Kalpakam Swaminathan, Abhayamaba Vibakti Kritis, Nada Inbam

[rbharath]

Smt. Kalpakam Swaminathan - vINai
Smt. Jayalakshmi Sekhar - vINai support
Smt. Vasumathi Desikan & Smt. Sivasri - vocal
Sri V Srinivasan - mrudangam

Programme of abhayAmbA vibakti kritis
Nada Inbam, Raga Sudha Hall
14 Nov 2008. 6 pm

The Programme started with Sri Pappu Venugopala Rao giving a brief introduction about the kritis.

Sri VV Sundaram and Sri VV Chellappa spoke on the occasion.

The programme had the following kritis presented.

mahA gaNapatim vandE - tODi - rUpakam
subrahmaNyEna - suddha danyAsi - Adi
sadAshrayE abhayAmbhikE - cAmaram - rUpakam
abhayaAbA jagadambA - kalyANi - Adi
Aryam abhayAmbAm - bhairavi - triputa
girijayA ajayA - sankarabharanam - Adi
abhayAmbikAyai - yadukulakambhoji - rupakam
abhayAmbikAyAh - kedaragaula - jhampa
ambikAyAh abhayAmbikAyAh - kedaram - adi
abhayAmbAyAm - sahana - triputa
dAkshAyani abhayAmbikE - todi - rupakam
srI abhayAmbA - srI rAgam.

There were no manOdarmam parts except for a few short sketches and a tAnam in bhairavi. The kritis were rendered beautifully and it was a bliss to sit thro' the programme.

Each kriti was rendered with a grandeur and with each phrase falling in place, it was a eternal experience and one felt like one had visited the shrine of the goddess at mAyuram.

A great programme

bharath

[isai_rasigan]

While I enjoyed Mami’s renderings of the Abhayamba Vibakti Krithis, I felt that Jayalakshmi Sekhar’s Vina accompaniment was rather intrusive.

V Srinivasan was very good on the mridangam. The softness of his strokes would have made even Dr S Balachander happy.

[rnswamy]

I am surprised "isai-rasigan" found Jayalakshmi's playing "intrusive"! On the contrary, Jayalakshmi provided very pleasing support. It was only because she was capable of that, that Ms Swaminathan had included her in the team.