Sanjay Subramanyam @ Malleshwaram Venugopalaswamy Temple

[srikant1987]

Sanjay Subramanyam - Vocal
MR Gopinath - Fiddle
Patri Sathish Kumar - Mridangam
G Guruprasanna - Khanjira

Partial list (full list below in braindrain's post)

ini oru kaNam - shrI ranjani - rUpakacApu - PS (R?)
paridAnamiccitE - bilahari - khanDacApu - PSI (RNS)
gAngEya vasana - hAmirkalyANi - Adi - ST (R)
shrI rAjagOpAla - sAvEri - Adi - MD (R - S: rAgamAlika swaras in koraippu - sahAna, varALi, yadukulakAmbhOji, dhanyAsi, bahudAri, haMsAnandi, etc.)
tani

It was a good concert. The bilahari, hAmirkalyANi and especially sAvEri krtis were rendered with discipline (compared to the Sanjay I've seen so far). Sanjay's bilahari AlApanai (except for some maaagari phrases) was very good. Bilahari swarams were very nice. MRG's replies were matching well too. Sanjay's hAmirkalyANi AlApanai was very good. Sanjay's sAvEri AlApanai began well, though he seemed to be searching for phrases. He was drawing out some good ones first. Interestingly, he was using mostly short phrases in the AlApanai, like MMI, and at times "sharp" accompaniment seemed lacking. MRG's solo AlApanai of sAvEri mostly just went up and down the scale with some srgm-pdns analogous phrase technique +. The swarams were good. I don't like rAgamAlika swarams for krtis, and the long chain (which it had many ragas I like) was just ticking the clock for me.

The tani was very good. It began very serenely and went up to Patri's usual energy level as it progressed. The khanjira accomapanist took time, but soon matched Patri superbly in his replies.

I left during the post-tani speech, as it was getting late. I saw Vittal Rangan and Vidwan Balakrishna Doresamy (I think) in the audience.

+ The sggm-mnns (rItigauLai) or ggrs-nndp-ggrs (darbAr) -- stretched by some people to every rAgam in the world, like with a srgsr-pdnpd for sAvEri and so on.

[mahavishnu]

Was the ST hamIr kalyAni piece gAngEya vasanadhara?

[arasi]

Mahavishnu,
My guess too.

Srikant,
Did you arrive late and leave early? I ask because the list is not a substantial Sanjay's list. I assume he started with a varNam, and perhaps there was another song before the Sriranjani one. The speech by the priest at this temple is not long at all, in case you thought it was going to be! Though their sound system isn't that good, it's a good hall and it has a nice ambiance, with Venu Goplaswamy in festive birthday vestments too, I imagine.

Sappri, Were you there? Please complete the song list!

[gardabha_gana]

Anybody has a recording? I couldn't go in the backyard where I grew up

[srikant1987]

Did you arrive late and leave early?

Yes.

The speech by the priest at this temple is not long at all, in case you thought it was going to be!

No that wasn't my fear. Indeed, I'd stayed for some part of the speech too, and by the time I'd retrieved my sandals, the concert'd reopened. But it was about nine, and the commute could take 1 1/2 hours ...

Unfortunately my pen's refill ran out, and I couldn't note down. If gAngEya vasana has a padmanAbha in the pallavi, possibly. I found the composition rather boring, especially the caraNam. Wish he'd taken up puraharanandana or venkaTashailavihAra ... and a more elaborate bilahari krti. It would've avoided those rAgamAlika swarams ...

[Ramam]

Kambhoji Varnam
Paraloka saadhaname ,Poorvikalyani Tygaraja
were before Sriranjini
The hamirkalyani was gangeya. The longish caranam was repeated twice. I think the reason was artist subjective. He happen to forget/not sure of some phrases in the first go, I felt.
For short concerts not in an ambiance of a chowdaiah or gayana samaja it was not good to have the garland of ragas.
I also felt that Parithanamichite was falling short of the beautiful alaapana that was rendered. May it was to the taste of a larger section of janaranjaneeya audience.
the garland list also had sudha dhayasi, bahudaari, amritavarshini,..,suruti,..
The sound system was OK.Gopinath was sedate.

[braindrain]

Here is the complete list

01 sarasijanAbha ( varNam) - kAmbOji - Swathi Thirunal

02 paralOka sAdhanamE - pUrvi kalyANi - Thyagaraja ( S )

03 ini oru kaNam - srI ranjini - Papanasam Sivan ( A )

04 paridAnamichitE - bilahari - Patnam Subramanya Iyer ( A,N,S )

neraval & Swara @ ' rokkamichutakunE mukkaNTi chelikAnu'

05 gAngEya vasana dhara - hamIr kalyANi - Swathi Thirunal ( A )

06 srI rAjagOpAlam - sAvEri - Dikshitar ( A,S, T )

ragamalika swaras in sAvEri, sahAna, varALi, yadukula kAmbOji, dhanyAsi, kharaharapriya, SankarAbharaNam, hamsAnandi, sudha dhanyAsi, amrutavarshiNi , bahudhAri, shivaranjini, surutti.
06 b tani Avartanam

07 dAsara nindisa bEDa - rAgEshri - Purandara Dasa

08 viruttam ( poothavaLE, bhuvanam padhinAnkaiyum ) - darbAri kAnaDa *edited*

shlOkam ( jAnAdi ) - mAND

rAmanai bhajitAl - mAND - Papanasam Sivan

ArumO Aval - mAND - Kannan Iyengar

09 kaLilO harismarana - kApi - Harikeshanallur Muthaiah bhagavathar ( O )

10 mangaLam - saurAshtram - Thyagaraja

[srikant1987]

Thank you, braindrain! The "blank" is filled by bahudari, which both Ramam and I have mentioned.

[bilahari]

Doesn't paridAnamiccitE always fizz after the alapanai?!

[kunthalavarali]

braindrain,
(8) viruttam: did you mean :poothavaLE, bhuvanam padhinAnkaiyum" Abirami Andadhi 13?
ArumO Aval - mAND - Kannan Iyengar

[braindrain]

@kuntalavarali :Thanks, that must be the one... Edited , the earlier post..
@ srikanth : That must be bahudhari, I missed. Thanks

[srikant1987]

braindrain,

One more thing! I'd really like to know the khanjari vidwan's name!

He looked somewhat like Trichy Murali (the ghatam vidwan).

[gardabha_gana]

braindrain,

One more thing! I'd really like to know the khanjari vidwan's name!

He looked somewhat like Trichy Murali (the ghatam vidwan).

Must be Guruprasanna

[arasi]

Thank you, Jayan and kuntalavarali, for the complete list.

Bilahari,
Agreed! Not my big favorite either, this song. Of course, you know more songs in it than I do, knowing your penchant for the rAgam, namesake

Srikant,
Janaranjakam aside, no RTP to sing rAgamAlikai svarams--the viruttam was a one-rAgam one. So, the main had the malikA for KrishnA's birthday, I guess!

[srikant1987]

Must be Guruprasanna

Confirmed with Google-images.

[srikant1987]

braindrain,

It must be you Arasi addresses as Jayan in #14? Didn't know you were the KP Jayan!

[shankar17]

Does anyone have the recording of this beautiful concert to share ?
Appreciate your response