Madurai T N Seshagopalan, Music Club IIT Madras

[rbharath]

Madurai T N Seshagopalan - V V Ravi - Trichur C Narendran - B S Purushottaman

Clasfest 2010
Music Club IIT Madras, CLT
13 August 2010. 6:45 pm

mAtE malayadvaja - khamAs - Adi - HMB (R) [daru]
siddhi vinAyakam - shanmukhapriyA - rUpakam - MD (S)
rAmAbhi rAmA - darbAr - misra cApu - T
ekkAlattilum - pUrikalyANi - Adi - TRP (R)
ADamODi galadE - chArukEsi - Adi - T (RS)
mariyAda kAdhayyA - bhairavam - Adi - T
brOvavammA - mAnji - misra cApu - SS
nijamunnai nambinEn - bilahari - kANDa cApu - PS (S)
antaranga bhakti - shaDvidamArgiNi - Adi - KI
giripai nelakona - sahAnA - Adi - T (RNS)
tani
vandE mAtaram ambikAm - slOkam in kIravANI, yamunA kalyANi, manO ranjani, srI
srI kamalAmbhikE - srI - kaNDa Ekam - MD
sarva mangaLa mAngalyE - slOkam in srI

The grand finale of the IITM Music Club's 40th anniversary. It was just out of the world with the veteran musician in great form.

The main sahAnA was a solid one hour with a very gripping and classical AlApanai that had the right measure of gamakkam laden phrases and minimal brigas to fit the mood of the rAgam. The kriti was rendered with a lot of bhavam and grandeur. The neraval at 'gAchedananu tyAgarAja vinutuni' was arousing the musical mind to otherwise unexplored realms and the svarams were so fitting too.

The main piece was so engrossing and occupied the mind to that extent that one has to go back to the list of songs to recollect what else was there in the concert. The khamAs AlApanai was very grippy and right then, i got a feeling this was going to be a concert of a life time. The sahAnA which came following was only to prove me right.

The AlApanais of pUrvikalyANi and charukEsi were both very good. The svarams in chArukEsi were good with the usual vyavahAram that one enjoys with somebody like TNS.

All the kritis that were rendered seemed to be carefully chosen and many of them are rare numbers in concert circuit these days.


When the great master is in peak form, the accompanists are better off to let him enjoy and present all that he wants to. The violinst of the day, chose to enjoy the music and keep a low key and gave very short and sweet responses to let the main artist continue to mesmerise the audience with his engulfing sahAnA.

The percussion department was also very elegantly handled. The mrudangist chose to accompany in a rather accomodative fashion and played in perfect tandem with whatever was being performed. The kanjira vidwan chose to follow suit with the mrudangist and they shared a very good tani.

In all, from the 3+ hours concert i will remember the sahAnA for a long long long time.

bharath

[rajeshnat]

Always used to wonder if there are any takers for giripai in sahanA as an elaborate main(in our forum I see there is just two renditions of giripai one by vedavalli and the other by chitraveena ravikiran) , never heard this other than a recording of MDR. My bad miss , could not come to IIT other than the first concert .

[kssr]

Was it a vocal concert? Remember reading somewhere that he is playing veena for this programme. He uses a violin for his veena concerts too and hence the doubt. Also, no where in the review could I see the word "sang"

[rbharath]

TNS sang at IIT

[Anandhabhairavi]

His veena too sings

[bilahari]

Yeah, it's nice to see giripai being taken as main!
Rajesh, MSG has also taken this as main.

[cacm]

I just wish to add that MDR & Sheikh Chinna Moulana in addition to others have done the great composition the treatment it richly deserves Sheikh chose it as the last song in his final concert in N.A. & the rendering so moved the audience at SUNY, Binghampton, NY in 1975 the audience requested a detailed explanation at the end!........VKV

[nyanasthan]

[update][/update]

Really a wonderful breathtaking performance. The acoustics could have been better. The voice was not heard clearly for the first few songs.