Sri TM Krishna - Bengaluru - 17 Feb 2009

hariharans · Post by **hariharans** » 17 Feb 2009, 23:02

Sree Ramakrishna Bhajana Sabha Trust
Odukathur Swamigal Mutt, Ulsur
Bengaluru - 560 042
17 Feb 2009 - Tuesday - 06:15pm

Sri TM Krishna - Vocal
Sri Sriram Parasuram - Violin
Sri Tiruvarur Bakhtavatsalam - Mridangam
Sri Vyasa Vittala - Kanjira

01 sri gana nAtham - Esamanohari - rupakam - S
02 pAhi sarasugunAlaya - Anandabhairavi - Adi(2) - S
03 parama krupA sAgari - yadukula khAmboji - rupakam
04 meenalochana brohva - dhanyAsi - - misra chApu - R, N at kAmapAlini bhavAni chAndrakalAdari
05 sevikka vendumayyA - AndolikA - Adi
06 nAdopAsana - begadA - Adi(2) - R, N at tantri laya swara rAga, S, T
07 RTP - devagAndhAri - misra truputai
Enneramum nAn undhan sannidhiyile irukka vendummayyA
pallavi rAgamAlikA: kAphi
08 sarvam brahma mayam - madhuvanti - Adi
09 thillAna - kAnadA - rupakam
10 mangalam

rajaglan · Post by **rajaglan** » 17 Feb 2009, 23:27

Hi ,

I missed the RTP. I left the hall after the main song assuming that there is no time for RTP.

The highlight is Begada. The neraval and the swarams were spellbinding and his usual trademark.
There was a lonnnng clap for the neraval, I have never heard such a breadth challenged performance.
After the swarams, TBV took some water before starting thani , smiling and praising to TMK.
Great treat for begada fans, Sanjay gave a Begada main (anudinamu) in venugopala swamy
temple, not so long back.

The next highlight is the meenalochana brohva, My impression was that this song is usually handled in a
textbook standard approach, but TMK gave it added detailed alapana and neraval. My current fav
songs are anything in begada and Meenalochana, so what else can I ask for.

I was very happy when leaving the auditorium. Thanks to TMK. The crowd was overflowing the
hall and outside the hall in projected screen. Accompanists gave great support, especially
sriram parasuram's begada alapana was very good. the AB song and swarams for the first two songs
were good too. TMK announced the raga of the first song, otherwise I was guessing of vegavahini.

akb · Post by **akb** » 17 Feb 2009, 23:55

This was my second concert in Bangalore (after a brief sojourn with Kanyakumari at Ananya last week) and it was a very nice experience. The Dhanyasi, Begada, and Devamanohari alapana elaborations were excellent. TMK's stage presence, his involvement with his music, his creativity, and some of the low octave phrases in Dhanyasi and Begada were the highlights. Sriram Parasuram was simply fantastic on the violin; the sensitivity of his accompaniment, the measured responses and the sowkhyam in his music made it a great concert. His response during the ragamalika section in the pallavi (kApi) was the unforgettable moment for me in the concert. Of course TMK's neraval in Begada was a tremendous intellectual exercise with great breath control. I felt that at some places the sound was very loud and the hall's acoustics did not particularly help. Sri Bhaktavatsalam was remarkably sensitive at most places in the concert although certain passages were too fast and too loud for my aural comfort. The kanjira artist was an important rhythmic component to the success of the concert and I felt that the passages in which he accompanied Sriram Parasuram were particularly noteworthy.

All in all a nice concert, well worth the missed dinner and the long bus ride back. Mysore Nagaraj and Manjunath perform tomorrow accompanied by UKS.

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 18 Feb 2009, 06:12

hariharans wrote: 02 pAhi sarasugunAlaya - Anandabhairavi - Adi(2) - S

It could have been pAhi tArAkSupurAlayA by svAti tirunAL mahArAjA tuned by SSI in Ananda bhairavi.

eppramod · Post by **eppramod** » 18 Feb 2009, 07:09

Yes it was indeed an awesome concert ,but i have observed this is usual for his Odukkathur Mutt concert.
Highlights for me were AB kriti and its swaras,Dhanyasi Neraval,Begada main,Devagandhari Ragam/Thanam and the Kapi swaras during RTP ragamalika

#02 was indeed pAhi tArAkSupurAlayA by svAti tirunAL mahArAjA,this kriti is on Lord shiva of Vaikom Mahadeva temple kerala.
#03 is GNB's composition i suppose
#08 is a Sadashiva Brahmendra Kriti right?
Whose compostion is the Kanada thillana?

V_Vijayasarathy · Post by **V_Vijayasarathy** » 18 Feb 2009, 08:13

Does anyone record the concert ? Pls could you share it with me. Thanks

rajaglan · Post by **rajaglan** » 18 Feb 2009, 10:41

V_Vijayasarathy wrote:Does anyone record the concert ? Pls could you share it with me. Thanks

The official answer for this would be NO from everyone.
But I am sure someone will record for learning purpose.
If you are looking for listening purpose, then the quality will be very bad.

My cousin likes TMKs neraval. I was waiting for his neraval and it happened only in the main , the AB neraval was
short and at low speed. I happen to record the begada neraval " which lasted as long as 3.50min , just the high speed
last cycle (climax), not the full neraval" .

rajaglan · Post by **rajaglan** » 18 Feb 2009, 10:43

akb wrote: Sriram Parasuram was simply fantastic on the violin; the sensitivity of his accompaniment, the measured responses and the sowkhyam in his music made it a great concert. His response during the ragamalika section in the pallavi (kApi) was the unforgettable moment for me in the concert. .

