Neela Ramgopal, NMN Day, Nada Inbam

[rbharath]

Neela Ramgopal - M R Gopinath - Thanjavur Ramadass - N Guruprasad

NMN rememberance day
Nada Inbam, Raga Sudha
5 Aug 10. 6 pm

mana mOhana - mOhanam - aTa - HMB [varNam]
AraNa poruLE - kharaharapriyA - rUpakam (RNS)
rAvE himagiri kumAri - tODi - Adi - SS
srI svAminAtAya - khamAs - kaNDa cApu - MD (R)
sATilEni guruguha - pUrikalyANi - misra cApu - Ponnaiah Pillai (RS)
ninnADa nEla - kannaDa - Adi - T (S)
ninnuvinA marigaladA - rItigauLa - rUpakam - SS
mari mari vacchunA - kAmbhOji - Adi - MV (RNS)
tani
niraimadi mugamenum - hamsAnandi - Adi [thiruppugazh]
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T

It was a fantastic concert right from the start. The kritis were all exceptionally rendered with a lot of feel. The choice of rAgams and kritis was particularly refreshing. The AlApanais of kharaharapriya, khamAs, pUrikalyANi and the main kAmbhOnji where all wonderful and done to the right measure with a lot of classical phrases. The neraval svarams were all done with quite a bit of vyavaharam, without breaching to the raga bhavam. The accompanists did a wonderful job in accompanying and giving appropriate replies during their turns.

It was a very good concert to remember for a long time.

bharath

[rajeshnat]

AraNa poruLE - kharaharapriyA - rUpakam (RNS)

AraNa pOruLE - kharaharapriyA is by mayuram vishwanAtha sAstri

[sridhar_ranga]

*** deleted - comment on another concert posted by mistake in this thread ***

[harimau]

Neela Ramgopal - M R Gopinath - Thanjavur Ramadass - N Guruprasad

ninnuvinA marigaladA - rItigauLa - rUpakam - SS

bharath

Neela Mami sang this krithi in the raga Abheri (using Suddha Dhaivatham, as opposed to Karnataka Devagandhari which today passes for Abheri in people's minds) in which it was originally composed.

You can get some more information on this krithi from the CD "Pramanam" by Smt. R. Vedavalli.

[rbharath]

harimau, i thought neela mami sang it in reetigaula only (except for prolly on D1 usage somewhere). it sounded like a reetigaula only to me.
i have otherwise heard the AbhEri version of Vedavalli mami many times.

[Always_Evolving]

harimau, i thought neela mami sang it in reetigaula only (except for prolly on D1 usage somewhere)..

It was Abheri. I was surprised and had no idea until I read Harimau's post that it was originally composed in Abheri!.

[rbharath]

harimau and always_evolving, you both are right. Neela mami indeed sang it in AbhEri. my ear failed me. apologies for the error