bharath kumar@Asthika samAjam on Oct 26th,2009

[rajeshnat]

bharath kumar@Asthika samAjam on Oct 26th,2009
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Bharath kumar was accompanied by L.Ramakrishnan (sishya of A.kanyakumari)- violin and kallidakurichi sivakumar - mrudangam

1. karunimpA 'varnam' - sahAnA - thiruvottiyur ThyagayyA
2. paramEshwara jagadEEshwara (S) - nAttai - MD
5 mins of swaras

3. karpagAmbikE kadaikaNN(R,S) - bilahari - P.Sivan
8 mins alApanai, 4 mins violin and 2 mins swaras
4. nEE dayachE rAmA - yadhukulakAmbOdhi - T

5. karuna jUdavammA (R,N) - varAli -SS
8 mins alApanai , 6 mins violin return ,
neraval for 6 mins in "varadAngu chanu sadA vachiNtu???"
6. rAgA saSivadana - takkA - T

7A. upachAramUlanU (R N S T) - bhairavi - T
14 mins alApanai , 9 mins violin return
8 mins neraval in "kapaTa nAtaka suTra dhAyaNi"
6 mins swaras
7B. tani for 9 mins

fake 8. speech break by narasimhan
real 8. vaNNa mADAngaL suzh - rAgamAliga (mohanam + hamsAnandi?? + shuruTTi) - periyazhwar pAsuram

9. nAdhru teem tiranA ?? "endha velaiyum kanda veliyum??" - sindhubhairavi - OVK???
10. nee nAma + slokham 'shree vaikunta'- madhyamAvathi

This is my first live concert experience of bharath kumar.The concert was advertised where in K .Gayathri had to sing, but since she was not feeling well the slot went to bharath(son of smt suguna varadAchari).I was late to join half way of nAttai and there was some good volley of swaras from both violinist and vocalist.

bilahari was quite detailed , though the alApanai did not flow too freely, the krithi and swaras were just ok to good . THe next YK kAMbOdhi just bought a lot of emotive weight and bharath sang very well. The submain was a tough uphill varAli and there was a very clean alApanai and krithi , the neraval could have had more of gAndhara piDi of a typical varAli. Takka filler was quite good.

The main was a well tested and quite internalized by many musicians , the alApana piDi was in and out nAdaswara piDi and was well done with very good madhyamakAla touch. The krithi usually takes off like a concorde, but bharath's voice just did not open out that much, but however from anupallavi onwards there was quite a demonstration of vidwat and exuberance .Neraval had its pluses , what a wonderful line this bhairavi just oozes out with so much musical excellence in this neraval line .The swaras were quite good , he could have gone little more mElkAlam too.

In the tukkadas the pasuram was simply excellent ,I am slowly liking more when tukkadas have more musical and lyrical quotient (arasi should be pleased) and pasuram is perfect for me,in particular this pasuram took me on a tour to few temples like tirukkadaiyur etc...The last thillana was just good.

Accompanist role was uplifting the concert .The strokes of palakkad raghu azhuttam was always there with kallidakurichi with a nice use of thoppi.I did not pay much attention to tani . The violinist is slowly and steadily raising over the years ,support had kashmiri (nope kanyakumari) azhuttam and his returns were apt and nice.

Few shortcomings of bharath:
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1. Bharath is perhaps a musician who must have learnt maximum from his mother smt sugunA varadachari and I am assuming with sanjay it is more of branding . To an extent his music when centered like suguna varadachari say in a pasuram or so appears well rounded . But during neraval and swaras there is a bit of sanjayism it is slight not as much as say sandeep narayan, and few sangathis in the reach of packing more power he loses a bit of steam.

2. Swaras can be much more than what was exhibited today, also his diction can be more clean, found it at few places not very clean and coherant.

Nevertheless a nice first impression. I am sure with smt suguna v's training and guidance he will reach a zone of excellence quite sooner than later.OVerall this 2 hours and 15 minutes concert can be tagged as good to very good concert.

[prashant]

#9 is a composition of Vidvan Tanjavur S. Kalyanaraman.

[cienu]

The violinist is slowly and steadily raising over the years - had kashmiri (nope kanyakumari) azhuttam and his returns were apt and nice.

That was a wonderful rajeshnat special

[Lakshman]

Prashant: I have the following song attributed to K.Somu/N.Viramani Iyer. Is the song by SK different?

enda vELaiyum. rAgA: brndAvanasArangA. rUpaka tALA.

P: enda vELaiyum kanda vELai cintanai sheidiDu manamE
enda nALum sondamAga namai vandu kAppAn vElavanE
A: sundara tamizhinil tudittu ninrAl anda sendirkka vElum nam mun varum
kanda kOTTattil amarndiDum kumaran kuLir shentamizh tiruppugazh iruppuDai amaran
C: shen tAmarai kaNNanin marugan antAmarai mEl tavazh urugan
mandara puSpamaNi mArbazhagan toNDAr kuvaLai aliyanaittuzhagan

[rajeshnat]

Lji
Prashant is 100 % right. This was only composed by Tjr S KalyanaRaman. It is certainly different than that masterpiece of jaffna veeramani iyer, Googled to find out thillANa lyrics of this SKR thillAna. The lines are enda vELayum kanda vELayE (instead of vELaiyum)

Sindhu Bhairavi thillana. Composer Tanjavur S Kalyanaraman

Pallavi
nAdrutadIm DIranA tanadirana

Anupallavi
nAdirudirutAni tomtirudirutAni takuntarikitataka
tadirudirutAni takitatom tadingiNatom
tomtirutirutAni takitatom taNatom natom
dItlAm tadikitatom dItlAm tadikitatom dItlAm tadikitatom

(last line can also be rendered the second time as)
takitadItlAm takatakitadItlAm takadikutakitadItlAm

Charanam

enda vELayum kanda vELayE
uvandu urugi paNindu tozhuginrEn
vandenai ALa samayamidE unai
ninaindu ninaindu paravasamigavAgude

[rbharath]

i had gone to this concert and stayed till the main bhairavi.

It was a good concert. He did a very good job at his task. The kriti renditions were good and apt. The choice of kriti was nice too. The elaborations of the ragams were suited for the mood of the kritis that came up later. The neraval svaram parts were all done well also. The accompanists were very good and did a good job in raising the concert to a more enjoyable state.