R SuryaprakAsh@hamsadhwani(Adyar) on March 21st,2007

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rajeshnat
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Post by rajeshnat »

Accompanied by vv ravi -violin and umayAlapuram mAli - Mrudangam

1. viribOni (varnam)- bhairavi - pachimiriyam AdiyappA
2. maanavyaalagincaraa(S) - naLinakaanti - T
3. nee daya raadaa (R)- vasantabhairavi - T

4. paramAsivAthmajam(R,S) - yamunAkalyAni - MD
5. sevikkavendumayyA (S) - AndOlikA - MuttutAndavar
6A. sarOjadalanetri (R N S T) - shankarabhAranam - ShyamaSAstri
18 minutes of rAga alApanai, 5 minutes of violin return,11 minutes of neraval and 9 minutes of swaram
6B. tani

7. RTP in a rare vijayanAgari
7 minutes of rAgam,8 minutes of tAnam ,9 minutes of pallavi + swaram
pallavi line in "lankA nagara vijaya hare rAmA"
Swarams in vijayanAgari + shyamA + hamsadhwani?? + darbAri kAnadA
8. devargal arul seidha - rAgamAligai - suryaprakAsh

9A.viruttam "manadhil urudhi vEndum" - darbAr + ranjani + kedaragOwlai + shuruTTi
9B. sivaperuman kripai vEndum - shuruTTi - pApanAsam Sivan
10. thullumatha vetkai - hamsanandi - thirrupugazh
11. mangalam - sAurAshtram + madhyamAvati.

A very good to excellent concert by suryaprakAsh, with 2 numbers being excellent.The second best experience in the concert was me hearing a detailed alApanai of yamunAkalyAni(never heard yamunakalyAni alApanai and a detailed swaram at all in my life) and a rare krithi(paramAsivAthmajam), with a very extensive swara pattern close to almost 6 minutes .

Liked his detailed rAgam,neraval and swaram in shankArabharanam,eventhough sarojadhalanetri is one krithi that I donot like as much as say an endukku peddala or a dakshinAmoorthe.

Definitely the best experience was hearing the vijayanAgari RTP which I liked a lot.TAnam of 8 minutes was simply outstanding.When a rasika requested him to sing a sivaperuman kripai vendum, liked his onspot manOdharmam when he sang bharathi's viruththam , where he sang his first line "manadhil urudhi vendum " at the end used a small tamil word "atharkkU", where he did a lot of shuruTTi shuruttal and then to my surprise ,connected "atharkkU" with "sivaperumAn kripai vendum". Not only me, quite a lot in the audience liked the same.

The mmi breeze was restricted to nalinakAnthi ,AndhOlika and the ata tAla varnam.His rAgamAliga was as usual well received.Liked also his manOdharmam in pallavi swararAgamaligai, particularly darbAri kanadA.Noticed over the years that his swara rAgamAliga and viruttam/slokham rAgamaliga is always decided onspot almost all the time.

The support of VV ravi was good in phases .MAli's mrudanga kalapramAnam was noticably inconsistent most of the time.Tani was just OK.
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knandago2001
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Post by knandago2001 »

@rajeshnat, "shuruTTi shuruttal" is indeed haunting and lyrical!!

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