Saketharaman@BVB Main On Dec 10th,2025
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Vocal: Saketharaman
Violin : Kamalakiran vinjamuri
Mrudangam : NC Bharadwaj
Kanjira : Sunil Kumar
Tambura : Prasad
Concert Type : Nirvana - Non Ticketed concert
Day : Wednesday
Duration - 2 hours and 15 mins
Sabha/Hall : BVB/ Margazhi Mahotsav
01A.Viruththam -Oor Thirai velum ulavum uyir mayilai - gowlai - thirugnanasambandar
01B. mayilaiyil pirakka vEndum (S)- Gowlai - Rukmini Ramani (papanasam sivan daughter)
5 mins swaras
02. subramanyEna rakshitOham - suddhadhanyasi - MD
03A. slokham - AgrE pashyAmi tejO - hamsAnandi - narayaneeyam
03B. Pavanaguru(S) - hamsanAdam - LalithaDasar
8 mins swaras
04. kamalAmbA rakshitOham (R) - AnandaBhairavi - MD
06 mins alapana and 03 mins violin return
05. brOvabhAramA (S) - bahudAri - T
2 mins swaras
06. madurai arasAlum - rAgamaligai starting with DarbAri KAnadA - madurai sOmu or Annayampatti Adisesha Iyer
Saketharaman is surely maturing as a complete artist . In this concert he started and went exceptionally well upto the midpoint of the concert . Lot of tukkadas almost 30 mins in 2 hours and 15 mins was not to the best of my liking with atleast one outlandish number.
Saketharaman started with a lovely viruththam in thamizh . He pays a lot of attention to intonation and tries to sing without losing words . Viruththam a tirugnanasambandar one was well done. It was followed by a krithi taking a close tour of mylapore kapali temple . I guessed could that be Rukmini ramani as roughly within a year there was a concert exclusive to Smt Rukmini Ramani titled mylai pancharathnam or some thing like that .As i guessed saketharaman announced the krithi composer at the end the composer .
Many years back once casually i was talking with Rukmini Ramani where she told she and her sister Neela ramamurthi had so much done the notation work of her extraordinary work of Thamizh thyagayyar papanasam sivan. This composition is lovely , words were very moving like one phrase that said mylai is kayilai and kayilai is mylai which is a writing that i have seen inside Chennai popular kapali temple. Gowlai came out very well with a nice round of swaras, gowlai has a dearth of krithis , hope more musicians take this particular one.
Suddhadhanyasi stand alone krithi had a quite a touch of excellence but it just ended very quickly but still well done . Saketharaman takes an approach like TVS-Suryaprakash or a bit like taking a lot of viruththam /slokham prior to song rendition indeed saves a lot of time in this constrained concert . How can any one not like hamsanandi, saketharaman sang very well the narayaneeeyam along with chembai popularized pavanaguru. Hamsanandi had a interesting musical trajectory . Quite a bit of originality came in the Ananda bhairavi and the master piece KamalAmba rakshitoham as sung very well ,it was a stand alone krithi but being lengthy was quite ok. HE started with Vasudeva and then segued to brovaba ramaa with a cute but definitely extremely short circuited swaras, konjam sanjay like touches was there .
When darbari kanada alapana was on , i loved the choice . The Madurai somu popularized song that is also sung by few vidwans like suryaprakash was a great choice . Who is the composer is that anayampatti adiseshiah iyer , lovely krithi connecting tersely the temple and different avatars of ambal with a nice spread of ragamaliga ragas starting with darbari. This song also came up with seerkazhi govindarajan singing in some thamizh movie .
Saketharaman had a good sense of humour where he said at 8 PM he advanced the Madurai arasalum tukkada, mylapore BVB has a limited attention span , i dont know who sang before saketaraman i see over a period of time lot of floating crowd rasikas come to hear second half of evening 1 and first half of evening 2 , Saketaraman singing that Madurai arasalum was a bit of early round of pavamana for quite a lot of critical crowd of rasikas.
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Re: Saketharaman@BVB Main On Dec 10th,2025
07. manaiviyiN uppumA marakka mudiyumA (S) - Saranga??? -??Help needed for knowing this vaggeyakkara?
08A. Todi alapana for 4 mins by violin and then 8 mins of vocal alapana in both todi and bilahari
08B. TaayE yasodhE -todi and illai illai illai ammA - bilahari as a tit for tat court drama like song
brief neraaval for 3 mins in kaalinil silambu
swaras in both todi and bilahari for 8 mins
08B. tani for 11 mins
08. irakkam varAmal - behAg - GKB
09. kaakai siraginile -Durga, Surya and Phatdeep - Bharathiyar -Tuned by Lalgudi Jayaraman
10. smaranu sundarAnguni - pharas - Dharmapuri subbarAyar
11A. viruththam - siruviralgal tadavi parimAra - suddhadhanyasi - periazhwar paasuram
11B. brindAvanam ithuvO - suddha dhanyasi - suddanAnda Bharathi - Tuned by Sethalapathi Balasubramaniam
12A. viruththam - gurunadhan thunai - yamunAkalyani -??
