Vid D Seshachari & D Raghavachari - vocal duet
Vid H.K.Venkatram - violin
Vid K.V.Prasad - Mridangam
Vid M.A.Krishnamurthy - Ghatam
Vid M.Gururaj - Morsing
1. ninnukori (varnam) - mohanam - adi
2. marubalga - sri ranjani - adi 2 kalai - thyagaraja (alapana, swara @ marubalga)
3. sri sathyanarayanam - subhapantuvarali - rupakam - muthuswami dikshitar (alapana, swara @ sarvam vishnu mayam)
4. brova bharama - bahudari - adi - thyagaraja (alapana, swara @ brova bharama)
5. kanugonu sowkhyamu - nayaki - adi - thyagaraja
6. etavunara - kalyani - adi 2 kalai - thyagarja (alapana, neraval & swaram @ sri karuduku tyagaraja kararchita, tani avarthanam)
7. elarada ena kamini - bhairavi - padam?
8. mathada bara deno - kamas (outline)
9. garuda gamana garuda dhwaja - hindolam - annamacharya (outline)
10. jagadodharana - kapi - adi - purandara dasa
11. pavamana - sowrastram - mangalam - thyagaraja
Varnam was sung in two speeds, for all parts. Sri ranjani alapana was done by seshachari and swaras were rendered well, no lengthy or unnecessary swaras combinations. subhapantuvarali alapana, again by seshachari was nice, and HKV's response was equally good. Majority of bahudari alapana was done by raghavachari. Again, HKV response was well measured and was with classic pidis. Swara singing was little excessive. Kalayni alapana was shared by brothers, this time, raghavachari sung less, and more by seshachari. His voice not very co-operative at times. Instead of swaras for almost all keerthanas, i would have preferred a neraval for one of the keerthanas earlier. It was a decent concert, however. Percussion department did their part well.
-hari
Hyderabad brothers @ Seshadripuram College, Bangalore - 11 A
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vijay
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I briefly listened to the Rama Seva Mandali concert - featured Sreepathe in Nagaswaravali, Korinavaramu in Ramapriya, Annapurne in Syama and Dasarathi in Thodi. Ramapriya is often sung by the brothers and the neraval was very good indeed. Thodi alaapana was exhaustive although Seshachary had the same kind of voice problems Hari mentions. Graha bedham to Mohanam from Rishabham was neatly done. Don't have all the details of accompnists but KV Prasad was in great form although the audio arrangements were somewhat loud...
Unfortunately personal preoccupations have prevented me from listening to more concerts in what is a veritable mini-season currently on in Bangalore
Unfortunately personal preoccupations have prevented me from listening to more concerts in what is a veritable mini-season currently on in Bangalore
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ForCarnaticMusic
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Just when I am enjoying the review and the details of the concert with nice krithis, your comment is like thorn under the feet. This topic is obsolete. I request you if you can, please stay with the music not people.appam wrote:in all the concerts by the brothers in the last two or three years,that i have been to Seshachari seems to dominate the show and Raghasvachari almost has to grab his rendition.LOL
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sadvimarsha
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appam: "I do not understand how does it prevent u from enjoying the review". So you enjoy the review... and not the concert?
In the above concert, the Kalyani raga elaboration was equally shared by the brothers with perfect understanding and the mood of the raga was so meticulously brought out that the evening was made all the more pleasant along with the already existing cool breeze.
Friends, let us enjoy the music and the reviews.
In the above concert, the Kalyani raga elaboration was equally shared by the brothers with perfect understanding and the mood of the raga was so meticulously brought out that the evening was made all the more pleasant along with the already existing cool breeze.
Friends, let us enjoy the music and the reviews.
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rajaglan
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vijay wrote:I briefly listened to the Rama Seva Mandali concert - featured Sreepathe in Nagaswaravali, Korinavaramu in Ramapriya, Annapurne in Syama and Dasarathi in Thodi. Ramapriya is often sung by the brothers and the neraval was very good indeed. Thodi alaapana was exhaustive although Seshachary had the same kind of voice problems Hari mentions. Graha bedham to Mohanam from Rishabham was neatly done. Don't have all the details of accompnists but KV Prasad was in great form although the audio arrangements were somewhat loud...
Unfortunately personal preoccupations have prevented me from listening to more concerts in what is a veritable mini-season currently on in Bangalore
Somehow I have a feeling that they sing Bahudhri, Ramapriya, sreeranjani in submain and Sama as a filler almost always.
I love their Korinavaramu neraval in a record. It beats any top CM singer rendition of today. Can someone highlight whether this raga has close resemblence to any other raga. I am unable to get that.
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SreeR
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This was a balanced concert with a great start Bhairavi varnam, all time favorite of many rasikas setting the right mood and pace. I wish brothers sing such varnams more often. Glad Sadvimarsha mentioned Rakshimpave Rajitha giri nilaya, a rare krithi with such powerful words like ‘Kukshilo Prapanchamu Nirvahinchina Neeku’, very few can bring justice and right emotion to such words written by St. Tyagaraja and Hyderabad Brothers are one of those few and brothers did justice. Rest of the concert was good as mentioned by Vijay and others and I wish to see them with more new challenges for their submain, main items. Sadvimarsha please leave the laptop at stage - old topic.
The concert was delayedd slightly due to some confusion regarding violin accompanist. Originally it was announced Nagai Sriram will be on violin and K V Prasad on mridangam and I was surprised to hear that since I know that Nagai Sriram is in US, close by to where we live on teaching assignment or something and accompanying T M Krishna for US concerts. Didn’t know how organiers missed the detail, later found that through one of the audience that this is a common thing these days that few accompanying artists commit to more than one place. Interesting detail.
Both audience, brothers and K V Prasad who was on mridangam waited patiently and finally they decided to start the concert with the junior violinist who played for the earlier junior’s slot and Dr. Jyothna joined from Garuda Gamana krithi. Both violinists played well though they are not senior artists and to to be honest I didn’t miss Nagai SriRam. Some of the credit goes to Brothers in accommodating the last minute change keeping the audience in focus. KV Prasad was wonderful as ever compliementing the vocalists.
Respected appam, I appreciate you are the messenger of truth and what benefit are you providing audience through this thread? As ForCarnaticMusic mentioned, your point was beaten to death and the fact is true rasikas are not interested. I may have misunderstood your statement and if I did, I apologize. If your interest is in the best interst of audience, please walk up to the stage and tell the artists how you feel. This may benefit everybody. Brothers looked fine on the stage and sang in perfect harmony and I wish to see them in US soon. We enjoy both brothers with similar style, yet maintaining their uniqueness and nobody can argue with the fact that their voices compliment each other. I wish and pray God that He blesses them with the same success for ever as duos.
Living is US, quite a few of us have the pleasure of hosting artists from India during their concert tours and get to know them. The fact is everybody has an interesting personality and some experiences are not pleasant but we put a concious effort not to digress from their music and treat them with respect. These artists are like any other people we come across in our day to day routine with a difference that only because of their dedication and commitment to music, carnatic music is still seeing it’s glory and I appreciate all the artists taking music to new heights and God Bless them all.
The concert was delayedd slightly due to some confusion regarding violin accompanist. Originally it was announced Nagai Sriram will be on violin and K V Prasad on mridangam and I was surprised to hear that since I know that Nagai Sriram is in US, close by to where we live on teaching assignment or something and accompanying T M Krishna for US concerts. Didn’t know how organiers missed the detail, later found that through one of the audience that this is a common thing these days that few accompanying artists commit to more than one place. Interesting detail.
Both audience, brothers and K V Prasad who was on mridangam waited patiently and finally they decided to start the concert with the junior violinist who played for the earlier junior’s slot and Dr. Jyothna joined from Garuda Gamana krithi. Both violinists played well though they are not senior artists and to to be honest I didn’t miss Nagai SriRam. Some of the credit goes to Brothers in accommodating the last minute change keeping the audience in focus. KV Prasad was wonderful as ever compliementing the vocalists.
Respected appam, I appreciate you are the messenger of truth and what benefit are you providing audience through this thread? As ForCarnaticMusic mentioned, your point was beaten to death and the fact is true rasikas are not interested. I may have misunderstood your statement and if I did, I apologize. If your interest is in the best interst of audience, please walk up to the stage and tell the artists how you feel. This may benefit everybody. Brothers looked fine on the stage and sang in perfect harmony and I wish to see them in US soon. We enjoy both brothers with similar style, yet maintaining their uniqueness and nobody can argue with the fact that their voices compliment each other. I wish and pray God that He blesses them with the same success for ever as duos.
Living is US, quite a few of us have the pleasure of hosting artists from India during their concert tours and get to know them. The fact is everybody has an interesting personality and some experiences are not pleasant but we put a concious effort not to digress from their music and treat them with respect. These artists are like any other people we come across in our day to day routine with a difference that only because of their dedication and commitment to music, carnatic music is still seeing it’s glory and I appreciate all the artists taking music to new heights and God Bless them all.
