Bharat Sangeet Utsav - 01/11/09 - Ms.Savita Narasimhan

ganeshkant · Post by **ganeshkant** » 07 Nov 2009, 14:07

Accompaniments : Akkarai Subbulakshmi,B.Sivaraman & Anirudh Athreya

I was late by ~ 15 mins.

I started listening from

Sankarinive - Begada

Vidulaku Mrokkade - Mayamalavagowlai (R,S)

Bantureethi - Hamsanadam

Akshayalingavibho - Sankarabharanam (R,N,S,T)

Neematala - Poorvikalyani (Javali)

Irakkam varamal - Behag

The artist was in good form and it showed in her singing.

Both Mayamalagowlai & Sankarabharanam were sung unhurriedly and built in beautiful phrases.She stayed in each sthayi comfortably and then switched on to the next.She is always methodical and well planned and that was reflected in whatever she sang.

The artist deserves special praise for her selction of MMG as submain.

Akkarai played her role correctly.Her reply of MMG was good and Sankarabharanam surprisingly was average.

BS & Anirudh did their roles adequately.

A very good concert on the whole.

sureshvv · Post by **sureshvv** » 07 Nov 2009, 19:09

She started with a Sarasangi adi tala varnam which was followed by Bhuvinidasu in Sriranjani.

Mayamalavagowlai alapana was excellent and specially tailored to the uncommon kriti that followed, instead of rattling off all the phrases associated with the raga borrowed from all kritis. Sankarabharanam was both leisurely and majestic and lifted the concert feng shui. Felt a small let down in the thukkada section as it was kind of short.

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 10 Nov 2009, 23:51

nice review, gk. write more.

saianamika · Post by **saianamika** » 12 Nov 2009, 00:15

She announced that the varnam was in Simhavahini ragam composed by her guru Shri Ravikiran. It is a janya ragam of Sarasangi.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 13 Nov 2009, 08:11

Writeup (second half) of this concert
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/11/13/stor ... 200200.htm