Ccompanied by varadarAjan - violin, K ArunprakAsh - mridangam & B S PurushOtaman - kanjirA
1. swAmi nee maNam iraNgi - shreeranjani - pApanAsam sivan
2. ennagAnu rAma bhajana (N S)- pantuvarAli - BR
neraval in "rAmaciluka nokada penci "
3. Kanna Thanri Napai - Devamanohari - T
4. keezh vAnam vellENdru - dhanyAsi?? - AndAl tirruppAvai
5. ANandanatana prakAsam (RS,N) -kEdAram - MD
neraval in "Sangeetha vaadhya vinodha thandava"
6. devAdi deva - sunAda viNOdhini - MV
7a. RTP - keeravAni - Prof subramanian
12 minutes of rAga alApanai, 8 minutes of violin return ,10 mins of tAnam and pallavi with swaras -20 mins
pallavi "vaibavE viNavE shivE veDamE brOvavE"
swara rAgamAliga in keeravAni + malayamArutham?? + ? + ?
7B. tani
8. pAmarO muNga goPAludE ... emAni v .. momu muna cheyi??? - yadhukula kAmbOdhi?? - ???
9. nAlai varum enru nambalAmA - chandrakauns - madurai GS Mani
Gurucharan started with an excellent varnam rendition of Shivan in shreeranjani, a rare one which had so much of swara lakshanam imbibed in it, just felt the excellence of shivan as a vaggeyakkara was well exhibited. He followed up with the usually fast paNtuvarAli , with a very good rendition of neraval and swaras. If Shivan's brilliance was shown little before , ThyagarAja as a vaggeyakkara was amply demonstrated .ThyagarAja who had created kharaharapriya and also some excellent rAgas that are damn close to kharaharapriya (devaamruthavarshini and devamanOhari).Yesterday he sang a very pleasing and fast moving devamanOhari.
The concert dipped in tiruppavAi, to me gurucharan did not sing perfectly the dhanyAsi there was definitely quite a lot of Ahiri touches there. The aberration got beautifully adjusted with kedAram. kalakshetra's music is perhaps best defined with MDR ,and MDR's brilliance was in his kedaram . Gurucharan sang beautifully the kedaram number.
Gurucharan is gifted with a very melodious voice , Well with keeravAni he was at the right spot. A well spread and detailed alApanai and a well rounded tAnam was excellent . The pallavi was just very good , he sang 3 swara rAgamAliga apart from keeravANi , perhaps I spotted only malayamArutham ?? (hope it is not valaci), the other two I just missed.The swaras in pallavi were not as enticing as his RAgam and TAnam.
Usually gurucharan sings well rounded tukkadas , but to me his tukkadas were just good , the rush of the emotive chandrakauns of madurai gs mani was not that great finish. The one preceding that was I think was a javAli in ykkAMbOdhi??, found it too difficult to catch the diction there.
VaradarAjan was excellent , his keeravAni bowing was brilliant he played it in contrast to gurucharan's rendition, a slow moving keeravAni with minimal tone start and then a touch of violin symphony like vs narasimhan was perfect. His returns were excellent .The percussionist ArunprakAsh was average , His play in general always stumps me , his stroking is always predictable that too for few numbers there is a long silence then a gentle tap and then a little surge , mridangam dynamic nAdham was missing . BSP was just good perhaps he was finding it difficult to cruise along with arun, their tani was mediocre . OVerall a very good concert.