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SreeR
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This was a balanced concert with a great start Bhairavi varnam, all time favorite of many rasikas setting the right mood and pace. I wish brothers sing such varnams more often. Glad Sadvimarsha mentioned Rakshimpave Rajitha giri nilaya, a rare krithi with such powerful words like ‘Kukshilo Prapanchamu Nirvahinchina Neeku’, very few can bring justice and right emotion to such words written by St. Tyagaraja and Hyderabad Brothers are one of those few and brothers did justice. Rest of the concert was good as mentioned by Vijay and others and I wish to see them with more new challenges for their submain, main items. Sadvimarsha please leave the laptop at stage - old topic.
The concert was delayedd slightly due to some confusion regarding violin accompanist. Originally it was announced Nagai Sriram will be on violin and K V Prasad on mridangam and I was surprised to hear that since I know that Nagai Sriram is in US, close by to where we live on teaching assignment or something and accompanying T M Krishna for US concerts. Didn’t know how organiers missed the detail, later found that through one of the audience that this is a common thing these days that few accompanying artists commit to more than one place. Interesting detail.
Both audience, brothers and K V Prasad who was on mridangam waited patiently and finally they decided to start the concert with the junior violinist who played for the earlier junior’s slot and Dr. Jyothna joined from Garuda Gamana krithi. Both violinists played well though they are not senior artists and to to be honest I didn’t miss Nagai SriRam. Some of the credit goes to Brothers in accommodating the last minute change keeping the audience in focus. KV Prasad was wonderful as ever compliementing the vocalists.
Respected appam, I appreciate you are the messenger of truth and what benefit are you providing audience through this thread? As ForCarnaticMusic mentioned, your point was beaten to death and the fact is true rasikas are not interested. I may have misunderstood your statement and if I did, I apologize. If your interest is in the best interst of audience, please walk up to the stage and tell the artists how you feel. This may benefit everybody. Brothers looked fine on the stage and sang in perfect harmony and I wish to see them in US soon. We enjoy both brothers with similar style, yet maintaining their uniqueness and nobody can argue with the fact that their voices compliment each other. I wish and pray God that He blesses them with the same success for ever as duos.
Living is US, quite a few of us have the pleasure of hosting artists from India during their concert tours and get to know them. The fact is everybody has an interesting personality and some experiences are not pleasant but we put a concious effort not to digress from their music and treat them with respect. These artists are like any other people we come across in our day to day routine with a difference that only because of their dedication and commitment to music, carnatic music is still seeing it’s glory and I appreciate all the artists taking music to new heights and God Bless them all.
The concert was delayedd slightly due to some confusion regarding violin accompanist. Originally it was announced Nagai Sriram will be on violin and K V Prasad on mridangam and I was surprised to hear that since I know that Nagai Sriram is in US, close by to where we live on teaching assignment or something and accompanying T M Krishna for US concerts. Didn’t know how organiers missed the detail, later found that through one of the audience that this is a common thing these days that few accompanying artists commit to more than one place. Interesting detail.
Both audience, brothers and K V Prasad who was on mridangam waited patiently and finally they decided to start the concert with the junior violinist who played for the earlier junior’s slot and Dr. Jyothna joined from Garuda Gamana krithi. Both violinists played well though they are not senior artists and to to be honest I didn’t miss Nagai SriRam. Some of the credit goes to Brothers in accommodating the last minute change keeping the audience in focus. KV Prasad was wonderful as ever compliementing the vocalists.
Respected appam, I appreciate you are the messenger of truth and what benefit are you providing audience through this thread? As ForCarnaticMusic mentioned, your point was beaten to death and the fact is true rasikas are not interested. I may have misunderstood your statement and if I did, I apologize. If your interest is in the best interst of audience, please walk up to the stage and tell the artists how you feel. This may benefit everybody. Brothers looked fine on the stage and sang in perfect harmony and I wish to see them in US soon. We enjoy both brothers with similar style, yet maintaining their uniqueness and nobody can argue with the fact that their voices compliment each other. I wish and pray God that He blesses them with the same success for ever as duos.
Living is US, quite a few of us have the pleasure of hosting artists from India during their concert tours and get to know them. The fact is everybody has an interesting personality and some experiences are not pleasant but we put a concious effort not to digress from their music and treat them with respect. These artists are like any other people we come across in our day to day routine with a difference that only because of their dedication and commitment to music, carnatic music is still seeing it’s glory and I appreciate all the artists taking music to new heights and God Bless them all.
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vs_manjunath
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rajaglan- "I love their Korinavaramu neraval in a record. It beats any top CM singer rendition of today. Can someone highlight whether this raga has close resemblence to any other raga. I am unable to get that."
Ramapriya is a mEla Kartha Ragam. The subject song is by Patnam. "smarAmyaham sadA rAhum" , the rAhu navagraha krithi of MD is also in this rAma priya rAgam. It's a lovely rAgam, rarely handled by Vidwans.
