Mysore Srikanth - Fiddle
BC Manjunath - Mridanga
Giridhar Udupa - Ghatam
01 May 2011, Fort High School Grounds
sAmi ninnE kOri - shrI - Adi - PSI (?) (sketch)
ElA nI daya rAdu - aThANa - Adi - T (RS)
hiraNmayIm lakShmIm - lalitA - rUpaka - MD (RS)
saumitrI bhAgyam - kharaharapriya - Adi - T (RS)
brOva bhAramA - bahudAri - Adi - T (S?)
mOhana rAma - mOhanam - Adi - T (RS)
tani
rAma rAma rAma rAma rAma yennirO - tilang (?) - rUpaka - PD
It was a very good concert. Sri Seshachari seemed to suffer from cold, but sang less tAra sthAyi and more mandra sthAyi. He sounded like Nookala somehow, at many places! Having recently been in envy of ksrimech having gotten to listen to a proper lalitA, I got one too! Srikanth's AlApanai reflected the quality phrases Sri Seshachari had employed in his.
saumitrI bhAgyam was a request. There are krtis I like more in kharaharapriya, but this one's quite rare and has good lyrics, and Sri Seshachari was very happy that this was requested. Sri Raghavachari's AlApanai for the piece was very good. mOhana rAma was also a request and replaced a potential kalyANi. Not such a great disappointment rAgam-wise +(Fort is no place for an immersing kalyANi imho), but I might have preferred some other krti, since I heard Amrutha Sankaranarayanan sing it last week. I thought maybe nannu pAlimpa -- though that too is too subtle for Fort -- evaru rA would've been good!
Srikanth followed the vocalists' phrases very well. I would have liked a crisper kharaharapriya and more leisurely mOhanam in the solo versions. While Sri Seshachari's mOhanam was very elaborate, it wasn't that deeply impacting, somehow. Maybe his cold impaled it.
I was very impressed with BCM's accompaniment as well as tani. I think I might attend some concerts just because he's accompanying.
I liked lalitA, mOhanam and aThANa swarams. The kharaharapriya swarams ended in random notes -- I would notate the line they sang as a danda (iIrc), but they used ma, sa as well as da-ending swarams in addition to a few pa-ending swarams early on. It was irritating.
+ I personally don't feel pratimadhyama is absolutely vital for a concert. In fact, most other swarasthAnas are.
Some of the artistes are singing songs on Sita Devi too, but even Anjaneyar is left out. Squims observes that such a song list leaves out Shyama Shastri -- which is very astute, and probably one of the main reasons!