M.D. Ramanathan (MDR)

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 10 Oct 2010, 06:14

ragam-talam wrote:Nice! http://chowdaiahandparvati.blogspot.com ... athan.html

Indeed. Especially the Surutti ( Angarakam ashrayamyaham ) is wonderful. MDR slows down the tempo just the right amount to give himself the necessary space so he can give it his special touch and make it his own.

PALLOORKAR · Post by **PALLOORKAR** » 12 Dec 2010, 23:05

on 9th december(thursday) there was a kutchery by Amritha Venkatesh at Poornathrayeesa Temple, Tripoonithura. She rendered the kriti "Paripahimam Poornathrayeesa" in bilahari. It is very nice composition.

Pratyaksham Bala · Post by **Pratyaksham Bala** » 17 Dec 2010, 06:45

rAma rAma - nIlAmbari
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK5jutuCN9E

sakthi.balan · Post by **sakthi.balan** » 28 Apr 2011, 09:30

Can someone tell me who is the composer of the Sloga Ratnakarosti Sadanam sung by MDR. Also can someone give me the lyrics of the sloga....

venkatakailasam · Post by **venkatakailasam** » 04 May 2011, 19:48

I could not come across any thread under Vidwans for MDR.

rAma rAma - nIlAmbari can be listened at my blog 'e'-swara at

http://myblogkumara.blogspot.com/

at this link:

http://myblogkumara.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... an_30.html

There are 68 audio files of MDR.
rama rama is at sl.no. 031

venkatakailasam

sruthi · Post by **sruthi** » 08 May 2011, 02:44

MAJOR SCOOP!
Recently I came across the famous 1-hour VIDEO (yes!) of MDR's 1977 house concert at Adayar - uploaded at youtube!
http://youtu.be/_SVBjp_gJlo

He is accompanied by a young TN Krishnan - and a very young looking UKS on mridangam!
This is truly a treasure for music lovers.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 08 May 2011, 21:01

MDR is an intersection of sowkhyam and aggression, aggression not in speed but all inside him bringing every sangathi that "carnatic" weight and coupled with an exquisite "masculine" voice that creates a little more sustained aural feeling. See where the mike is kept atleast 4 to 5 feet away from shri MDR's mouth , perhaps the mike was kept closer to MDR's nAbhi

.

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 09 May 2011, 20:43

Thank you Sruthi .

sramaswamy · Post by **sramaswamy** » 10 May 2011, 23:25

It is actually a commerical VHS tape available at
Volume IV: South Indian Classical Music House Concert with M. D. RAMANATHAN (vocalist), T.N. Krishnan (violin) and Umayalpuram Sivaraman (mridangam)

sruthi · Post by **sruthi** » 21 May 2011, 01:37

Sri MDR was born on 20th May 1923. He would have been 88 today.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 21 May 2011, 02:39

The Yadukulakambhoji charanam of the NavaRagaMalika varnam is too small in the hands of many musicians to bring out YKK but MDR does an amazing job with that.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 24 May 2011, 10:28

While watching the link posted by Sruthi, I stumbled upon this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tVoB_CzZgA
Begada at its best! Wow!!

viswanathmysore · Post by **viswanathmysore** » 29 May 2011, 06:31

Are his compositions sung by other musicians ?
Who are his performing disciples ?

Enna_Solven · Post by **Enna_Solven** » 29 May 2011, 09:36

His sAgara shayana vibhO-bAgeshri is sung by many including KVN.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 29 May 2011, 19:50

VK, you are right. MDR is the only one who seems to bring yadukulakAmbOji into that varNam! That one hour concert is nice but not too probing; I like the elaborate varNam more than any other item. TrilOka mAtAnanu is sung beautifully, too. Of course, MDR's gestures and facial expressions are almost worthy of being classified as nATyam! (OK, I exaggerate.)

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 29 May 2011, 19:52

While sAgara sayana vibhO is a brilliant composition, I have a soft spot for several other MDR compositions like his enna kuTRam seidEnO in husEni (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdbevDaSYco) and vElavanE in sahAna.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 29 May 2011, 20:35

Of course, MDR's gestures and facial expressions are almost worthy of being classified as nATyam! (OK, I exaggerate.)

Yes, very much so.. The dictionary meaning of abhinaya is "indication of a passion or purpose or expression of sentiment by look and gesture" and MDR fits that bill!! He can not help get into the character and so bhAvam in his music is natural.

What I am realizing over time is this: For MDR, gamaka is not (just) a musical attribute but a tool for expression of the sentiment, thala avartha is not (just) a rhythmical attribute but a tool for appropriately proportioning the sentiment and emotion in meaningful chunks etc. Similarly for other melodic and laya attributes.. In his music, they are all deployed for a purpose beyond just music.