Ramapriya is a mEla Kartha Ragam. The subject song is by Patnam. "smarAmyaham sadA rAhum" , the rAhu navagraha krithi of MD is also in this rAma priya rAgam. It's a lovely rAgam, rarely handled by Vidwans.
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braindrain
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Pretty bad. The Rama Varma's concert was marred by the poor audio. I guess they are doing some serious work on that.rajeevsid wrote:how are the accoustics of the auditorium? How is the sound system? May come over to Bangalore in another 10 days.. wanted to know about the venue... etc??
The audio at fort School ground isn't any better.
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rajeevsid
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Well thanks for your warning , so as to say!!! I have visited a couple of the fort high school concerts. They made me sit in the front rows for 100 bucks.. Other than that I thought the audio was okay, not bad. I mean I would give it a 6.5 out of 10. I mean thats all one can expect of an open air concert.. no reverbbraindrain wrote:Pretty bad. The Rama Varma's concert was marred by the poor audio. I guess they are doing some serious work on that.rajeevsid wrote:how are the accoustics of the auditorium? How is the sound system? May come over to Bangalore in another 10 days.. wanted to know about the venue... etc??
The audio at fort School ground isn't any better.
!!!How would you say Seshadripuram compares to fort...
Thanks
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rajeevsid
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endaroo@ sorry for digressing.. just wanted to know thats all..
Heard Hyd Bros singing nerval of Korinavaramu .. It was one of the better renditions I had heard ..
Also heard an annamacharya revathi krithi 'naanati braduku' of theirs, in a concert once .. That, to me is their signature piece...
Heard Hyd Bros singing nerval of Korinavaramu .. It was one of the better renditions I had heard ..
Also heard an annamacharya revathi krithi 'naanati braduku' of theirs, in a concert once .. That, to me is their signature piece...
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Nick H
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Since when was audio quality irrelevant to a concert?endaroo wrote:My dear members
OO what a questions and opinion in this Hyderabad Brothers concert chapter. "Where is venue and poor audio etc.."
Of course it is relevant!
When it comes to the Chennai season, there are those that consider the quality of the dosa to be worth mentioning... with that, I suppose you could argue the relevance. If you absolutely must.
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rajeevsid
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NickH- Well as you said concert audio quality is very very relavant. But I think endaroo meant that it was not relavant in this concert discussion that's all...
I am guilty of digressing and for that I once again apologize. but of late I have attended some concerts which have been raised to another level because of great accoustics like in Shanmukhananda Mumbai.. and well some where the floor fan's buzz is so high that one hardly hears any music above that buzz like in the recent TM krishna concert at Hamsadhwani, Chennai.. I would place the Fort High school grounds somewhere in the middle... Just wanted to know if its worth travelling from Whitefield where my hotel will be to Seshadipuram College if the venue audio quality is going to be really poor..
I am guilty of digressing and for that I once again apologize. but of late I have attended some concerts which have been raised to another level because of great accoustics like in Shanmukhananda Mumbai.. and well some where the floor fan's buzz is so high that one hardly hears any music above that buzz like in the recent TM krishna concert at Hamsadhwani, Chennai.. I would place the Fort High school grounds somewhere in the middle... Just wanted to know if its worth travelling from Whitefield where my hotel will be to Seshadipuram College if the venue audio quality is going to be really poor..
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SreeR
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I agree, if the quality of the audio is not good, all the effort the artists put into goes waste. People may come from far distances and they may have several other things to attend to. When the audience are making this as priority, it is organizers responsibility to provide decent venue and . Can't take the audience for granted, in this jet age they will go somewhere else and spend that Rs.100.
Any consolation, I had the pleasure of attending concerts in Los Angeles hosted by SIMA, poor acoustics, have seen much better auditoriums in Chennai and Hyderabad.
Any consolation, I had the pleasure of attending concerts in Los Angeles hosted by SIMA, poor acoustics, have seen much better auditoriums in Chennai and Hyderabad.
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s_hari
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Rajeev - Audio quality is okay in Seshadripuram venue. In prince rama varma concert - it was worse.rajeevsid wrote:NickH- Well as you said concert audio quality is very very relavant. But I think endaroo meant that it was not relavant in this concert discussion that's all...
I am guilty of digressing and for that I once again apologize. but of late I have attended some concerts which have been raised to another level because of great accoustics like in Shanmukhananda Mumbai.. and well some where the floor fan's buzz is so high that one hardly hears any music above that buzz like in the recent TM krishna concert at Hamsadhwani, Chennai.. I would place the Fort High school grounds somewhere in the middle... Just wanted to know if its worth travelling from Whitefield where my hotel will be to Seshadipuram College if the venue audio quality is going to be really poor..
-hari