Accompanied by Amrutha Murali - violin and karrakurichi mOhanrAm - mrudangam
concert time was from 1:45 to 3:45 pm dot time
1A viruththam "vakrathunta mahAkAya" - pantuvarAli -??
1B. Sami ninne nammina - pantuvarAli - shatkarla narasayyA
2A. rAga alApanai of bahudAri
2B. viruththam in brief "arutjyOthi ... sadAnanda deivam..." - bahudAri -???
2C. sadAnanda tANDavam(R N S) - bahudAri - achuthadAsar
neraval in "muttarum siddharum munivargaLum mOna mAdhavarum mAmUvargaLum"
3. bhooshAvathim(R) - bhooshAvati (vAcaspathi) - MD
4. paramapurusha jagadeeshwara(S) - vasantA - ST
5A. rAmA neeyeDa (R N S T)- kharaharapriya - T
neraval in " tana saukhyamu tAnErugaka "
11 minutes of alApanai, 5 minutes of violin return, 6 minutes of krithi rendition, 7 minutes of neraval and 12 minutes of swaras
5B. tani
6. dual rAga RTP "sAranganai ranganai ninai (in SAranga ) manamE dhinamE brindAvana (brindAvana sAranga)"
8 minutes of rAgam in both with brief violin return, 5 minutes of tAnam,4 minutes of pallavi with 6 minutes of swaras.
7A. viruththam "petra thAi " - sindhubhairavi + mOhanam - rAmalinga swamigal
7B. dArisanam kandArkku marujanmam illaiyE thillai - mOhanam - ???
Quick review ,stareted with just a good pantuvarAli varnam that is bit rare.The highlight to me was bahudAri , particularly neraval in sadAnanda tAndavam , I have not heard from any musicians, in total the entire bahudAri was outstanding.(Has any musician sung a neraval in sadananda tAndavam, please do post the musicians name)
The vAchaspathi (bhooshAvati)of MD was perhaps intended to connect the academy connoisseur, I found it not too interesting.That was offset with very good swaras in vasantA after he sang a rare krithi.The swaras and alApanai of kharaharapriya main was excellent, but the neraval was just good to very good .
Dual RTP had its pluses and minuses of a 2hr concert , Plus was perhaps a demonstration of vidwath but the minus to me was very personal he sang longer swarams for sArangA , but shortened in one of my favourite rAgas brindAvana sAranga, would have loved if it was reverse. both the tAnam and rAga alApanai though brief was very good to excellent.
Smt Amritha played very good , there was a slight slip where she had to retune during RTP, but suryaprakAsh continued well . Her rAga return of bahudAri ,sAranga and brindavAna sAranga was excellent in melody.The mridangist was just good. The last mOhanam was very good in diction and I was hearing it for the first time.
Overall a very good concert, there is a consistency of delivery in suryaprakAsh that impresses me a lot .But I had little higher expectation here in academy .
suryaprakAsh@MusicAcademy on Dec 24th,2007
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Jigyaasa
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Sri N.Vijay Siva sang one(plus swaras) yesterday at a Kartik Fine Arts' Tamil Isai festival at the very same line... Coincidentally, I just recorded an AIR broadcast of Smt. Nithyasree Mahadevan an hour ago where she sang swaras at that line...rajeshnat wrote:Quick review ,stareted with just a good pantuvarAli varnam that is bit rare.The highlight to me was bahudAri , particularly neraval in sadAnanda tAndavam , I have not heard from any musicians, in total the entire bahudAri was outstanding.(Has any musician sung a neraval in sadananda tAndavam, please do post the musicians name)
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arasi
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Rajesh,
Yes, it was a good concert and bahudAri sparkled (I have heard MMI sing it delightfully, of course). As you say, i wish he had elaborated more on brindAvana sAranga. When the time for exposition is limited, a single rAgA pallavi would be more effective, I think. I felt the same about his multi rAga pallavi in Cleveland concert last year.
It so happened that Amruta Murali was an accompanist in several of the concerts I attended and I was impressed by her versatality in playing to different styles of singing. I hope I can get to hear her sing too, since she has branched out into vocal music as well.
Yes, it was a good concert and bahudAri sparkled (I have heard MMI sing it delightfully, of course). As you say, i wish he had elaborated more on brindAvana sAranga. When the time for exposition is limited, a single rAgA pallavi would be more effective, I think. I felt the same about his multi rAga pallavi in Cleveland concert last year.
It so happened that Amruta Murali was an accompanist in several of the concerts I attended and I was impressed by her versatality in playing to different styles of singing. I hope I can get to hear her sing too, since she has branched out into vocal music as well.
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gobilalitha
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arasi madam, though what I state should come under a diffrerent thread, since the name of Amrita murali is cited I am happy to inform you that she was conferred the title of Isaichudar by kartik fine arts , anna nagar at a function gotup for felicitating Madurai GSMAni, MS ANANTARAMAN AND VETERAN OF ALL Thanjavur sankaraiyer, I WILL COME TO THAT IN A SEPERATE THREAD . gobilalitha