mallAdi Brothers@MusicaAcademy on Dec 20th,2007

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 21 Dec 2007, 15:17

Accompanied by varadarAjan - violin , mridangam - padri satish kumar and ghatam- giridhar udupa

1. deva deva kalayAmithe (R,S) - mAyamAlavagowlai - ST
2. Elaavataaram(R,S) - mukhaari - T
3. vina rAdA - dEvagAndhAri - T

4. paluvicharAmu(R) - shanmughapriyA - AnnamAcharyA
5A. akshayalinga vibhO (R N S T)- shankarAbharanam - MD
5B.tani

6 . RTP in dhanyAsi, pallavi line "neerajAkshi kAmakshi nikhila lOka janani"
rAgam for 8 minutes , 3 minutes of violin return , 6 minutes of tAnam , 7 minutes of pallavi and 7 minutes of swara rAgamAliga with violin return in 5 rAgAs
7. sOdhanaich chumaikkiv vEzai - kApi - pApanAsam sivan
8. paramapurusha - behAg?? - nArayana theerthar

I went to hear the mallAdi + palaghAt raghu combination, but the mridangist padri as a substitute was an excellent choice too. The first 3 no's were on the lines of SSI rendition. Particularly the MMGowlai and mukhAri swaras were excellent . I could notice a slight restraint in tara sthAyi when Sriram sang the mukhAri alApanai ,perhaps it was more prominent to me as I always feel these brothers consistently delivery always an excellent or outstanding mukhAri. devagAndhari in my opinion is little too tricky for 2 singers to sing together and exhibit excellence ,I just felt the brothers could have slowed down a bit there.The shanmughapriya alApanai was delivered very well and the krithi was not that great

ravi sang an excellent shankArabharanam alApanai , it was quite detailed , the krithi rendition was also very good . The neraval "badari vana moola nAyika sahitha" was very good , the swaras for the first half were mediocre , but the brothers picked up and delivered a very good second half, perhaps the first half swara notes were little too straight did not have much gamakam.

The dhanyAsi alApanai of RTP was very good and the tAnam was lively too .The pallavi rendition were excellent . The malladi brothers even though they sang all the swaras in a nice sequence , the swaras were just too short , that too considering 2 of them are singing alternatively they could have sung more. All the swara rAgamAliga had violin returns . The rAgas in swara rAgamAliga between the head and tail of dhanyAsi were nAttaikurinji, hameerkalyAni , darbAri kAnadA?? + ?? . The last 2 fillers were just just good , possibly the kApi flavour got lost a little because of sivan's thamizh sAhityam which was not malladi cup of tea (rather coffee). I would have preferred if they had possibly just sung the swara rAgamAliga much more , possibly they could have cut the alApanai of shanmughapriyA.

The concert exactly ended at 09:30, there was no pavamAna or mangalam , is this possibly because NT's behAg?? can be considered as mangalam .I appreciate Music Academy for their punctuality in start time (7pm ), should they be so punctual to close at dot 09:30 PM ,that is ridiculous to me...

VaradarAjan was not at his best , he excelled only from main onwards . The day's hero was certainly padri ,his energetic play especially with all the first juicy full tosses of mmgowlai and mukhAri lifted mallAdi's concert to great heights .Udupa gave a great support , but just felt during tani he was bit struggling to match Padri's strokefull innings.Overall a very good concert with a major crib being shortened version of swara rAgamAligA in RTP.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 21 Dec 2007, 15:20

The title should be mallAdi Brothers@Music Academy on Dec 20th,2007 not Dec 21st

mod note: Fixed. Rajesh.. The Subject of the first post of a thread is also the title of the thread, So if you edit the subject, the thread title will change.

mahesh_narayan · Post by **mahesh_narayan** » 21 Dec 2007, 15:52

Any idea why Raghu Sir didn't perform?

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 21 Dec 2007, 16:04

raghu sir apparently had some problem in his leg and is presently resting. Hence he is not performing any concert. He is only presiding the conference at MA.

venkatr · Post by **venkatr** » 21 Dec 2007, 22:51

As Rajesh has written, this was a very good concert by the brothers. The third raga in the pallavi swara ragamalika was kanada - stood out through the beautiful mini alapana of Sriram at the end a la Nedunuri style with a distinct nasal tone. The last one which Ravi sang was dwijavanti - very brief before switching back to dhanyasi.

The key disappointment was not seeing Raghu Sir performing . Varadarjan was good in patches. The Thani was good especially Satish Kumar.

I would have loved to hear more alapana in Mukhari (their Guru's Forte) coming in from the brothers. .

gsn · Post by **gsn** » 21 Dec 2007, 23:16

Oh, what a pity. I was waiting to see the review of Raghu sir's thani..So I suppose he did not accompany Ravikiran either. Any idea if Anand was the only mridangist that day?

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 21 Dec 2007, 23:22

If my guess is right, A Anand is the grandson of Palghat sri Raghu, and the son of Violinst, Kallidaikurichi Sri Ananthakrishnan, belonging to the kallidaikurichi dikshitar disciples family. could somebody confirm

gsn · Post by **gsn** » 22 Dec 2007, 01:54

Yes, he is the grandson of Raghu sir.

venkatakrishnan · Post by **venkatakrishnan** » 22 Dec 2007, 20:53

In my opinion the malladis were not at their best.there were phrases repeated in dhanyasi alapana.i beleive there were some voice problems!!.pallavi and shanmugapriya were good but taanam was not up to the mark.violin was also upto his best.

venkatakrishnan · Post by **venkatakrishnan** » 22 Dec 2007, 20:53

mukahri also saw repeated phrase in alapana

rasaali · Post by **rasaali** » 22 Dec 2007, 22:26

Rajeshnat,

Thanks for the nice review.

Please dont mind a small correction. i believe Sri Satish Kumar's family name is Patri, not Padri. Of course Patri by any other name would still play as well! He is a very outstanding vidwan.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 22 Dec 2007, 22:30

venkatakrishnan: I am curious what you mean by 'repeat phrases' here. I thought all artists repeat the phrases during an alapana. ( or have to repeat it since there are limited phrases for many ragas ). Do you mean it was excessive repetition here or they repeated in such a fashion it was obvious?