Malladi Bros @ BGS 23-Dec-2009

sankark · Post by **sankark** » 23 Dec 2009, 22:57

Malladi Brothers - Vocal
Embar S Kannan - Violin
Trichy Sankaran - Mrudangam
Udupi Sridhar - Ghatam

Concert duration: 3 hr 20 mins

Here is the songlist

parameswara jagadeeswara - nattai - dikshitar (s)
nada suda rasambilanu - arabhi - thyagaraja (s)
adaya shri - ahiri - thyagaraja (rs, raga for 10 mins, violin vinyasam 5 mins, swaras 5 mins) alapana by taller brother
enta vedu - saraswati - thyagaraja
manasa guruguha - anandabhairavi - dikshitar
urage galguna - sahana - thyagaraja (rnst, neraval at rajillu vara mantra, raga 15 mins, violin vinyasam 8 mins, swaras 8 mins, thani 20 mins) alapana by shorter brother
sivakama sundari - mukhari - papanasam sivan
rtp - nasikabhooshani (chatusra jhampa kanda nadai) - pahimam sri raja rajeshwari krupakari sankari
ragamalika swaras in sri?, kanada, hamir kalyani, ?, surati (45 mins total with a short tani at the end as well)
kandhabja? - ? - ?
vadaninne - kapi - poochi srinivasa aiyangar
madhava mamava - nilambari - narayana theerthar
mangalam

Simply superb! Glad that I gave up TM Krishna @ MFAC for this one. The brothers hit one out of the ground totally and deserved the standing ovation at the end.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 24 Dec 2009, 03:20

Ahiri and sahAna - what a great combination! NAsikAbhushani, on the other hand, I have never found especially enchanting. Thanks for the list, sankark.

sathkartha · Post by **sathkartha** » 24 Dec 2009, 06:54

an electric concert,to say the least;truly one of the best concerts I have been to this season.

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 24 Dec 2009, 07:23

Rasika911 · Post by **Rasika911** » 24 Dec 2009, 07:52

sankark wrote: urage galguna - sahana - thyagaraja

Ive never heard this sahana krithi before. Is there any audio of anyone rendering it?

sankark · Post by **sankark** » 24 Dec 2009, 08:12

I too hope this concert comes out as a CD. Would be a concert to revisit many a times.

Total absence of any major 6 but still an immensely satisfying concert it was. And nasikabhooshani was a comparative let down in otherwise great pieces.

Embar Kannan was in full form totally and elicited a list of bale's from the brothers. No screeching noises but sweet nadam throughout. I felt his sahana and tanams were great.

Tani was also very good and provided some aurally interesting patterns. Not an expert there to discern what was good though

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 24 Dec 2009, 09:01

sankark wrote: enta vedu - saraswati - thyagaraja

entha vEndukO - saraswati manohari -T , I guess
The taller brother is Shreeramprasad and the not so tall is ravikumar, both are in line with their name length.

sivakami · Post by **sivakami** » 24 Dec 2009, 09:17

kandhabja? - ? - ?

was it 'kandharpa janaka' in kalavathi, that they sing so melodiously?

grsastrigal · Post by **grsastrigal** » 24 Dec 2009, 09:58

entha vEduko- Saraswati Manohari
Kandarba Janaka- Kalavathy-Annamacharya. (I had uploaded this song in our "lyrics" session long back and sri. Laxman has given the lyrics too)

Urage galguna- sung by Maharajapuram Santhanam in a commercial release (yesteryears). Of course, it has not been sung by any one. Malladi, as always, renders new kritis. That is the best part of them

Today's concert also no Syama Sastri kriti..

RTP - Janaranjani (not sri)-they wanted to sing this raga since the "words" were taken out from the song of that kriti by MD. Kanada, Rageshree, Amir Kalyan and Surutti.

Nasikabhooshani was a let down. As RTP you do not have anything in this raga for more than 3 minutes. It might go to vagadheeshwarai, Vachaspathi etc., They had to be careful in "traversing"
in the same raga which was very difficult. In this process, the sukham was missing.

As they did Bairavi (NGS) or Ritigowla (MA), they could have taken a heavy weight raga. Moreover, they took Sahana as the main, I expected some better raga for RTP.

Last year December, the same venue with the same team (TS and EK), they rendered a scintillating Charukesi RTP and Mukhari Main (Kshhenamai). Sri.Vijay (who is missing here in this season) considered this RTP one of the best he heard....

Having said in Sahana, Ravikumar brought the full emotions. Very well rendered.