G Ravi Kiran at Seshadripuram Rama Navami - 19-4-2014

[pperumal]

This was one of the 3 concerts I attended at this venue (RKM, Malladi being the others).
The audio at this venue has been a source of distraction on all the days including this one but the artists performed spiritedly despite that.

Since it has been more than 5 days since I attended, I am just jotting the list from memory:

* vaa muruga - begada (S) at an atheetha edam - forgot the word
* ille vaikundham - varali purandaradasar sahityam (submain)
* samanamevaru - kharaharapriya - main (thani)
* nalinakanti RTP

loved the RTP because one doesn't get to hear much of this raga dealt with - especially liked the vigorous tanam.

hk venkatraman was on the violin and he played effortlessly.
bc manjunath played mridhangam and was overtly aggressive - contradicting the singer's gentle approach in the main piece...it was distracting. again i have heard this artist play very well before - so i just caught him on an off day i think.
the morsing artist (guru?) was not audible thanks to the acoustics but whatever i heard was very supporting.