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Accompanied by BU GaneshPrasad - violin , Umayalpuram K sivarAman- mrudangam and EM Subramaniam - ghatam
The concert was held as part of the anniversary celebrations of the immortal sowkhyam mahA vidwan Shir KV NarAyanaswamy
1. shripathE nee pAda(R,S) - nAgaswaravali - T
2 mins alApanai and 5 mins swaras
2. pAhimAm bruhannAyikE(R,S) - husEni - ST
3 mins alApanai , 2 mins violin return and 3 mins swaras
3. ninnu vinA gAma(R, N ,S) - poorvikalyAni -SS
9 mins alApanai , 4 mins violin return
4 mins neraval in "kAmitha pala dhAyaki shree lalithA??"
5 mins swaras
4. krpa jUcuTaku vELarA rAma - caayatharangiNi - T
5. shree rama jayarAmA - yk kAmboDhi - T
6A. kamAlAmbikE (R N S T)- toDi - MD
9 mins alApanai , 6 mins violin return
4 mins neraval in "sakalE guruguhakaraNE sadAsivAantah karanE"
8 mins swaras
6B. tani for 13 mins
7. kannanai pani manamE - shanmughapriyA - psivan
8. marubAri (javAli)- khamAs - Dharmapuri Subbarayar
9A. slokham "vaidehi sahitam" - mohanam + kApi -??
9B. Adideva paramAtmA - sindhubhairavi - AC
10. patiki hAratIrE - shuruTTi - T
The concert started very late at 07:30 pm and ended exactly at 09:30pm.Over the years ,mallAdi brothers have a right sense of distribution within both of them , in the sense it is never a case of one dominating the other. Also incidentally they share very likely the first half where ravi takes a lead , and then shriram takes from the main atleast in terms of rAga alApanai . Also rAgas like todi is typically taken by sriram , so in a sense even rAga rotation is also fairly fixed between brothers. To that extent as with many dual singers the energy quotient is typically high which is because of the load factor.
Ravi started with a brief alApanai and the rAga contours stayed away from his cousin bahudAri and I latched it quite early, the krithi and swaras were well done. Huseni , a nadaswara piDi was always omnipresent from the rAga contours to the krithi and swaras it was gripping with the right speed . The traditional and most favourite submain in poorvikalyAni popped out with a nice alApanai and swaras , I would have preferred for them to cut loose more in neraval , kind of bit short.
The fast cAyatharangini was quite well done , but the yk kAmbOdhi contrast was much better. The main was leisurely as the krithi demands to an extent and they sang with a nice drop of neraval and swara sequence , incidentally the neraval was again bit shorter , but being a kamalAmbA krithi usually the neraval is not as expansive as a typical todi krithi of a shivan or a thyagarAja krithi(would love if some body breaks the artificial ceiling which is been there for century ). The alApanai of todi was handled by shriram.
Tukkadas were all well done ,the thamizh krithi is usually dropped by mallAdi as a post main tukkadA , the marubAri had a nice alankaram with ,,,. The one no that stood out the best was shriram's emotive slokham of this beautiful vaidehi sahitam both mohanam and kApi were top class. The sindhubhairavi tukkadA was just good .
Ganesh Prasad play was consistent with a lovely nAdham and his sense of proportion of violin returns were perfect. The doyen UKS was in full form in the tani with some beautiful strokes and lively exchange with EMS . The krithi play of UKS was not the best of best of UKS , but nevertheless still great. EMS did provide a very good support
Few short comings:
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1. At times the malladi's pack with a little more voice power and it was quite loud , it would make sense if they moved little away from mike that too for power krithis like cayatharangini
2. The concert was for KVN anniversary, would have been little more appropriate if numbers of KVN popularized ones were taken . I am assuming KVN has sung nAgaswarali , this yk kAMbOdhi, but I am not sure if KVN is known that much to sing this particular tOdi,also KVN was known as neraval nararyanaswami, but there was not much neraval by the brothers . In short I would love any musician to give the right glimpse to inspire and educate the rasikas with more specifics of the dedicated artist.
But However the above 2 is minor
The biggest crib is the concert started at 07:30 pm , after a delayed start , ashok leyland seshasayee spoke and also UKS spoke , also anuradha (KVN's daughter) took away 10 minutes by reading few mails of few dignataries who could not come to this concert (like MS swaminathan's letter stating that he was not available because of his rome trip that he is undergoing now ), in short speech ate the concert.
Overall a very good to excellent concert for 2 hours , the classicism was well exhibited
. Kutcheri season is approaching so 2 hours is the norm :rolleyes: