Delhi Muthukumar - Melakaveri Thyagarajan - Trivandrum Balaji
Karthik Fine Arts, PS School. 13th June 06. 5 pm
inta chalamu - bEgaDa varNam - Adi - vINai kuppaiyer (RS)
ninnE bajana - nATTai - Adi - T (RS)
rAmanAtam bhajEham - kAsirAmakriyA - rUpakam - MD (RNS)
slOkam 'dharaNi garba' followed by angArakam - suruTTi - rUpakam - MD
aruL seiyya vENDumaiyyA - rasikapriyA - Adi - KI (R)
ratna kanchukadAriNi - kAmbhOji - misra cApu - HMB (RNS)
tani avarththanam
nArAyaNa hari - yamunakalyANi - Adi - T
ulaga pasu - hamsAnandi - tiruppugazh
The opening bEgaDa AlApanai was a signal for a nice concert. The varNam was rendered with nice svarams. The nATTai AlApanai was also good, followed by nice svarams.
Those who drooped over the starting of pantuvarALi AlApanai, sat up straight as he elaborated the ragam showing essential raga bhavam and kriti was rendered with nice neraval and swarams at 'kumAra guruguha mahitam kavibrindAdi sannutam'. The slOkam in suruTTi and the kriti were well rendered also.
The highlight of the concert was a good elaboration of rasikapriyA. The artist showed essentialities of the rAgam and the kriti was rendered with bhavam. The main kAmbhOji AlApanai was good. Though short, the not-so-often heard kriti taken up was refreshing. The neraval and svarams at 'indu SEkara harikEsa sundarAnga vihAriNi' was good.
Sri Muthukumar gave a good concert. The violinst did a good job though he fell short on a few occasions. The mrudangist played with good anticipation and the tani was nice and enjoyable also.
bharath