PV Parameswaran@mahalingapuram (ayyappan)on Nov 23rd,2014

[rajeshnat]

PV Parameswaran@mahalingapuram (ayyappan temple)on Nov 23rd, 2014
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Vocal : PV Parameswaran
Violin : MA Sundareswaran
Mrudangam : K R Ganesh
Ghatam : Trichy Murali

Concert duration/Day : ~ 2 hrs /Sunday
Concert Type : Nirvana (prime evening concert , no concert to follow)
Sabha/Hall : Held in ayyappan temple, mahalingapuram,nungambakam,chennai
Crowd : Big floating crowd in temple with about 40 rasikas facing the stage
Ticket : Free

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3. pavana guru(S) - hamsanandi - lalita dasar
swaras for 2 mins
4. alaipAyudhE(R,S) - kAnadA - OVK
4 mins of alapana and brief violin return
3 mins swaras

5. sabari malayiL sooryodhayam(R) - anandabhairavi - ???
3 mins alapana
6. eN nenjiL paLLi kondavan sree ranganathan - ?? -???

7. chinnanjiru kannamma - ragamALigA - bharathiyAr
8. swami sharanam ayyappA - ?? - ???

9. kaliyuga varadhan - brindavani - PT
10. kurai ondrum illai - ragamaliga - rajaji

11. jagathjanani - ratipathipriya - ghanam krishna iyer
12A. viruththam
12B. muruganai kAna kann ayiram vendum - bhimplas -??

I went late about 20 to 25 minutes late. Few pluses and many minuses of this concert

Pluses:
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# I am listening to PV Parameswaran for the first time , the texture and his voice is very much like KJ yesudas. Voice certainly has power and most of the times has melody/sowkhyam.

# The kAnadA swaras and the pAvana guru in hamsanadam was sung quite well

# The team of accompanist were indeed wonderful. Particularly trichy murali who showed so much of controlled aggression. MAS took quite a bit of liberty in swara exchanges and he played well. KR ganesh had a lovely nadham and did pep up well

Minuses:
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# I had no idea about this musician wanted to hear him after I read the newspaper. I just happened to browse his website . One thing that caught my attention was that he learnt from KVN and TMT. I thought parameswaran would be a lovely amalgam of TMT and KVN - who have intense carnatic sathiyam in their music . But I did not even have an ounce of classicism along those two illustrious gurus.

# Sangathis were too light and there was not much of carnatic idioms .Aurally I could nerver map it as a classical concert .

# Depth was not there ,his music had too much of syllables that did not get blended as intense sangathis

# alapanas were just ok , it touched on the raga swaroopam yes - but quite superficial. He referring a big diary turning pages for every song just did not help.

# As I came out , i had a feel that The concert had more of a tv program feel where many songs came up from a tarangini devotional tape casette of KJ Yesudas.

Overall a mediocre to good concert .

[braindrain]

Rajesh,

5. shabari malayil tanka sUryOdayam , written by Vayalar Rama Varma. Music by Devarajan.

here is the link to the lyrics. http://www.hindudevotionalblog.com/2008 ... yrics.html

[CRama]

Sabari malayil is from the Malayalam film Sabarimala Ayyappan in a lilting Anandabhairavi

[sureshvv]

I have heard this vidwan at the Thyagaraja Vidwat Samajam and he was quite classical there. The venue probably impacted the content of the concert.