Shweta Prasad in Nanganallur, 1/2/2014

[sankark]

I Shweta Prasad vocal
Koalanka Saikumar violin
I Renuka Prasad mridangam
Sridaracharya ghatam

Organization: Nanganallur Sri Thyagaraja Sangeetha Samajam, Venue: Ranjani Hall

mAte malayadhwaja - khamAs - Adi - HMB (ragam sketch)
gAna sudhA rasa pAna niratam sAma - nAttai - Adi - ??BMK (ragam sketch, S@gAna)
mAyammA ani nE - Ahiri - Adi - SS
sItamma mAyammA - vasantA - rUpakam - T (r)
mAti mAtiki - mOhanam - m cApu - T (rs@mangalAkara)
virutham (ullAsa nirAkula) in pUrvikalyAni, kAnadA, behAg?, varALi
kA vA vA - varALi - Adi - PS
nadaci nadaci - karaharapriyA - Adi - T (rns@putami short tani)
slOkam (manO japam javam mAruta) in hamsanAdam followed by
banturIti - hamsanAdam - Adi - T (started in anupallavi)
mangalam

Please please please, current leading lady vocalists, stay away from her concerts
lest you get a inferiority complex regarding your voices. What a voice!

NSTSS - thousand salutes to you to have brought her from Hyderabad. It is a loss
to us rasikas that we haven't heard about such a great vocalist, so far. Hope next
season she comes and dazzles us with such good music. She made me like mOhanam
even

The only nereval was very short Not full fledged.

[balakk]

Must be this lady: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbeNDEqluG8

??

[sankark]

Indeed balakk. The recording though doesn't do justice to the voice. Should be listened live.

[rajeshnat]

I googled to find that shweta has learnt from Nethi Sri Rama Sarma . Also she happens to be the grand daughter of C Nagabhooshanam (Telugu actor of yesteryears).

Possibly some one(akella gAru, sivakami) can give more info about her school and shweta.

[sankark]

#2 (nAttai) seems to be a Dr Balamurali Krishna composition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptp83TqUR6U, edited the original post.

That mAyamma is certainly going to linger in my mind for quite some time. Leisurely rendered, with each kArvai of the mA in mAtlDa conveying different emotions (perhaps only in my mnid?) - "vandu tholaiyEndi" (exasperated won't you come) to "varappadAdhA" (achingly longing won't you come)

virutham - for a non-Tamil mother tongue person, the way she sang the virutham was eye opener.

Apart from very short nereval, I am not able to recall any mandra sthAyi forays either.

[rshankar]

Thank you for that review...it was not that long ago that forumites came to know of other gems from AP, like Smt. Manda Sudharani, and Smt. Pantula Rama, through uploads from Coolji. It's surely tine we added to that list.
Is the mRdangam player the vocalist's sister?

[sankark]

Renuka Prasad is Shweta Prasad's better-half.

[Sreeni Rajarao]

Is Sri Renuka Prasad from Bangalore? I ask because there is a mRdangist with the same name in Bangalore also.

[rshankar]

Renuka Prasad is Shweta Prasad's better-half.

Oops! Like Smt. Rama - her better half accompanies her!!

[vs_manjunath]

sankark- manO japam....shud be javam..it must have been a typo.