

Sathej · Post by **Sathej** » 16 Jul 2009, 07:37

Also recall a fairly detailed rendition of a Vagadeeshwari Swathi Thirunal Krithi by BMK on YouTube, if my memory is right..

Sathej

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 16 Jul 2009, 08:34

mohan wrote:What was the role of Kum Anahita Ravindran?

Anahita has a very sweet and melodious voice , vocal support adds more crowd for ravikiran's concert.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 16 Jul 2009, 08:49

I vaguely remember that Sri Vijay Siva was said to have sung a vAgadIshwari RTP once at the Academy...

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 16 Jul 2009, 09:26

rajeshnat wrote: Anahita has a very sweet and melodious voice , vocal support adds more crowd for ravikiran's concert.

Does she sing along during the krithis?

shripathi_g · Post by **shripathi_g** » 16 Jul 2009, 12:42

Sanjay sang Paramatmudu as the main at Kalarasna (Rani Seethai Hall) in 2003 December season. I think I have a recording lying around.

semmu86 · Post by **semmu86** » 16 Jul 2009, 13:56

mohan wrote:
rajeshnat wrote: Anahita has a very sweet and melodious voice , vocal support adds more crowd for ravikiran's concert.
Does she sing along during the krithis?

ya she does.. I remember attending a Ravikiran concert with Kum.Anahitha at rAgasudhA 3-4 months back , with Easwaran mama on the mrudangam (Nick , do you remember ??

) . And She sings really well...

Arvind..

semmu86 · Post by **semmu86** » 16 Jul 2009, 13:58

shripathi_g wrote:Sanjay sang Paramatmudu as the main at Kalarasna (Rani Seethai Hall) in 2003 December season. I think I have a recording lying around.

Dear Shripathi ji ,

Can you upload that krithi alone along with the thani pls ?? Cos i remember attending that concert , and this song is followed by an absolutely wondeful thani by Sankaran sir and T.V.Vasan.. ( Hope you are also talking about the same concert

)

Thanks

Arvind

sreekeshava.srihari · Post by **sreekeshava.srihari** » 16 Jul 2009, 17:32

apbhat wrote:ravikiran is a genious.thanks for elaborate reviewing

Ravikiran is Genious. Mysore Nagaraj is also a Genious.

I remember a Concert by Ravikiran(accompanied by Mysore Nagaraj) in Veene sheshanna Bhavana at Mysore 6 yrs ago.
It was an superb concert. Submain item was Hiranmayeem Lakshmim with Elaborate raga and Swaraprasthara.
Nagaraj was exceptionally good.
Nagaraj and Ravikiran form a good duo.
Even Nagaraj with Sanjay also forms an excellent duo.
Nagaraj with anybody artist will form a good duo.(Nagaraj is such an outstanding artist)

vanamali · Post by **vanamali** » 17 Jul 2009, 10:47

sreekeshava.srihari wrote:
apbhat wrote:ravikiran is a genious.thanks for elaborate reviewing
Ravikiran is Genious. Mysore Nagaraj is also a Genious.

I remember a Concert by Ravikiran(accompanied by Mysore Nagaraj) in Veene sheshanna Bhavana at Mysore 6 yrs ago.
It was an superb concert. Submain item was Hiranmayeem Lakshmim with Elaborate raga and Swaraprasthara.
Nagaraj was exceptionally good.
Nagaraj and Ravikiran form a good duo
Even Nagaraj with Sanjay also forms an excellent duo.
Nagaraj with anybody artist will form a good duo.(Nagaraj is such an outstanding artist)

yes i fully agree. Nagaraj is brilliant and he showed his brilliance in this concert as well.

As for Anahita, yes she sang some songs in the concert. I felt it was a bit distracting in the varnam when she seemed to sound louder than the chitraveena! The sound was more balanced later.

visaalam · Post by **visaalam** » 17 Jul 2009, 16:40

Nagaraj has created a new bani by imbibing the best of MSG and LG banis. With his hard work and creativity, he is the front ranking violonist of today.