If he can exhibit/cast other's compositions in such terms, his own compositions should be even more reflective of those things. Glimpses of that can be seen in the compositions you have referenced above.

shripathi_g · Post by **shripathi_g** » 31 May 2011, 12:28

Was going through the MDR thread on sangeetham.com http://web.archive.org/web/200104182119 ... 00248.html

Very nostalgic! I think I had just started listening to MDR at that time. 10 years later, I'm a MDR addict. Regardless of who I listen to, I just go back to MDR. There is an inherent sowkhyam in his music that I cannot find in others except Madurai Mani Iyer. I listen to his varnams every day on my way to work and I can never tire of them. People just talk about his sahana or yadukulakambodhi but I feel that he owned pretty much every raga he sang in his own unique way. One of his Balagopala renditions with neraval at Drona Karna Duryodhanadhi hara is just out of this world. After listening to his Amba Kamakshi numerous times, I've become a Bhairavi addict too. Very few people talk about his Koniyadina. Having listened to pretty much every Koniyadina rendition available, only MDR and Sanjay sing all the sangathis. I highly recommend MDR's rendition to get a good dose of Kamboji.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 31 May 2011, 12:36

One of his Balagopala renditions with neraval at Drona Karna Duryodhanadhi hara is just out of this world.

In one such Balagopala renditions ( which I can not locate now, I will try later ), the beginning itself, the first few seconds, is just awesome and quite special.

advaitin · Post by **advaitin** » 31 May 2011, 20:47

Hi VK

here is an MDR rendering which keeps me stunned everytime i hear it. Maybe someone would like it on the forum, i would say very unique the way the kriti is delivered. Believe it is MSG on the violin, do not have details of accompanists. apologies for that.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ah62lbc28ccac4g

Enna_Solven · Post by **Enna_Solven** » 01 Jun 2011, 06:58

Thank you advaitin.

Here is a noise-cleaned version of your upload. No good deed shall go unpunished

http://www.mediafire.com/?9iuqlvrwo21uadj

Very powerful version rendered in his own unique way. I have not heard this song by him before.

advaitin · Post by **advaitin** » 01 Jun 2011, 20:56

Enna Solven

that was a nice one

I agree, i do have another rendering somewhere of his with me. But this one is unique, the other one is more along common lines. I can try and search for the same. But i rarely go to that, this is the one that keeps me on a high.

here is another piece which i would call smooth, may not exude the power of the earlier one.
http://www.mediafire.com/?d46tnrsdahi0lre

Enna_Solven · Post by **Enna_Solven** » 02 Jun 2011, 08:44

thank you.

ranjanimalavi · Post by **ranjanimalavi** » 03 Jun 2011, 09:15

This concert is itself amazing. I thought the violin was TNK and mridangam G. Durai
One of the beautiful bhairavi's and excellent khamas, nerval is too good, and a fast paced hindolam.
It took me several years to get back the bhairavi neraval, but its still not salvaged fully.

01-Varnam-Ninnu Kori-Mohanam-RSI.mp3
02-Navagraha-Diwakara Tanujam-YadukulaKambhoji-MD.mp3
03-Thera Theeyaga-GowliPanthu-T.mp3
04a-Seethapathe-Kamas-T.mp3
04b-Seethapathe-Kamas-T.mp3
05-Samaja Vara Gamana-Hindolam-T.mp3
07-Balagopala-Bhairavi-MD.mp3

Raman

advaitin · Post by **advaitin** » 03 Jun 2011, 09:21

hi ranjanimalavi

i would love to get that entire concert if it is available. by the way, once i was listening to this at the airport. I had embar kannan as a co traveller and requested him to identify the violinist. he heard the whole piece, said it was MSG for sure he even wanted a copy

ranjanimalavi · Post by **ranjanimalavi** » 03 Jun 2011, 09:35

I have around 110 concerts of MDR got from so many peoples (few more yet to be converted from tapes).

I live in bangalore. You can copy it from me.

Raman

mdraddict · Post by **mdraddict** » 18 Jul 2011, 02:21

I am looking for all the swarajathis of shyama shastry rendered by mdr. I got the bhairavi kamakshi. Any one has the other two.

I am also collecting own compositions of mdr. So far, very few is available in youtube or in sangeethapriya.

cpblog · Post by **cpblog** » 13 Aug 2011, 05:46

Respected Rasikas,

This is a second posting of a Vidwan M.D. Ramanathan's concert from "Parvathi" Mysore.
It was held on April 7, 1974 and also features M. Chandrasekharan, Vellore Ramabhadran and H.P. Ramachar.
The music is continuous and the audio very good but we are only able to feature 1 Hr : 20mins of this
beautiful concert.

Please welcome @ http://chowdaiahandparvati.blogspot.com/

Thanking you,
CPBlog team

shripathi_g · Post by **shripathi_g** » 17 Aug 2011, 09:19

Thanks for the concert cpblog! I'm listening to this concert for the first time. Though I've heard all these krithis rendered by him previously, in this concert, he provides a different interpretation which was very enjoyable.

cpblog · Post by **cpblog** » 18 Aug 2011, 06:13

Sripathi, Welcome and happy listening!

rsrini · Post by **rsrini** » 26 Aug 2011, 21:57

@Ranjanimalavi
This is an MDR-MSG concert in Coimbatore.

sweetsong · Post by **sweetsong** » 26 Oct 2011, 08:10

A tribute to M.D.Ramanathan in Malayalam by Prince Rama Varma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9pcEjr0 ... ideo_title

vpp · Post by **vpp** » 18 Apr 2012, 19:33

Any body having a Shankari shankuru (shyamashastry) by MDR?

