Suryaprakash@MFAC on Dec 29th,2012
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Vocal : Suryaprakash
Violin : M A Sundareswaran
Mrudangam : Tanjore Murugabhupathi
Kanjira : B S Purushottaman
Concert duration/Day : 2 hrs /Saturday
Concert Type : Non Nirvana (concert to follow)
1.varuvArO (S) - shyamA - GKB
4 mins swaras
2. mAmava sadA janani(S) - KAnadA - ST
4 mins swaras
3. enta muddo enta sogusO (R) - bindumAlini - T
5 mins alApana and 2 mins violin return
4. jUthA murArE (N) - Arabi - T
neraval in akama sancharuta for 7 mins
5. sevikka vEnDum ayyA(S) - AndOlikA - GKB
8 mins swaras
6. RTP in quad-core four hamsa ragas
The pallavi in misrachapu talam had these lines
Anandi ni sadhA pAhi
dhwani swaroopini
sunAda niranjani
sAma gAna viNodini
shree hamsa
20 mins ragam, 7 mins tAnam and 25 mins pallavi + swaras in the same quad 4 ragas.
7A, petra thAi thanai - sahAnA + shanmughapriyA + sivaranjani + jonpuri
7B. eppO varuvAro - jonpuri - GKB
8. madhyamavati ragam
It was a ticketed concert for exactly 2 hours. It had its pluses and definitely minuses
+ BinduMalini was very emotively sung with a real high shruthi suddham and his pitch was wonderful
+ Liked his neraval in Arabi , a touch of maharajapuram school was indeed there in neraval.
+ 4 raga rtp in hamsA was nice , especially in Tanam where hamsAnandi was non metered and the next 3 hamsa dhwani/nAdam/viNodini was metered with mrudangam.
+ AndOlika fast swaras was brilliant , it had shades of what he sang in rasikas concert , but definitely after first few notes that long pattern for about 3 minutes was very TRS'ish.
+ Viruttam was crisp especially sivaranjani that gives a touch of intense emote.
- BSP's kanjira was almost never heard
- Unsettling mAmava sadhA was just sAdhA (ordinary) KAnadA
- For the first two numbers shyama and kAnadA , heard a faint murugabhoopathi.It was almost like suryaprakash and MAS performing without percussion .
- MAs play was bit fusion like , bit too fast with his string not having too much of nAdham .
- very distracting crowd from the second half of the concert as visakahari was scheduled next.They could atleast not allow those rasikas who have bought tickets in the side stage.
- Certainly the team could have performed better , there was just too much of sound problems at the beginning, and once when it was set right there was too much distraction.
+ There is a delicacy called ammini kozhukattai that I ate , less oil lot of right spice and garnish . It just rocked
+ Heard a bit of visakA hari for about 45 minutes , her theme was sundara kAndam - hanuath sevai or something . She started pavanAthmaja , the aiNdile Onru (kambar viruththam) and explained Lord hanuman's service(sevai) . She then went to some rare poornalalita after a touch and go with jagadA in nattai. Her singing was just ok, but her lecture was just getting better when she explained bhakthan and bhagavan .
Overall a very good concert for an exact 2 hours.