Vidwan Bellary Raghavendra at RFA

[yogu_n]

Vidwan Bellary Raghavendra's impressive singing at the Ranjani Fine Arts Monthly concert. He was ably accompanied by Vidwan Mattur Srinidhi on violin and Vidwan Tumkur Ravishankar on Mridangam.

The highlight of the concert was an excellent rendition of Vachaspati. There were quite a few lesser known kritis, which was quite a bit of learning to the audience. Many kritis of his own guru, Vidwan Seshagiri Achar, were presented. The kalpanaswarams had a very balanced mix of matehmatical patterns and raga based aesthetics.

Mattur Srinidhi played a well displined violin accompanist. Vidwan Tumkur Ravishankar was really brilliant, especially the taniavarttanam.

Overall, a fantastic fare. kudos to Ranjani Fine Arts for getting very good artistes for every concert!

[braindrain]

Here is the (in)complete list..

Vocal : Bellary M Raghavendra

Violin : Mathur Srinidhi

Mrudangam : Tumkur Ravishankar

Song List:

01. taruNi ninnu (varNam) – kAmbOji – Fiddle Ponnuswamy

02. gam gaNapatE namO namO – hamsadhwani – Muthaiah Bhagavathar ( short sketch,S)

03. sItamma mAyamma – vasanta – Thyagaraja ( O,S )

04. shankari sadAnanda lahari – mALavi – Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar

05. dhanyuDa vaithini(?) shrI thyAgarAjuni – vAchaspati – ?? ( A,S )

06. hari bhajanamE jIvanamu – sAma – ?? ( O )

07. kAyalAdenO krishNa kaNDavana? – hamsAnandi – Purandara Dasa

08. AnjanEyam upAsmahE -thODi – Bellary Seshagiri Achar ? ( A,N,S,T )

neraval @ ‘ tAraka manthOpAsakam shrIrAma hrdayE nivAsam ‘

09. RTP – kAmbOji – tisra triputa x 2 kaLai , 1/2 from samam

pallavi line ‘ Ananda natanam ADinAr , tadimi tadimi enru kanaka sabhayil’

swara in kAmbOji , no ragamalika swaras

short tani avartanam

10. thillAna ( dhim ta dhina dhiraNA tana dhiraNA) – kuntaLavarALi – ?

11. mangaLam jayamangaLam – madhyamAvati – Purandara Dasa

[keerthi]

DhanyuDavaitivi shrI tyAgarAja is by Seshagiri Achar. Interestingly, Prof. SambamUrthy has a composition on tyAgarAja, also in VAcaspati; and mIsu KRSNayyar has a composition in nAdabrahma - a janya of this rAga, on the bard.

[venkatpv]

Prof. SRJ's varnam on Tyagaraja, "bhUlOka nArada" is in Vandanadharini (SR2M2PD2S), which could also be considered to belong to the Vachaspati clan.