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Violin : A kanyAkumari
Violin Support: Embar Kannan
Mrudangam : kv prasad
Kanjira : Amrit
Concert duration/Day : 2 hours and 30 mins/thursday
Concert Type : Nirvana (prime evening concert , no concert to follow)
Sabha/Hall : sree rama seva mandali/Fort high school,chamarajpet,bangalore
1. ???? - hamsadhwani -??
swaras for 8 mins
2. rAma bhakti sAmrAjyam - sudda bangala -T
03 duDukugala -gowlai -T
04 Smarane sukhmu?? - janaranjani?? -T
05 nAdalOluDai(R S)- kalyANavasantham -T
alapana for 7 mins and swaras for 8 mins
06 mAmava paTTAbhi rAmA - maNirangu - MD
07.kamalApata kula(R S) - brindavanasaranga - T
8 mins alapana and 7 mins swaras
08.bhAgayanayya - chandrajyothi -T
09A.entarA???(R S T)- harikAmbodhi - T
09B. tani
A kanyakumari is one of the most versatile artists . Her tutelage with Smt MLV must have got her immense experience and I am assuming with that she has also got the briga embellishments that you get from MLV and her guru GNB .Also with her roots in vizianagaram, I am assuming she has taken a lot of aesthetic play from an extremely accomplished dwaram venkataswamy naidu.
But unfortunately she is a kind of vidushi who has taken a choice of perhaps tuning her violin a bit more like saxophone and she always has a dil maangE more attitude for volume.
. This is the first concert that I am attending in this old sabha @ bangalore which is celebrating its 75th year. Embar Kannan has lovely nadham and the combo of AK -EK had a lot of pluses.Ak started with a sparkling hamsadhwani.I am not sure if I have ever heard the krithi ,i thought it was abhista varada but still not sure , the swaras were excellent till few sangathis where there was some kind of fast bowing which i thought robbed the faint hum that I was doing in my mind of that wani.
The #2 was a sparkling bowing , I never get bored with MMI patented rAma bhakthi , she played wonderfully and she continued with a gowlai pancharatna , certainly there is a charm when you start successively with T's numbers .
The next I think was in janaranjani , not very sure but it just passed . The first fairly main alapana was in kalyanavasantham. I was assuming it was a tribute to shri LGJ.Both of them alternted in alapana and swaras and it was well done .In particular I liked embar kannan bit more may be the reason was the tone of his violin did have a more natural violin tune.
The best of best was her kamalAptakula , I have heard an occassion before to hear her brindavana saranga pallavi. AK is a really superb vidushi when she plays brindAvana sArangA, the brigas were beautiful and the krithi with swaras was sparkling.With an emotive filler in chandrajyothi ,The main was in harikAmbOdhi. I could not hear that fully and I think she played entarA .I did not hear fully the tani as I had to leave.
Embar kannan played very beautifully. WHile Ak's violin was having a tone that had a touch of sax , embar kannan had a tone that was more resembling a more traditional violin. His anticipation without losing the speed of AK during returns was noteworthy.The percussion team had its pluses and minuses .At times I felt the percussion especially the kanjira was very loud .
If Ak can do atleast two things that would make her concert more enjoyable
1. The volume is definitely on a consistently high side.To an extent I moved in this big hall(rather it looks like a stadium) to a place where volume was bit low and kind of mitigated. But certainly when all four play in tandem the volume is bit pounding in the head
2.Ak perhaps has tuned her violin to have a sound that resembles saxophone. The novelty is there but I certainly missed the divine nadham of a violin which keeps me more hooked.
Her creative spark and control is superb and the concert was embellished with embar kannan violin support.
Overall a very good concert.
