Sri Madhava Rao and the U/S are close friends for more than five decades. We used to attend FREE concerts in Chennai.
He used to visit my home often to listen to the music of many artists which I have collected over the years.
He is a scholar in the Kannada krithis of many Dasars.
The legend Smt. MLV was the first artist to tune and sing many Dasar krithis[The composers of Dasar krithis were not tune smiths]
and each Kannada bhajan group used sing to the Dasar krithis in different ragams.
Sri Madhava Rao will be going through many Dasar krithis and select songs that were not tuned by many. He used to mull over songs he likes and will experiment with many ragams and after many days, he will be satisfied with one ragam and sing it many times.
Like this many Dasar krithis were tuned by him with different ragams.
Years back,One day, I requested Sri Madhava Rao to sing some Dasar songs and explain to me the meaning of the songs.
He sang 11 Dasar songs tuned by him and explained the meaning of each song. He sang with out any sruthi box.
I have added the sruthi later with my little knowledge in computer.
I used to like the Durga Ragam very much and frequently used to listen and many of my friends like it and the same song was sung
in our Bangalore Rasikas meet and all of them liked it very much.
I am giving the drop box links of the Dasar krithis sung by Sri Madhava Rao so that all our Rasikas may enjoy.
Drop Box link of the folder with the MP3 versions of the Dasar Krithis by Sri Madhava Rao 20.12.2014:
http://bit.ly/MadhavaRaoDasarkrithis