Ranjani Gayathir for BGS, 08/Dec/2012

[sankark]

Ranjani Gayathri - Vocal
BU Ganeshprasad - Violin
Delhi Sairam - Mridangam
KV Gopalakrishnan - Khanjira

sAmi daya - kEdaragowlai - Adi - thiruvotriyUr thyAgaiyer
appan avadaritha - karaharapriyA - Adi - pApanAsam sivan (S)
mArakOti sundari mAlini - bahudAri - Adi - gUdalUr nArayanaswAmy bAlasubramanian (RS@mArakOti)
nannu brOvu - lalithA - m cApu - shyAma sAstri
rAma kathA - madyamAvathi - Adi - thyAgarAja (RNS@bAmA mani, T)
garuda gamana - nAgasvarALi - Adi - patnam subramania iyer
RTP (maNi ramanI suramaNi bhUsuramaNi brOvavE bhuvanatraya kAntA) - kAntAmani - catusra triputa, kanda nadai. swaras in ragamalika (sriranjani, bAgesri?, hamIrkalyAni, some-kAfi-ish ragam?). swaras sung in misra jhampa as well.
viruttam (hindOlam?, mOhanam, brindAvana saranga) followed by kaliyuga varadan - brindAvana saranga - Adi - periyasAmi thooran
janma janma (abhang) - deshkali? - ? - sant eknath

[Lakshman]

There is a raga called dEshkAr which sounds like mOhana. There is also a rAgA called rAmkali which sounds close tomAyAmALavagauLa.

[sankark]

they announced the raga. it certainly was not ramkali. so has to be dEshkAr.

[sankark]

+ voice and range
+ virtuosity
+ synchronization, you hear one voice and smooth hand-over take-over when they alternate
+ bahudAri & nagasvarALi in the same concert - aren't they supposed to be somewhat similar? even I couldn't mistake bahudAri for nagasvarALi - the first phrase clearly established bahurdAri
+ nereval
+ full fledged RTP - around 45 mins without tani
- announcing before the song, would be better to announce after
- kAntamani felt lathAngish at start. these vivAdi's after 2 - 3 minutes makes me yawn and say, ok Move On.

the same pallavi could not be taken and easily sung in chintAmani - change kAntA to chintA and you are all set at the end, I didn't know whether I was happy or not. It had all the ingredients for a successful mind blowing concert but I felt like something was missing. I don't know what it is.

[rajeshnat]

mArakOti sundari mAlini - bahudAri - Adi - gUdalUr nArayanaswAmy bAlasubramanian (RS@mArakOti)

sankark
I am sure GNB would be too happy to see this post if you had also got bAlasubramaniam right. Tx for your review .

[mohan]

It had all the ingredients for a successful mind blowing concert but I felt like something was missing. I don't know what it is.

What was missing may have been elaborate treatment in one of the big ragas such as todi, bhairavi, kambhoji, kalyani or sankarabharanam.