12B. Krishna Krishna mukundha janardhana - yamunakAlyani - Ganapathi sachidAnanda
13. karpagamE - madhyamavati - PSivan
14. pavamANa - sowrashtram - T
At that time i was thinking quite an intense classically rich concert adhering to paddhati. Saket did a lot of intelligent selling thanking few patrons , talking bit about health and mental health post hamsanandi connecting narayaneeyam. It was apt did not rob the concert for sure - all that perhaps is there in his family which is also known for Sangeetha upanyasam. IN that same vein, he said Carnatic is all bhakthi based and put a small exclusion saying that it also rasa based . he said it can accommodate humour rasa. The composition that he took was manaiviyiN uppumA marakka mudiyumA, konjam lines were quite humourish and outlandish , the lines in charanam also had semiya ,rava etc.May i know who is the composer and i think the ragam is saranga. Felt the classical seriousness of the song was there but this kind of sahityam is a hit or not a hit.
His experimentation of singing taaye yasoda in todi along with bilahari with the lines illai illai was quite high on sahithyam - kind of colloquial thamizh by OVK.OVK tuned taaye yashodhe with many lines i am not sure if there was a later day tunesmith was done in bilahari. The bilahari was alternated in saket words as defence prosector . If the neraval and swaras were also detailed as this is the only main, it would have been far more interesting.Kalinil silambu could have been more but that did not happen, he made it up quite well in connecting both todi and bilahari.
Then it was way too much overdrive count of tukkadas . Being a free concert, usually one will not get RTP . This count of tukkadas did matter for my taste. Some first row person asked irakkam varamal, he sang well. His guru Lalgudi sir tuned bharathiyar song is lovely tune of Durga , kakkai sirainile ,faily modern ragas od primary Durga, was there a Surya?? and patadeep
The suddha dhanyasi was again recycled and sethalapathi popularised and tuned brindavanam ithuvo, the preceding paasuram was lovely . THe tukkadas party was well done till a point than the overdrive mode set within me .I am not a fan of Krishna Krishna mukhundha , became a bit of mada veedhi bhajanai than a paddhati pure play Carnatic concert. Some time the pharaz was registered well with smara sundarnguni and he thanked geetha raja who was there in the audience , all that was juicy full toss for NCB -Sunil to dazzle .The last master piece karpagamE was a lovely choice considering he starting with gowlai that also toured intensely the karpagambal temple.
A day back i heard kamalakiran with abhishek , he had limited pockets to play long in this concert , he has a fluid technique and remarkable precision. . He was asked to start with few minutes of todi alapana and he did very well . Also in that taaye yasodha i think in neraval or swaras there was a bedham to mohanakalyani , kamalakiran toyed well , to play bilahari and mohanakalyani in succession is a challenge to disambiguate and he did well.
The best of best was indeed NC Bharadwaj , he being a student of Karaikudi mani and uks was more of a vellore nadhabadran student . Lot of uninterrupted sarvalaghu was well received atleast by me . Their tani was nice and Sunil is turning out to be a star in the making , nice firm taps and lot of silence is best for kanjira.
All said , Saketaraman is bringing lot of ideas to concerts. May be uppuma song will have its own ramifications, it is bit like that rasam song of Nithyashree . WE have to see if it is a hit or not . HIs strength is to consciously rotate with a spread of nice thoughtful compositions . His voice over the years is opening out well , there is a bit of shrill or nasal touch in higher register , i am assuming in few years that will go away. The team was young and all of them did well without any brashness. For me excess tukkadas of around 7 in last 30 mins is ok for a 3 hour concert but not for 2 hour and 15 mins concert
Overall a very good to excellent concert for 2 hours and 15 mins.
08A. Todi alapana for 4 mins by violin and then 8 mins of vocal alapana in both todi and bilahari
08B. TaayE yasodhE -todi and illai illai illai ammA - bilahari as a tit for tat court drama like song
brief neraaval for 3 mins in kaalinil silambu
swaras in both todi and bilahari for 8 mins
08B. tani for 11 mins
08. irakkam varAmal - behAg - GKB
09. kaakai siraginile -Durga, Surya and Phatdeep - Bharathiyar -Tuned by Lalgudi Jayaraman
10. smaranu sundarAnguni - pharas - Dharmapuri subbarAyar
11A. viruththam - siruviralgal tadavi parimAra - suddhadhanyasi - periazhwar paasuram
11B. brindAvanam ithuvO - suddha dhanyasi - suddanAnda Bharathi - Tuned by Sethalapathi Balasubramaniam
12A. viruththam - gurunadhan thunai - yamunAkalyani -??
