Abilash Giriprasad@Madhuradhwani On Oct 18th,2025
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Vocal : Abilash Giriprasad (Disciple of AS Murali) and his grand paramaguru is Semmangudi connecting through his Paramaguru PSN
Violin : R Raghul (he wrote once with the id violinlover), disciple of perhaps the violinist M Chandrasekaran who must have played with maximum spread of vocalist
Mrudangam : J Vaidyanathan
Ghatam : Chandrasekara Sharma (disciple of his father Gurumoorthy and his grandfather HariHaraSharma, all connected with ghatam)
Concert Type : Nirvana - Non Ticketed concert
Day : Saturday
Duration - 2 hours and 20 mins
Sabha/Hall : Madhuradhwani, Arkays Convention Hall, Luz
01A .Hayagreevar Slokham - Gnana nanda mayam devam
01B. GajavadanA karunA (R,S)- shree ranjani - PSivan
brief alapana and 4 mins swaram
02. PAlaya Madhava manisham (RS) - Asaveri - ST
Brief alapana sketch with no violin return
03.kadaikaNN vaithennai aalammA (R) - BeGaDa - Ramaswamy Sivan
8 mins alapana and 5 mins violin return
04A. 2 mins alapana of varALi
04B. slokham - vENkatAsho vasudevO - varAli - ?help needed to identify the authorship??
04C. seshAchala nAyakam (R N S) - varAli - MD
3 mins neraval Aravinda patra nayanam
5 mins swaras
05. darisanam kandArkku(RS) - mohanam - GKB
06A. RakshabettarE (R S T) - bhairavi - T
15 mins alapana and 7 mins violin return
swaras for 13 mins
06B. tani for 13 mins
07A.ugabhoogA - HAdhiDharE yEnnudhayana - behag - PD
07B. nAnyakE badavanu - behag - PD
08. Nijagada sa Yadunandane- sindhubhairavi - Jayadeva Ashtapadi
09. Thillana -tOM tOM udhana - khamas - Patnam
10. praklAdi + swasti prati + kalita varada - Mangalam
Abilash Giriprasad@Madhuradhwani On Oct 18th,2025
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Re: Abilash Giriprasad@Madhuradhwani On Oct 18th,2025
I have personally benefited with forums say from the titanic (sangeetham.com which was unplugged without notice) and this rasikas (which is so alive and living) . Over a period i could spot the metamorphosis of artists like abilash , abhishek, Amrutha, Amritha etal (all those are artists beginning A)from young to super mature artistry
Over a period of time i have made up my life that the greatest vidwans and vidushis for extraordinary Carnaticness is what i call as Carnatic vocal trinity . They are the mmi-ssi-gnb. That is the remote past .The immediate past is say three musicians whom i adore say Suryaprakash-Abhishek-Sanjay. This musician Abilash bringing in a rich amalgamation of creativity that is anchored with extraordinary remote and immediate past , he generally presented every bit with what i call weighty sangathis and sancharas only concert .
He started with his trademark hayagreevar slokham and sang a beautiful sree ranjani alapana and launched into gajavadana karuna with great swaras. I have personally heard this lovely composition for the first time only through the great vidwan DK Jayaraman, i was wondering did he start that keeping J Vaidyanathan(DKJ son) in mind . Swaras are organic with a lovely kalapramanam tightness . What a joy to hear the next asaveri . voice and krithi rendition was weighty i wish he went to swaras but hey he teased only with krithi but definitely well done
Two weighty ragams and krithis followed . BEgada is a tricky raga and following with varAli is quite heavy for many. I liked both especially the rendition of weighty krithi of seshachala nayakam and a brief slokham was very insightful varali for me. Mohanam had a lovely outline alapana and GKB krithi of mohanam was done well
A well crafted big krithi and raga that too Bhairavi is always a great choice as it is favourite big 6 raga for me. ALapana was well sung , he was very methodical with lot of nadaswara pidi and he followed possibly rakshabettare assuming he was keeping DKJ/DKP in mind . HE did not sag in bhairavi and he sang very well
Ugabhooga is usually pushed behind viruththam and slokham . HE sang exceptionally well the ugabhooga and followed very well with a nice behag . ashtapadi in sindhubhairavi was well done and the last kamas was quite a testament as though he was a vidwan who sang in the era of MMI-SSI-GNB to me
The violinist Raghul has the same fingering technique like his guru M Chandrasekaran. QUite a lot of fingering during alapana with lot of brighas makes me wonder how a nadaswara vidwan will play violin. Two brilliant percussionist indeed
lifted the concert . J Vaidyanathan is a super senior vidwan , he just played with the attitude of say vellore ramabadran no showing off that i am senior artist and creating way too much of theermanams . JV gave a lot of toppi ,in lot of places he created lot of sarvalaghu oomph
Chandrasekara Sharma is maturing with lot of musical rhythmic weight ,during songs he kind of adopted lot of his school star ghatam Karthik like approach sudden one finger tapping , in course of songs he did well and during tani he was bit like V Suresh not easily surrendering to mrudangam artist.
Abilash made few mistakes possibly not keeping the janaranjakam into consideration . Abilash possibly following the heaviness of say begada and varali in succession was bit away from janaranjakam, he could have taken one of them out and possibly also sung a longer course of asaveri swaras . Also the mohanam drop of darisanam kandarkku appeared bit more in the land of more unfamiliar krithi . Instead of darisanam kandarkku he could have given that to more of bhairavi main . Standalone krithi without nerval and swaras are not my cup of tea.
