Bellary M Raghavendra @ Sri Rama Seva Mandali , Koramangala

[braindrain]

Vocal : Bellary M Raghavendra

Violin : M S Govindaswamy

Mrudangam : B C Manjunath

Ghatam : N S Krishnaprasad

Song list:

01. vanajAkshi ninnE kOri ( varNam ) – kalyANi – Pallavi Gopala Iyer ( O )

02. SLOkam ( rAmAya rAmabhadrAya rAmachandrAya vEdhasE ) – nATa

jaya jAnaki kAntha – nATa – Purandara Dasa ( O )

03. SrI raghukulamaNDu putti – hamsadhwani – Thyagaraja ( A ,N,S )

neraval & swara @ ‘ parama bhaktulanu pAlanamu sEyu’

04. rAma rAma yani chintincha rA dA – yAgapriya - Bellary Raghavendrachar ( A )

05. banTu rIti kOlu – hamsanadam – Thyagaraja ( O,N,S )

neraval & swara @’ rAma nAmamanE vara khadgamivi ‘

06. sujana jIvanA – khamAs -Thyagaraja

07. dwaitamu sukhamA – rIti gauLa – Thyagaraja ( A )

08. pAlintuvO pAlimpavO – kAntAmaNi – Thyagaraja ( O,S )

09. nannu brOchutakevarunnAru – SankarAbharaNam – Mysore Vasudevachar ( A,N,S,T )

neraval & swara @ ‘ karunAkara akhila jagadAdhAra SrI raghuvara ‘

10. rAmanukku mannan muDi – hindOLam – Arunachala Kavi

11. rAma rAma rAma rAma rAmA yennirO – shubha pantuvarALi – Purandara Dasa

12. rAm nAm ras pIjE – ? – Meera Bhajan

13. tAnOm nOm tadara thilAna – rAgamAlika – BMK

14. mangaLam jayamangaLam – madhyamAvati – Purandara Dasa


I thought more people should know and listen to this brilliant musician, hence putting it here. AIR program manager at Mysore, from the family of illustrious musicians, rich voice, abundance manodharma and vast repertoire, his music is always a treat to hear. Yesterday's concert was no different.

[ganeshkant]

I have listened him once in person in Bangalore in a rAmanavami concert where he sang yAgapriyA.Recently I heard him in DD national on a Saturday @ 8 a.m.(Rasikas may note that DD national broadcasts concerts every Saturday @ 8 a.m alternating CM & HM.).He sang a brilliant hindolam - sAmaja,giving utmost priority to the lyrics.A great artist.

[arasi]

Jayan,
Thank you for introducing this vocalist whose music has to be heard, it seems! Is he from an andhra family of musicians? Bellary makes me think that, but the name Raghavendra is very karnataka!

He obviously does not give as many concerts. Otherwise we would have known about him.

Ganeshkant,
Good to hear from you these days! Thanks for the info about DD National. When I was in India, I did catch a program of R&G after reading about it on Rasikas.org. Will pass on the message to friends in India who can't go to concerts that much. I had a feeling I heard the sisters in the evening. Did not know there were morning broadcasts too on DD national.

[Sreeni Rajarao]

Arasi avare
Vidvan Raghavendra is Bellary Venkateshachar's son.
We have discussed about him before. If I remember right, there is a thread under Vidvans section.

[rajeshnat]

Jayan,
Thank you for introducing this vocalist whose music has to be heard, it seems! Is he from an andhra family of musicians? Bellary makes me think that, but the name Raghavendra is very karnataka!

Many of them mistake Bellary is from andhrapradesh for many years I used to think the same. Bellary is actually a district in karnataka though the region is called hyderabad karnataka.

[kssr]

I was there in the concert. Met brain drain as well, who is BR's fan. Suddha sangeetham, meaning no apaswarams at all. Quite popular among Bhakti Sangeetha priyas. Hall was full with Rama bhakthas. Not very popular among hardcore CM rasikas, which is what brain drain is regretting here as well as in his blog. But I think there is good reason. Voice can by no means be called sweet , in fact quite harsh. For example a sweet composition like Sujana jeevana which is built up with mellinam words (soft sounding, in Tamil description of poetry) and almost no vallinam (hard sounding, KA,CHA, TA, THA,PA RRA) one would expect graceful, soft and melodious presentation but alas.. The grinding of words incl RRRRRRRaama, is difficult to enjoy. I stayed till rithigowla and left, with prasadam, of course. Good decision, as I understand the main was sankarabharanam, far from being my favourite. SRI. CNC was ok in violin, BCM was good trying to smooth the rough edges to the extent possible. Will be an interesting concert for about 1.5 hours.