Sandeep Narayan at Toronto, April 14th

[Lakshman]

a 2 3/4 hr. concert with Mysore V.Srikanth on the violin, Neyveli G.Venkatesh on the mrdanga and Nirmal Narayan on the morsing.

Song list:
karuNimpa idi manci (tv)-shahAnA-Vinai Kuppier
ninnu jUci dhanyuDaiti-saurASTra-Patnam Subramania Iyer-S
tyAgarAja yOga vaibhavam-Anandabhairavi-Dikshitar-A
Emayya rAma-kAmbhOji-Bhadrachalam Ramdas-A, N at naruDavani naruladama, S
tEril ERinAn-kalyANi-Papanasham Shivan
RTP tODi/mOhana - kANa ezhundODi vArIr mOhana vELaiyil Ananda naTanam-c/tripuTa tALA, tani
AnjanAnandana vIram-shlOka in AbhOgi kAnaDA followed by anjanIcyA suta-abhang in the same rAgA
cinnam siru kiLiyE-rAgamAlikA-Subramania Bharati
tadingiNatOm dhIm (t)-chandrahyOti-K.S.Raghunathan
mangaLam

[rajeshnat]

Nirmal Narayan on the morsing
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RTP tODi/mOhana - kANa ezhundODi vADi mOhana vELaiyil Ananda naTanam-k/tripuTa tALA, tani

This is nice , not heard this pallavi before . Keep it going sandeep, also I did not know that Nirmal plays morsing

[mahavishnu]

Thank you L-ji.

The pallavi was actually in Chatusra triputa 4 kalai (essentially Adi) and then sped up to two-kalai when he did the trikalam and one kalai for the final swarams and the tani.

Also, I thought the pallavi line was " kANa ezhundODi vArIr.." -- at least that is the way it sounded to me.

It was an excellent concert by Sandeep. The accompanists were extraordinary and playing in good company brought out the best in Sandeep. He has improved both in substance and style considerably since the last time I heard him about 3-4 years ago. One can distinctly see touches of Sanjay Subrahmanyan in just about everything he does musically. Even his hand gestures and the way he compliments his fellow musicians is very Sanjay-esque. He far exceeded my expectations!

Mysore Srikant's alapanais and returns were uniformly superb. I loved the MSG style fingering, evident in the tAnam. Neyveli Venkatesh played with great anticipation, and his familiarity with Sanjay's music was apparent.

The symmetrically structured chandrajyoti tillana was new to me. Lji, I assume KS Raghunathan is a contemporary composer?

[rajeshnat]

Lji, I assume KS Raghunathan is a contemporary composer?

Yes he is. He worked in HMV(He is also called HMV Raghunathan).He was also known as a very good sound engineer apart from him being a vaggeyakkara. IIRC,Few numbers of his are sung by Sudha and Nithyashree.

There is a writeup about him in this url http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/arti ... epage=true
Here is his photo http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/arti ... iewImage=1

[Lakshman]

mahavishnu: Thanks for the corrections. vArIr makes more sense. I have amended my post.
K.S.Raghunathan has also composed a tillAnA in karNaranjani. Sudha Raghunathan has rendered it.

[mahavishnu]

Ah, I see. I had not realized that HMV Raghu was the same person as Sri KS Raghunathan. Thanks for the info, Rajesh and Lji.
Here is a nice video of him discussing his long association of recording Smt MSS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNdkqyJRnNE

[Lakshman]

The nalinakAnti tillAna is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU2-BwQ76d0