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 19 Apr 2012, 06:53

Any body having a Shankari shankuru (shyamashastry) by MDR?

http://www.mediafire.com/?5dbcu84nk4iq2e1

vpp · Post by **vpp** » 19 Apr 2012, 15:52

Hi Varsha, Thank you so much...............I have been dying to get this...............the best shankari shankuru I ever heard...............

thank you again and again..........

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 18 May 2012, 07:19

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/article3428442.ece

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 19 May 2012, 08:36

rAga ratna mAlikacE ranjillun(a)Ta hari Sata
Lord hari shines forth adorned with the garland made of hundreds of exquisite rAgas composed as a means of fording the Ocean of Worldly Existence for redemption of this tyAgarAja.
These kIrtanas contain the true meanings of vEdas, the six SAstras, the (eighteen) epics and Agamas; singing these kIrtanas leads one in the true path of God realization following which the great ascetics attain the divine bliss; best of devotees sing these kIrtanas collectively.
Therefore, O folks! Come, let us attain all the fortunes of life by worshipping Lord Hari devoutly with these kIrtanas
Credit : V Govindan
---------------------------
Yes indeed . MDR .. Lived , true to all these ideals . Continues to inspire us . Years after he departed for a better world .

http://www.mediafire.com/?m1dcnocg4ois623

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 25 May 2012, 09:25

Tribute to MDR

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/article3451530.ece

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 21 Jun 2012, 06:48

What a raga ! What a krithi ! What a singer !
The Gods must have all descended to make this happen on that day.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cbn7zd7mdeztd28

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 22 Jun 2012, 07:02

Another couple of articles on MDR

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns ... 554833.ece

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns ... 554211.ece

venkatakailasam · Post by **venkatakailasam** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:18

Sankaree Sankuru Saveri composed by Shyama Sastri...

Rendered by Shri MD Ramanathan..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xOTGRNuq5w

venkatakailasam · Post by **venkatakailasam** » 05 Oct 2012, 14:08

trilOka mAtA.

raga: paraju. cApu tALA....shyama shastry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sihdy0Eg ... r_embedded

shripathi_g · Post by **shripathi_g** » 10 Nov 2012, 22:34

Has MDR sung Koluvai? I heard a very brief Koluvai from him as part of a lec-dem. Wondering if he has given it elaborate treatment. I'm looking for Janani Mamava as well. I saw it recommended for me on Youtube and I meant to listen to it later but it has sort of disappeared.

rahul4liv · Post by **rahul4liv** » 10 Nov 2012, 23:25

Janani Mamava on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrPMiCD8gZQ&feature=plcp

venkatakailasam · Post by **venkatakailasam** » 18 Nov 2012, 16:49

At MUSIC ACADEMY-1964 ....Sri.Palakkad Mani Iyer-Mridangam...1.54 hrs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H35ylwT7 ... ure=relmfu

A one hour concert...with Sri.T.N.Krishnan-violin
Sri.Umayalpuram Sivaraman-Mridangam...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SVBjp_gJlo

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 19 Jan 2013, 04:33

MDR's

mOhanam RTP with MSG:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/btee4r

a divine yadukulakAmbOji with (according to the label) R.K. Venkatarama Shastry:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/vp4z88
(Full concert: http://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/Yo5P ... YPWtE21xoy )

shripathi_g · Post by **shripathi_g** » 23 Apr 2014, 10:16

Hi,

I'm looking for a particular rendition of MDR's Aparadhamula in Lathangi. This particular version starts off at the anupallavi (Krupachesi na). Maybe it's an old recording where the pallavi was cut off?

balakk · Post by **balakk** » 28 Jun 2014, 14:50

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/vijayago ... y_Concert/

I'm not particularly a big fan of MDR but this concert was sublime. I didn't know MDR sang like this at all

The vasanta is still ringing in my ears. And what accompaniment! 60s must have been the golden decade of CM for sure.

Purist · Post by **Purist** » 30 Jun 2014, 10:33

MDR's rendering of Hariharaputram (vasantha) has a beauty of its own. Very rarily can you find it being sung in chowka kalam

venkatakailasam · Post by **venkatakailasam** » 30 Jun 2014, 11:40

Is there any audio for his own composition Saraswathi in Raga Kamas??

Some of his own compositions are here..

concert 40-MDR own compositions
http://myblogkumara.blogspot.in/2013/11 ... isten.html

MDR 002-Neerupamujuchi-varnam-Thodi-MDR
MDR 005-Anandanatana-kedaram-MDR
MDR 008-MAyamma-Ranjani-rUpaka-MDR
MDR 010-HariyumHaranum-Atana-Aadi-MDR
MDR 011-GuruCharanam-Kannada-Aadi-MDR
MDR 015-VELAVANE UNAKKU SAHANA-ADI MDR
MDR 018-Sri-thyagaraja Yadukula-kambhodhi-MDR
MDR 023-thillAnA-kApI MDR