Nisha Rajagopal for Charsur @ NGS Mini, 24/12/2015

[sankark]

? violin (listed as Charulatha Ramanujam), Delhi Sairam mridangam, Chandrasekara Sharma ghatam

yOcana - darbAr - Adi - T
*E rAmuni - vakuLAbharaNam - m cApu - T (rs, 14th)
vanaja nayana - kEdaragowlai - Adi - T (rs@pallavi). voice is so good, especially in higher reaches and she kept mostly in the upper reaches for the Alapanai. fireworks in the final swaram passage
*naraharim AshrayAmi - jayasuddhamAlavi - t triputai - MD (hAtakAmbari, 18th)
brOvavammA bangAru - nIlAmbari - m cApu/t triputai - SS
*rAmA rAma guNa sImA - s'madhyamam - Adi - ST (rns@muni mAnasa, explosive tani)
virutham (mAlOn muruganai from kandar alangAram) in thOdi followed by
*kA guhA - kOsalam - Adi - KI
mangaLam

Good to very good one. s'madhyamam - there is one by OVK (asaindhAdum mayil?). Would have loved to hear that one instead of this one. Any others in this rAgam?

* - refer to the notes in NJ Nandini's concert review.

[HarishankarK]

Ninne nera nammitinayya - Mysore Vasydevachar, Natajana Paripalaka of Tyagarajar and Kamaksi Kamakoti are other songs sung as submain or main respectively. Rama Rama if sung well is the best choice to sing as main. Asaindaum mayil is good song no doubt but more suitable as filler or thukkada because of the tempo of the song. It does not have the required gait for a main song.

[sankark]

Rama Rama if sung well is the best choice to sing as main. Asaindaum mayil is good song no doubt but more suitable as filler or thukkada because of the tempo of the song. It does not have the required gait for a main song.

rAmA rAmA - agree; but this has been overdone by many multiple times. So something afresh would be welcome.

On asaindAdum, au contraire, me thinks that "asai pOdum Avinangal kandu andha adhisayathil silai pOla ninru" would lend itself to a gripping and superlative nereval with elaborate swarams fitting a main or submain pretty well rather than a thukkadA

[Vocalist]

Rama Rama if sung well is the best choice to sing as main. Asaindaum mayil is good song no doubt but more suitable as filler or thukkada because of the tempo of the song. It does not have the required gait for a main song.

rAmA rAmA - agree; but this has been overdone by many multiple times. So something afresh would be welcome.

On asaindAdum, au contraire, me thinks that "asai pOdum Avinangal kandu andha adhisayathil silai pOla ninru" would lend itself to a gripping and superlative nereval with elaborate swarams fitting a main or submain pretty well rather than a thukkadA

I agree, and I think it makes it more challenging if singing Asaindadum as main - as one is battling against the common perception that the song is a less weighty item.

[sankark]

Violinist - Vittala Rangan

[sureshvv]

Neraval for vanaja nayana was a bit unsatisfactory due to padacheddham, split as vana jana etc.

[sankark]

Neraval for vanaja nayana was a bit unsatisfactory due to padacheddham, split as vana jana etc.

The only nereval was in the maun s'madhyamam. Did you mean the pallavi itself?

[devan]

She did not do any neraval in that song. She did neraval only in simendramadhyamam. Probably you are confused by listening to too many concerts.

[sureshvv]

Could be the swaraprasthara ending at the pallavi... this is not a commonly heard song (a definite +1 for that), so there is no chance of confusion.

Vanaja nayana = Lotus eyed
Vana jana = Forest people