12B. Krishna Krishna mukundha janardhana - yamunakAlyani - Ganapathi sachidAnanda
13. karpagamE - madhyamavati - PSivan
14. pavamANa - sowrashtram - T
At that time i was thinking quite an intense classically rich concert adhering to paddhati. Saket did a lot of intelligent selling thanking few patrons , talking bit about health and mental health post hamsanandi connecting narayaneeyam. It was apt did not rob the concert for sure - all that perhaps is there in his family which is also known for Sangeetha upanyasam. IN that same vein, he said Carnatic is all bhakthi based and put a small exclusion saying that it also rasa based . he said it can accommodate humour rasa. The composition that he took was manaiviyiN uppumA marakka mudiyumA, konjam lines were quite humourish and outlandish , the lines in charanam also had semiya ,rava etc.May i know who is the composer and i think the ragam is saranga. Felt the classical seriousness of the song was there but this kind of sahityam is a hit or not a hit.
His experimentation of singing taaye yasoda in todi along with bilahari with the lines illai illai was quite high on sahithyam - kind of colloquial thamizh by OVK.OVK tuned taaye yashodhe with many lines i am not sure if there was a later day tunesmith was done in bilahari. The bilahari was alternated in saket words as defence prosector . If the neraval and swaras were also detailed as this is the only main, it would have been far more interesting.Kalinil silambu could have been more but that did not happen, he made it up quite well in connecting both todi and bilahari.
Then it was way too much overdrive count of tukkadas . Being a free concert, usually one will not get RTP . This count of tukkadas did matter for my taste. Some first row person asked irakkam varamal, he sang well. His guru Lalgudi sir tuned bharathiyar song is lovely tune of Durga , kakkai sirainile ,faily modern ragas od primary Durga, was there a Surya?? and patadeep
The suddha dhanyasi was again recycled and sethalapathi popularised and tuned brindavanam ithuvo, the preceding paasuram was lovely . THe tukkadas party was well done till a point than the overdrive mode set within me .I am not a fan of Krishna Krishna mukhundha , became a bit of mada veedhi bhajanai than a paddhati pure play Carnatic concert. Some time the pharaz was registered well with smara sundarnguni and he thanked geetha raja who was there in the audience , all that was juicy full toss for NCB -Sunil to dazzle .The last master piece karpagamE was a lovely choice considering he starting with gowlai that also toured intensely the karpagambal temple.
A day back i heard kamalakiran with abhishek , he had limited pockets to play long in this concert , he has a fluid technique and remarkable precision. . He was asked to start with few minutes of todi alapana and he did very well . Also in that taaye yasodha i think in neraval or swaras there was a bedham to mohanakalyani , kamalakiran toyed well , to play bilahari and mohanakalyani in succession is a challenge to disambiguate and he did well.
The best of best was indeed NC Bharadwaj , he being a student of Karaikudi mani and uks was more of a vellore nadhabadran student . Lot of uninterrupted sarvalaghu was well received atleast by me . Their tani was nice and Sunil is turning out to be a star in the making , nice firm taps and lot of silence is best for kanjira.
All said , Saketaraman is bringing lot of ideas to concerts. May be uppuma song will have its own ramifications, it is bit like that rasam song of Nithyashree . WE have to see if it is a hit or not . HIs strength is to consciously rotate with a spread of nice thoughtful compositions . His voice over the years is opening out well , there is a bit of shrill or nasal touch in higher register , i am assuming in few years that will go away. The team was young and all of them did well without any brashness. For me excess tukkadas of around 7 in last 30 mins is ok for a 3 hour concert but not for 2 hour and 15 mins concert
Overall a very good to excellent concert for 2 hours and 15 mins.
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Re: Saketharaman@BVB Main On Dec 10th,2025
Saketharaman@BVB Main On Dec 10th,2025
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Vocal: Saketharaman
Violin : Kamalakiran vinjamuri
Mrudangam : NC Bharadwaj
Kanjira : Sunil Kumar
Tambura : Prasad??
Concert Type : Nirvana - Non Ticketed concert
Day : Wednesday
Duration - 2 hours and 15 mins
Sabha/Hall : BVB/ Margazhi Mahotsav
GLICSPAWES 2025 "Goto LIve Concert Show PAtronage Without Excuses Series" concert #18 of xy(hopefully 30 is goal) is done.
www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=385234#p385234
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Vocal: Saketharaman
Violin : Kamalakiran vinjamuri
Mrudangam : NC Bharadwaj
Kanjira : Sunil Kumar
Tambura : Prasad??
Concert Type : Nirvana - Non Ticketed concert
Day : Wednesday
Duration - 2 hours and 15 mins
Sabha/Hall : BVB/ Margazhi Mahotsav
GLICSPAWES 2025 "Goto LIve Concert Show PAtronage Without Excuses Series" concert #18 of xy(hopefully 30 is goal) is done.
www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=385234#p385234