S Purushothaman & S Varadachari concert at RKMSHome Mylapore

chandar · Post by **chandar** » 25 Sep 2009, 13:08

Both vidushis gave an excellent performance for the children of Ramakrishna mission Home at Mylapore on the occasion of Navarathri They were accompanied by two ex students of Vivekananda college - sri MAKrishnasami on violin and Mannarkoil Balaji on Mridangam

Items sung
Slokam on Ganesha Hamsadhwani by SP
Slokam on Saraswati Nattai by SV
Saraseeruhasanapriye Nattai adi Puliyur Doraisamy - swarams at saraswati
Tirumagale Kadai Kann Valaji TisraJhampa tisragati SugunaPurushottaman comp
Viruttam Mukhari from abhirami andadi Maniye followed by SV
Sivakamasundari Mukhari adi Papanasam sivan
Kamalamba Anandabhairavi MChapu Dikshitar Navavarnam
Sri Kamakshi Katakshi Vasantha Adi by ?? small alap by SP
Alapana shanmugapriya by SV followed by
Ninnai Sila varangal adi Subramania Bharathiar Neraval swaram
Sharade Devagandhari adi Papanasam Sivan
Alapana abhogi by SP followed by
Sharadadeviye nin Charanam Adi Ramasami Sivan
Alapana shankarabharanam by SV & SP followed by
Devi Jaga Janani adi SwatiTirunal Navaratri Kriti Neraval Swaram Thani
Kanakasaila Punnagavarali Adi ShyamaSastry
Navamani Yamunakalyani adi SP composition
Manohari mala Mchapu SPcomposition
Devarnama ramakrishna nammanage Tilang Mchapu
Mangalam

I would say it was a brilliant concert by both Vidushis. Both Shanmugapriya and Shankarabharanam were sung with utmost classicism brilliant manodharma especially neraval for shanmugapriya.
Kalpanaswaras ending in ND. Shankarabharanam Swarams at navartrimahotsavam kalpanaswaras at SRS. MAK provided a brilliant support and Balajis thani was to be appreciated as he really followed the pattern of manodharma of the singing artists.

A word about Suguna Puroshothamans' composition has to be specially said: good lyrics excellent musical presentation with laya, a nice treat to the ears. I would appreciate if she really makes an effort to bring all her compositions in book format with notations so that music students can learn and sing them in concerts. The manoharimala comprising of devamanohari, jayamanohari, saraswatimanohari and ramamanohari was really good and made me think of ranjani mala by TSSanakaran Iyer.
To conclude this concert will be in my memories for a longtime, if not forever.

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 25 Sep 2009, 16:26

One of the best concerts by two giants of this music field. I really enjoyed being on stage with them. Their laya control, their shruthi shuddha, their creativity and patanthara shuddha all are praiseworthy. Suguna Purushothaman madam always has some new ideas up her sleeves. In the main kriti she sang swaraprasthara after 4 beats in Adi 2 kalai giving a lead pattern for me that which i continued and played till the mohara which was appreciated by Member Chandar in his review.

MAK was sweetest yesterday and the tone was excellent. Suguna Varadachari and Suguna Purushothaman did extremely well in swaraprasthara by alternating a few combinations and creating nice rhythmic patterns.

As chandar pointed out one of the best concerts in the recent times and will linger for long.

J.Balaji

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 25 Sep 2009, 21:44

Thanks a lot chandar and JB.

Both the Suguna Mamis are a treat to listen to.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 25 Sep 2009, 22:06

chandar wrote: Items sung
Ninnai Sila varangal adi Subramania Bharathiar Neraval swaram
.....
Manohari mala Mchapu SPcomposition

I think this is the first occurence of a neraval for a bharathiyAr krithi, I have not heard even one even thru grapevine. I think bharathiyAr's lines are punched with so many neraval lines , that no one felt like singing that , noteworthy neraval(If some one else has sung a neraval for a bharathiyAr ever , please let me know). Also would love to hear manohari ragamaliga composition.

Wanted to hear this concert as I have only heard them as singular sugunA , but not plural sugunA yet.

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 26 Sep 2009, 00:14

shrI kAmAkSi kaTAkSi is by Subbaraya Shastri.

Sreeni Rajarao · Post by **Sreeni Rajarao** » 26 Sep 2009, 00:27

Looks like the dEvaranAma in the above song list is rAmakRShNaru manege bandaru bAgila tereyire.

This is a composition of Purandara dAsa I am used to hearing in sindhu Bhairavi.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 26 Sep 2009, 00:41

Does anyone know if this concert was recorded? The song selection is awesome!

keerthi · Post by **keerthi** » 26 Sep 2009, 07:46

srI-kamAkSi katAksi is by tiruvArur ramaswami pillai, who has composed a bhASAmalika in tamizh, sanskRt, kannaDa and hindustani..

See below link for more on this vAggEyakAra..

http://guruguha.org/ramaswamipillai.php

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 26 Sep 2009, 12:00

Shankar the Ramakrishna authorities have video recorded the entire concert. It was really awesome by the duo.

J.Balaji

malavi · Post by **malavi** » 26 Sep 2009, 19:25

Smt.suguna Purushothaman s students sang some devi kritis in Hamsadhwani in the guru sishya series.one of the kritis was sri kamakshi katakshi in vasanta. Smt.suguna said some say it is a kriti by subbaraya sastri.But she felt it was a kriti by tiruvarur ramaswami pillai as it is in many ways similar to his kriti jagadeeswari in mohanam.The word vedapureeswara seems to be his mudra.In jagadeeswari he says vedapuridasan .

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 26 Sep 2009, 19:34

mridhangam wrote:Shankar the Ramakrishna authorities have video recorded the entire concert. It was really awesome by the duo.

J.Balaji

Sri Balaji - do you know if they are planning to make it into a commercial one? I would love to have a copy.