You are very correct and I agree with you.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 18 Feb 2009, 11:00

V_Vijayasarathy wrote:Does anyone record the concert ? Pls could you share it with me. Thanks

No request for recordings of contemporary artists please. Especially TMK, who has objected to such sharing previously.

vaidya · Post by **vaidya** » 18 Feb 2009, 12:38

Fabulous concert!!! Can someone confirm whose composition is parama krupa sagari?

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 18 Feb 2009, 14:04

Is it GNB's?

kedharam · Post by **kedharam** » 18 Feb 2009, 18:43

Yes, It is GNB's masterpiece. One of a very few of his own compositions that GNB has rendered in his concerts. There is a beautiful exploration of parama kripa by by S. kalyanaraman at sangeethapriya.

vaidya · Post by **vaidya** » 19 Feb 2009, 09:08

Thanks Kedharam.Will check it out in Sangeethapriya

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 19 Feb 2009, 10:14

begada main immediately followed by devagAndhAri RTP ,is it not too much overlap of rAgas (considering both are janyas of s'bharanam) to be presented in the same concert.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 19 Feb 2009, 12:38

Rajesh: Those two are aesthetically quite different ragas, so that should not have caused any issues. Also, Begada with its special modulation of Ni in many prayogas can syntactically belong to 29 or 28.

rajaglan · Post by **rajaglan** » 19 Feb 2009, 22:36

vasanthakokilam wrote:Rajesh: Those two are aesthetically quite different ragas, so that should not have caused any issues. Also, Begada with its special modulation of Ni in many prayogas can syntactically belong to 29 or 28.

As a laymen to the science behind CM, I find both the ragas totally different in listening pleasure.
But in a sense we are used to the gana ragas as main, Begada as a main is different.
But both Sanjay and TMK made it look grand in both their concerts by singing begada as main.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 20 Feb 2009, 04:24

IMHO, even some of the seemingly light ragas, assume weight in the hands of great musicians when they expand them and explore them; they take us to such depth of the raga which we can never imagine. It is sheer BLISS.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 20 Feb 2009, 09:52

Punarvasu,
Agreed. Though some weighty rAgAs suffer in the hands of lesser musicians and attain a light rAgA's stature! In general, even light rAgAs (with a good kruti, however brief) can reach the stature of a heavy rAgA in expert handling.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 20 Feb 2009, 10:51

arasi, exactly; had wanted to add it but forgot. You read my mind.

Purist · Post by **Purist** » 20 Feb 2009, 13:29

Punarvasu wrote:IMHO, even some of the seemingly light ragas, assume weight in the hands of great musicians when they expand them and explore them; they take us to such depth of the raga which we can never imagine. It is sheer BLISS.

Very right. For instance Vagadeeswari raga reached zenith in the hands of late TKR.
So is Sunadavinodini by Balamurali. So well they have been expounded, it is very difficult
to find a close second. Perhaps we can start a separate thread of identifying such great one's.

KSJaishankar · Post by **KSJaishankar** » 20 Feb 2009, 19:55

The Kaanada Thillana is a composition of Ariyakkudi Ramanuja Iyengar ... I have heard Sri KVN render it after announcing it to be his guru's composition.

I had requested him to sing Devagandhari RTP by email, and he was kind enough to oblige! Actually, once he started Begada, I was reasonably sure he would not sing Devagandhari, but I was very pleasantly surprised.

Sad if such a grand concert is lost to posterity, much like the great Kapil Dev's landmark 175 at Tunbridge Wells in 1983!

annamalai · Post by **annamalai** » 20 Feb 2009, 21:20

I would like to hear thanam in madhyamakala rendered in Devagandhari; would sound so similar to arabhi ?

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 20 Feb 2009, 21:54

Very interesting observation.

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 21 Feb 2009, 01:10

KSJaishankar wrote:The Kaanada Thillana is a composition of Ariyakkudi Ramanuja Iyengar ... I have heard Sri KVN render it after announcing it to be his guru's composition.

Oh, nice piece of info. I thought the bilahari thillana was SrI ARI's lone composition. DKP/DKJ used to sing this thillana with amazing accompaniment of PMI. PMI used to literally play the thillana on the mridangam (no I'm not exagerating!). Does this one also have the rAmadAsa mudra?

ganeshpv · Post by **ganeshpv** » 16 Oct 2010, 01:21

Hi guys,

Is the Kanada Thillana rendered in above concert same as http://sangeethamshare.org/manjunath/Ca ... kAnada.mp3 ?????

Pallavi: Dhim Tana nana Dhirana Dhim... Sahitya: Shreekara sugunaakara surasevitha...

(Please note other Kanada Thillana (attributed to Poochi and sometimes to TQ) has a similar sahitya. But Pallavi goes: thom tha thani thani tha dirana).

Please let me know.

Ganesh.

nuyorker · Post by **nuyorker** » 16 Oct 2010, 03:38

rajeshnat wrote:begada main immediately followed by devagAndhAri RTP ,is it not too much overlap of rAgas (considering both are janyas of s'bharanam) to be presented in the same concert.

This is exactly the sort of inane quibbling we could do without, considering how rare it is to hear a pallavi in a rakthi ragam like Devagandhari. Besides, we're talking about the major scale here, right? It isn't like he sang two janyas of Vakulabaranam consecutively.

The concern about thanam sounding like Arabhi is completely legitimate - my guess is TMK must have been just a tad repetitive in his phrases to establish the difference.

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