"Play it again, Sam"- your favourite Carnatic compositions!

[rshankar]

kAlai tUkki ninRADum deivamE, right?

[maduraimini]

Selecting only five from this vast ocean is tough. But here are the five I like:

1. Kamakshi- Bhairavi Swarajathi- Shyama Sastry
2. Badalika theera- Reethigowla- Thyagaraja
3. Sri Venkatesam- Todi- Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar
4. Annapoorne Visalakshi- Sama- Dikshitar
5. Bhavayami Raghuramam- Ragamalika- Swathi Tirunal

[vasanthakokilam]

kAlai tUkki ninRADum deivamE, right?

oops, yes. :-$ Fixed. Thx

[srikanthj]

Selecting just 5 is a tough exercise..,and not just because of the number. I find that, in my mind, each composition is linked strongly to a specific rendition. And it is tough for me to separate the composition from my favorite rendition.

So here are my five (with artist in parenthesis):
Jagadodharana - kApi - Purandaradasa (KVN)
Entara nee thana - Harikamboji - Thyagaraja (DKP)
Venkatasaila Vihara - Hamir Kalyani - Subbaraya Sastri (Doreswami Iyengar)
Giripai nelakonna - Sahana - Thyagaraja (MDR)
Chakkani Raja - Karaharapriya - Thyagaraja (MMI)

[Rsachi]

Analysis of your inputs!!
Link to the spreadsheet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/57raygycfkkxy ... tions.xlsx
Summary page shown here:


1. 35 respondents
2. Only first five choices taken = 175 choices
3. Some compositions chosen by many:
Akhilandeshwari -3, Kamakshi Bhairavi swarajathi -4, Chakkaniraja/Intasaukhyamani/Swararagasudha - 3 each, Sarojadalanetri-3, ....
4. Thyagaraja overwhelming favourite (73!) followed by Dikshitar and Shyama Shastri
5. Many Papanasam Sivan and Swati Tirunal compositions!

Please get your favourite musical files online at : http://www.sangeethapriya.org
You can get most of the lyrics here: http://www.karnatik.com

[arasi]

Super job, Sachi

Do we take mahA kavi Subramanya Bhararthi for granted?? At least, this quick sampling seems to reflect that!

Now's the time for those who chose their fives (very reluctantly, naming them among their many favorites) to think of which ones they could have named, those even more dear to them! (

Next, I hope you will consider our naming the five favorites in each rAgA. That, even I can think of, I guess!

After all, our essential piece of luggage to a take to a desert island will be loads of music

[Rsachi]

Arasi,
I believe Subbudu said if marooned on an island, all he would need to have beside was a Sudha Raghunathan cassette (and a solar powered tape deck )plus Kannadasan poetry.

[vgovindan]

Thyagaraja overwhelming favourite (73!)

E panikO janmincitinani nIvencavaladu, SrI rAma;

vAlmIkAdi munulu narulu ninnu varNinciri;
nAyAsa tIrunA?
mElmiyaiyuNDu; sad-bhaktulu meccudurE;
tyAgarAja nuta; (nEnE panikO)

http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.in ... averi.html

[parivadini]

@Sachi- You have no idea how valuable this data analytics is for us at Parivadini!! Thanks & Nandri Hai!!

[varsha]

have you come across one with a nereval at 'mIna lOcani pASa mOcini...'?

pls look up sangeethapriya - tadepalli concerts . You will find a track with this
I have put up the neraval portion only , here ,
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/1mg63ws ... alyANi.mp3

[Rsachi]

Parivadini team,
I dont know if you followed last year the survey I conducted on "The Substance of Carnatic Music".. thread here..
http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... it=+survey

If you want to revisit the details, they are archived here:
http://bit.ly/CMsurvey2013

More recently I did another survey:
http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... it=+survey

You can see where I am coming from and where I am going with this....

In my opinion this was a seminal study and will help a lot of people in the CM world.
all the best!

[narayan]

Late to the party, but ...

Sri Matrubhootam (Kannada)
Naajeevadhara (Bilahari)
Koniyadina (Kambhoji)
Meena Lochana (Dhanyasi)
Brihaspate (Athana)

[vasanthakokilam]

FYI. As per request, the purvikalyani/gamakakriya related posts have been moved to http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 53#p265153

[carnatricks]

what an interesting thread. some songs i have never heard before. eager to check them out now. heres my list of top 5

01 ananda natesha - thodi
02 shanthamuleka - sama
03 dhinamani - harikambodi
04 emanadhichevo - sahana
05 sooryamurthe - sowrashtram