Parur Violin Quartet @ Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai (16 Mar 20

ram · Post by **ram** » 16 Mar 2007, 22:55

Venue: Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall, TTK Road, Chennai

Date: 16 Mar 2007

Organizer: Narada Gana Sabha (Golden Jubilee Year)

Violin: Parur Sri M.S. Anantaraman, Sri M.A. Krishnaswami, Sri M.A. Sundaresan & Sri M.S. Anantakrishnan

Mrudangam: Sri Srimushnam Raja Rao

Ghatam: Sri Madippakkam Murali

List of songs:

1) inta chAlamu (varnam) - bEgaDa - Adi - vINai kuppaiyer (O)

2) praNamAmyaham srI - gowLa - Adi - mysore vAsudEvAchAr (AS)

3) sAraguNa pAlimpa - kEdAragowLa - Adi - rAmanAtapuram srInivAsa iyengAr (A)

4) Ananda naTamADuvAr - pUrvikalyANi - rUpakam - nIlakanTa sivan (AS)

5) pakkala nilabaDi- kharaharapriyA - misra chApu - thyAgarAja (A)

6) endukku peddala - shankarAbharaNam - Adi - thyAgarAja (AtNST)

7) anbirundAl pOdum ? - sindhubhairavi - Adi - chidambaram swarna venkatEsa dIkshitar (A)

8 ) tAm tAm tAm udanitOm (tillAnA) - khamAs - Adi - paTTaNam subramaNya iyer

9) nI nAma rUpa mulaku (mangaLam) - sowrAshTram - Adi - thyAgarAja

(Key: O=raga outline, A=raga alapana, N=neraval, S=kalpana swaram, T=taniavartanam, t=tanam)

Three generation of violin artists came together and presented a melodious concert today at the Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall. Veteran violin vidwan, octogenarian, Sri M.S. Anantaraman, his sons - Sri M.A. Krishnaswami and Sri M.A. Sundaresan and his grandson Sri M.S. Anantakrishnan delighted the audience with their classy violin recital. The concert started with Sri M.A. Anataraman playing a short outline of the raga bEgaDa. His fingers were so nimble and he made it all look so easy even at this age of his. The bEgaDa varnam was then played by all four of them to some great accompaniment provided by Sri Raja Rao and Sri Murali. After "praNamAmyaham srI" came a series of heavy classical compositions that were simply delightful to hear. Alapanas for the first three songs were done predominantly by Sri M.S. Anantaraman. Sri M.A. Krishnaswami played the pUrvikalyANi alapana, Sri M.S. Anantakrishnan played the kharaharapriya alapana and Sri M.A. Sundaresan played the shankarAbharaNam alapana. The kharaharapriya alapana had some very good prayogas. Sri M.A. Krishnaswami and Sri M.A. Sundaresan's mastery showed in the way they played effortlessly like their father. Before the shankarAbharaNam kriti began, the quartet played a good tAnam.

Sri Raja Rao played with a lot of mastery for all the songs. The taniavartanam he played with Sri Madippakkam Murali comprised of a chatusra naDai, a tisra naDai and an elaborate round of kuraippus.

Source: http://ramsabode.wordpress.com/2007/03/ ... i16032007/

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 17 Mar 2007, 00:29

If the sindhubhairavi song is anbirundAlE pOdum ANDavanE inda akhila uyirgaLaiyum the it is by Shuddhananda Bharati.

ram · Post by **ram** » 17 Mar 2007, 07:28

Lji, I am not sure what the exact Pallavi line is because the song was not sung. Sri M.S. Anantaraman (MSA) announced the first two words just before the song started and I couldn't hear that clearly. He also said that it is a composition of Sri Swarna Venkatesha Dikshitar and that he had been asked to set the song's tune by Sri Swarna Venkatesha Dikshitar himself.

MSA sang the charanam lines but I do not recall any words from that. I should have taken notes

mishram · Post by **mishram** » 17 Mar 2007, 20:04

Ram, how was Anantakrishnan's playing? It would be nice to hear your feedback on his playing. Is he MAK or MAS's kid? I hear GJR's daughter also plays very well. What a great honor for these young kids to play with their respective grand fathers - the legends!