Review of Manasa Nayana's vocal concert at Music club IITM

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 03 Mar 2006, 00:58

Music Club IIT Madras

Purandaradasa Krithis concert.

Vocal - ManasaNayana
Violin - Shertalai sivakumar
Mridangam - Arjun Ganesh

22nd Feb 2006

01 - saranu siDHi vinAyakA - Arabbhi - rUpakam
02 - kodu bega divyamathi - vasanthA - Adi (R,N,S)
03 - sakala grahabAla - atAnA - kandachApu
04 - mAnava janma dodadhu - pUrvikalyAni - misrachApu (R)
05 - kathA sravan mAdhO - rIthigoWlai - Adi - (R, short sketch)
06 - bidanina pAda - mOhanam - Adi
07 - odibavaYa vikunta - bHairavi - Adi - (R,N,S)
08 - Thani
09 - mandhagamanE - khamAs - Adi
10 - jagadhOdhAranA - kApi - Adi
11 - nandha thanaya - yamunA kalyAni - Adi
12 - smarisuva janakeLa - surati - Adi

The concert was well planned and showed the power that is stored in some of the dasar padagalu. It was a very commendable effort in bringing out some weightly compositions of the composer.

The vocalist also took time to give a general meaning of each of the kritis he presented, thus taking along even audience who were lost because of the absence of well known kritis.

The Arabhi kriti was nice. The vasantA alapanai was presented well and the kriti with neraval and svarams at "pathitha pAvanEni gathiyendhu nambithE" was rendered with a lot of nice phrases put in.

The popular aTANA kriti in a rather slow pace led to a very leisurely elaboration of pUrvikalyANi. It was quite elaborate and one felt he could have done a better job if only he was a bit faster. The feeling however was completely prooven wrong when the kriti was rendered. Such a moving kriti with a lot of bhavam that a faster alapanai would have just reduced the impact.

The short rItigauLa alapanai and a nice rendition of the kriti followed by a good mohanam led to the main bhairavi alapanai. Though a bit shaky at the foundations, the alapanai was developed quite nicely. The kriti was rendered with neraval and svarams at "mangalAthmaja mOhana kayarAnga". The tukkadas were well rendered also.

Sherthalai Sivakumar was his usual self. He was good.

Arjun Ganesh was just playing the kritis on the mrudangam. His accompaniment was very good and he did follow the artist like his shadow. He showed good anticipation and was very good in the tani also.

bharath

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 03 Mar 2006, 01:39

PD's kodu bEga is sung in many different rAgAs: saraswatI, vasanthA, and I am sure MLV sings it in AraBI...
Ravi

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 03 Mar 2006, 04:08

The vocalist appears to have rendered the kRtis in the sae rAgas that Sri.R.K.Srikantan sings them in. Is she his diciple or disciple`1s disciple?

Bharath thanks. Bu you need to pay attention to the lyrics.
SaraNu siddhi vinAyaka
koDu bEga divyamati
sakala grahabala
mAnava janma doDDadu
kathASravaNa mADO
biDe ninna pAda
ODi bArayya vaikuNThapati
mandagamane
jagadOddhArana
nandatanaya
smarisuva janakella

The two lines should be

patitapAvane nI gatiyendu nambide .

mangaLAtmaka mOhanakAya ranga.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 03 Mar 2006, 15:02

Dr Shrikanth, thanks for correcting the lyrics. I do not know kannada and hence apologise for the errors.

The Vocalist is from Bangalore. He is an alumnus of IITM and a disciple of Sri. R K Srikantan.