The spread of assorted compositions like sanjay, sudden ideation during the course of song like abhishek and organic takeoff and landing in swaras and neravals with longer cycles going with the flow of that rhythmic taps of that present intensity like suryaprakash . Abilash did overall very well in the concert with carnatic intensity
Overall an excellent concert for 2 hours and 20 mins
Over a period of time i have made up my life that the greatest vidwans and vidushis for extraordinary Carnaticness is what i call as Carnatic vocal trinity . They are the mmi-ssi-gnb. That is the remote past .The immediate past is say three musicians whom i adore say Suryaprakash-Abhishek-Sanjay. This musician Abilash bringing in a rich amalgamation of creativity that is anchored with extraordinary remote and immediate past , he generally presented every bit with what i call weighty sangathis and sancharas only concert .
He started with his trademark hayagreevar slokham and sang a beautiful sree ranjani alapana and launched into gajavadana karuna with great swaras. I have personally heard this lovely composition for the first time only through the great vidwan DK Jayaraman, i was wondering did he start that keeping J Vaidyanathan(DKJ son) in mind . Swaras are organic with a lovely kalapramanam tightness . What a joy to hear the next asaveri . voice and krithi rendition was weighty i wish he went to swaras but hey he teased only with krithi but definitely well done
Two weighty ragams and krithis followed . BEgada is a tricky raga and following with varAli is quite heavy for many. I liked both especially the rendition of weighty krithi of seshachala nayakam and a brief slokham was very insightful varali for me. Mohanam had a lovely outline alapana and GKB krithi of mohanam was done well
A well crafted big krithi and raga that too Bhairavi is always a great choice as it is favourite big 6 raga for me. ALapana was well sung , he was very methodical with lot of nadaswara pidi and he followed possibly rakshabettare assuming he was keeping DKJ/DKP in mind . HE did not sag in bhairavi and he sang very well
Ugabhooga is usually pushed behind viruththam and slokham . HE sang exceptionally well the ugabhooga and followed very well with a nice behag . ashtapadi in sindhubhairavi was well done and the last kamas was quite a testament as though he was a vidwan who sang in the era of MMI-SSI-GNB to me
The violinist Raghul has the same fingering technique like his guru M Chandrasekaran. QUite a lot of fingering during alapana with lot of brighas makes me wonder how a nadaswara vidwan will play violin. Two brilliant percussionist indeed
lifted the concert . J Vaidyanathan is a super senior vidwan , he just played with the attitude of say vellore ramabadran no showing off that i am senior artist and creating way too much of theermanams . JV gave a lot of toppi ,in lot of places he created lot of sarvalaghu oomph
Chandrasekara Sharma is maturing with lot of musical rhythmic weight ,during songs he kind of adopted lot of his school star ghatam Karthik like approach sudden one finger tapping , in course of songs he did well and during tani he was bit like V Suresh not easily surrendering to mrudangam artist.
Abilash made few mistakes possibly not keeping the janaranjakam into consideration . Abilash possibly following the heaviness of say begada and varali in succession was bit away from janaranjakam, he could have taken one of them out and possibly also sung a longer course of asaveri swaras . Also the mohanam drop of darisanam kandarkku appeared bit more in the land of more unfamiliar krithi . Instead of darisanam kandarkku he could have given that to more of bhairavi main . Standalone krithi without nerval and swaras are not my cup of tea.
The spread of assorted compositions like sanjay, sudden ideation during the course of song like abhishek and organic takeoff and landing in swaras and neravals with longer cycles going with the flow of that rhythmic taps of that present intensity like suryaprakash . Abilash did overall very well in the concert with carnatic intensity
Overall an excellent concert for 2 hours and 20 mins
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Re: Abilash Giriprasad@Madhuradhwani On Oct 18th,2025
Abilash Giriprasad@Madhuradhwani On Oct 18th,2025
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Vocal : Abilash Giriprasad (Disciple of AS Murali) and his grand paramaguru is Semmangudi connecting through his Paramaguru PSN
Violin : R Raghul (he wrote once with the id violinlover), disciple of perhaps the violinist M Chandrasekaran who must have played with maximum spread of vocalist
Mrudangam : J Vaidyanathan
Ghatam : Chandrasekara Sharma (disciple of his father Gurumoorthy and his grandfather HariHaraSharma, all connected with ghatam)
Concert Type : Nirvana - Non Ticketed concert
Day : Saturday
Duration - 2 hours and 20 mins
Sabha/Hall : Madhuradhwani, Arkays Convention Hall, Luz
GLICSPAWES 2025 "Goto LIve Concert Show PAtronage Without Excuses Series" concert #10 of xy(hopefully 30 is goal) is done.
www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=385051#p385051
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Vocal : Abilash Giriprasad (Disciple of AS Murali) and his grand paramaguru is Semmangudi connecting through his Paramaguru PSN
Violin : R Raghul (he wrote once with the id violinlover), disciple of perhaps the violinist M Chandrasekaran who must have played with maximum spread of vocalist
Mrudangam : J Vaidyanathan
Ghatam : Chandrasekara Sharma (disciple of his father Gurumoorthy and his grandfather HariHaraSharma, all connected with ghatam)
Concert Type : Nirvana - Non Ticketed concert
Day : Saturday
Duration - 2 hours and 20 mins
Sabha/Hall : Madhuradhwani, Arkays Convention Hall, Luz
GLICSPAWES 2025 "Goto LIve Concert Show PAtronage Without Excuses Series" concert #10 of xy(hopefully 30 is goal) is done.
www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=385051#p385051