Parassala Ponnamaal - Navarathri mandapam 2009

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 29 Sep 2009, 08:19

Vidushi Parassala B Ponnamaal - vocal
Vidushi Bhama krishnan - vocal support
Vidushi Amritha murali - violin
Vid BGanapathiraman - mridhangam
Vid Uduppi Sridhar - ghatam

1. sarasa suvadana - kalyani (outline, swaram @ ma ramana)
2. krupaya palaya - charukesi (alapana, swaram @ krupaya palaya)
3. samodam paripalaya - ramapriya (alapana)
4. deva deva mam - todi (alapana, neraval & swaram at ?)
5. mamava sada janani - kanada
6. pahi parvathanandini - arabhi (alapana, tanam, neraval & swaram at pallavi line, tani avarthanam)
7. kamalajasya hruta (dasavathara keerthanam) - ragamalika (mohanam brief alapana)
8. alasara parithapam (starting at jalaja bhandu) - surati
9. bhujaga sayino - yadukula kambhoji

Awsome concert, words can't describe the concert. Charukesi, todi and arabhi alapanas were excellently done, i am still hearing arabhi in my mind now. Some of the songs were very new for me like kalyani and todi, ofcourse dasavathara ragamalika with nice chittaswaras.

-hari

vmr · Post by **vmr** » 29 Sep 2009, 09:43

Smt.Ponnamaal is indeed a versatile artist and astonishing at her age. I had the privilage to attend a couple of her concerts at Chennai and it was mind boggling to listen such vintage music with classicalism intact.......

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 29 Sep 2009, 10:29

Hari,
Good to know you are listening to the Navaratri Mandapam concerts.
Listening to Parassala Ponnammal is an experience in itself. In a way, I will not call it vintage music because it is living music which pulsates with the classicism of the old days. She creates a calmness around her. Music flows out of her like a soothing brook...

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 29 Sep 2009, 10:33

How well put, arasi...
Hari, I'm green with envy! It must have been a really special concert.

rajeevsid · Post by **rajeevsid** » 29 Sep 2009, 11:44

What a wonderful list and your brief review almost completely encapsulates how good it must have been... a great concert... Hari - you really must be having a great time ... Enjoy..

tharunthilak · Post by **tharunthilak** » 29 Sep 2009, 13:25

@s_hari - Would be great if you could post the concert in youtube.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 29 Sep 2009, 13:44

tharun - let's hope prince upload sample of concert in youtube as usual. Hope someone recorded AIR broadcast excerpts

-hari

devi · Post by **devi** » 29 Sep 2009, 15:56

Here's the AIR recording of Smt. Ponnammal teacher.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2tzzngkhmnm

Got this link from Rasikapriya Yahoo Group posted by Sri.Subramanian Krishnan

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 29 Sep 2009, 16:27

Great to hear Arabhi again through this recording. Thanks Sri. Krishnan and Ms Devi.

-hari

rajeevsid · Post by **rajeevsid** » 29 Sep 2009, 16:33

Thanks devi for the lovely upload...

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 29 Sep 2009, 21:15

What a lovely list!!

pAhi parvatanandini mAmayi is one of my favorites in ArabhI - the song always evokes memories of Smts. Kamala, Vasanti and Rhadha dancing to it.

rjayakumar · Post by **rjayakumar** » 29 Sep 2009, 22:12

Thanks for the link. Sanjay's and Amrutha Murali's concerts are also available for download

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 29 Sep 2009, 23:26

I hadn't remembered the opener of the concert 'sArasa suvadana' in kalyANi until now! A gem, indeed! With her, it would have been spun silk. I say this because even after all these years, I'm reminded of the way that kalyANi of ST unfurls itself. Lyrics and music mesh magically in that song. My guess is that HMB set it to tune

tharunthilak · Post by **tharunthilak** » 30 Sep 2009, 15:31

Thanks devi. What a lovely list. Arabhi is simply superb.

Also I have seen in another post that Ponnammal teacher's national program concert in Doordarshan would be re-telecased by Doordarsan tomorrow (1 -10 - 2009) at 7AM on DD Malayalam.