Happy Birthday wishes to Vid. Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan!
Radioweb.in has featured today a series of short raga-pallavis from his 75 raga presentation which may be familiar to many. For me it is a wonderfully happy rendering. He presents the raga and the pallavi with cleverly composed words, the whole refreshing experience lasting a few minutes each. Anandabhairavi, Shana, Desh, Revati, many other ragas, lovely moments in all.
The audio quality is superb. The violin and mridangam artistes' names are not mentioned but they do a wonderful job.
After nearly a year of subscription to radioweb.in, I have this score-card for them:
Audio Quality *****
Presentation style *****
Studio setting presentation *****
Improvisation and kutcheri dynamic **
Hardware/software/bandwidth neutrality *
Daily range of selections *****
Timeshift *****