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Vocal : maharAjapuram rAmachandran
Violin : nAgai muralidharan
Mrudangam : mannArgudi easwaran
Concert Duration : 2 hours and 40 minutes
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1.mahagaNapathim shivAthrayam (S) - nAttai - ??
swaras for 8 mins
2. uNDEDi rAmUdu (N) - harikAmbOdhi - T
neraval in "kshEma karudu tyAgarAja" for 4 mins
3. seshAchalanAyakam (R N S) - varAli - MD
8 mins alApanai , 5 mins violin return
neraval in aravinda pAtra nayanam gOvindam uraga sayanam for 5 mins
8 mins swaras
4. swAmi mayUra vaDivElA - nAgaswarAli - KI
5. thunai pUrindharUL (R S) - varamu - psivan
alapanai and swaras for 7 mins each
4 mins violin return
6A. manasu swadheenamai (R NS S T) - shankarAbharanam - T
10 mins alApanai , 5 mins violin return
neraval sketch for 2 mins and swaras for 8 mins
6B. tani for 9 mins
7A. viruththam "kandA guhA" - kedaragowlai +
ArumughamAi - mOhanam +
vaLLI devayAnaiudan - subhapantuvarAli
pArtharum seidhu pArAmukham - brindavana sArangA - yAzhpAnam veeramani ??
7B. chella kani kannA soLLadA - brindavanasAranga - yAzhpAnam veeramani
8A. viruththam "kallA pizhaiyum" - revathi - pattinathAr
8B. bho sambhO - revati - swami dayananda saraswati
mahArAjapuram ramachandran follows to a great extent his dad and granddad in many ways ,but in his own style with his baritoned voice he adds a very high emotive feel to lyrics and always give a classicism rich concert . I was late to join this concert at 06:15 , may be I missed the first varnam if there was one , he was winding up in charanam and presented a well rounded nAttai swaras. The swaras were very precise and the cuts were fast with very minimal violin return, incidentally this nAttai krithi was a new one to me.
The undedi rAmudu was presented very well with a nice round of neraval , I would have loved it if the neraval was little more longer with more patterns. The pick of the day was certainly the submain. maharajapuram's voice,muthuswami dikshitar krithi, and the nyasa patterns of this beautiful varAli was a triple sundae icecream and was superb in all counts, the alApanai was a powered one resembling entirely as a nadaswara bAni the gAndharam was exhibited at regular intervals and his voice had so much azhuttam that the krithi rendition had so much granduer .The neraval was superb and the swaras were one notch higher and just like his thAtha he kept up with his style of keeping the violin returns very minimal , the vivadhi touch in swaras beautified his presentation.
The filler was a fast swami mAyura vadivelA and was sung very well . Varamu certainly a haunting rAgA is known also as suddha hindolam , but I guess the rAga has so much of overlap of bhAgeshri and had so much of hindustani touch , may be it can be called hindolabhAgeshri
. THe varamu alApana was gripping and he had sung it in one go , the popular thunai purindaruL was sung very well and the swaras were well done.ramachandran is one singer who sings not one submain and one big main , instead he sings atleast 3 numbers like submain and usually a truncated main. The shankarabharanam alApanai was a mixed bag , the alApanai was good only in parts . Irrespective of the singer ,I do not have swadheenamana manasu to enjoy this bit lacklustre manasu swAdheenamai . ramachandran lost a bit of shruthi as he lost lot of breath in the main, to an extent the main was definitely a dip in the concert.Swaras were just ok.
The earliest goose bumps that I had was when santhanam sang this viruththam "kandA guhA", the start in kedaragowlai was little kAmbOdhish and shaky but in the mohanam and subhapantuvarALi it was excellent , the brindavana sArangA reached a lovely crescendo,the emotive quotient was maximum here . Yazhpanam veeramani and santhanam have collaborated together a lot when santhanam was the principal of jaffna music college to tune lot of krithis . This chella kani kannA is an outstanding number , the thamizh lines are very pleasing and apt and this number was the second best after varAli, it is one of the finest tukkadas ,hope other musicians beg and borrow and steal this number.ramachandran lost his steam a bit in revati and the bho sambho was slightly off in aesthetics nevertheless the audience loved it .
The violinist nAgai murali played with the right sense of proportion for almost all the numbers the tonal quality was rich with high shruthi suddham , only in varamu he was slightly off key. easwaran had lot of sowkhyam and there was plenty of anticipation in his play , but from main the sound of his mridangam was bit light and dropped in amplitude, possibly he was bit tired. The audience turnout was not that great for this concert. Maybe there was 50 or 60 in total, to an extent being in epicentre of mylapore I expected more.Overall a very good to excellent concert.
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My ballpen ran out of ink and I could not take the list on time , I came home and wrote the list with timings, may be I have made few mistakes in timings or r , n ,s or t.