Karaikkal Venkatasubramanian & R Raghul - Fiddle Duet

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 27 Apr 2009, 13:41

Karaikkal Venkatasubramanian & R Raghul - Fiddle Duet
B Sivaraman - Mridangam
D V Venkatasubramanian - Ghatam

Chamber Concert
25 April 09. 6 pm

chalamEla jEsE - nATTaikuranji - Adi - Rangaswami Nattuvanaar (short sketch)
vAtApi gaNapatim - hamsadvani - Adi - MD (short sketch, S)
marivErE gati - Anandabhairavi - misra cApu - SS (R)
Ananda naTamADuvAr - pUrikalyANi - rUpakam - NS (R)
nAdatanumanisam - cittaranjani - Adi - T (S)
svara rAga sudhA - shankarAbaraNam - Adi - T (RtNS)
rAgamAlikA tAnam in shankarAbaraNam, varALi(KV), hamsanAdam(RR), malayamArutam(KV), valaji(RR)
tani
cinnanjiru kiLiyE - rAgamAlikA
tillAnA - pUrNacandrikA - Adi - RSI
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T
suruTTi short sketch

It was a good concert. The violinsts, though from different schools, shared a good rapport and presented a good concert together. The pieces were rendered well and the AlApanais and svarams were all good also. They both used some nice phrases, from rare compositions in developing the ragams and during the neraval svarams also. The accompanists played very well and accompanied the piece properly.

I enjoyed the concert.

bharath

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 27 Apr 2009, 15:34

Tsk tsk, bharath. You used 'nice' and 'rendered'. Some of our 'peevish about language' members must be frowning!!!

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 27 Apr 2009, 16:31

rbharath wrote: rAgamAlikA tAnam in shankarAbaraNam, varALi(KV), hamsanAdam(RR), malayamArutam(KV), valaji(RR)

malayamArutam(KV), valaji(RR) in succession , must have been the closest overlap ever in rAgamAliga in succession .

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 27 Apr 2009, 21:05

prashant, i have not been following the 'language' thread at all. i m hence clueless about what you mean. and i think, i have been rather consistent with the tone of my reports for people to understand what i actually mean.

rajesh, indeed yes...

tkb · Post by **tkb** » 28 Apr 2009, 04:14

Thanks rbbharath for the post. Both the violin artist are good and with these enhancement artists i am ure the concert would have been excellent. Any chance of audio clipping?

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 28 Apr 2009, 05:39

rbharath: prashant is kidding. It is good you do not follow that thread. You may have to resort to something like 'I do not have any words to describe the concert' and let your readers think it was a great concert.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 28 Apr 2009, 08:13

Bharath,
Your nice is nice enough for me. Of course Prashanth is kidding. Wish he would kid around in the language thread too, to stop folks from taking it all too seriously.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 28 Apr 2009, 08:18

RR, I believe, is our violinlover who's MC's disciple. Who's (I kid, I kid) disciple is KV?

sankirnam · Post by **sankirnam** » 28 Apr 2009, 08:49

Venkat is a disciple of TNK.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 28 Apr 2009, 09:44

Totally kidding, bharath!!!

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 28 Apr 2009, 09:48

prashant wrote:Tsk tsk, bharath. You used 'nice' and 'rendered'. Some of our 'peevish about language' members must be frowning!!!

I have also not followed all of the language thread, but as I recall, it was "rendition" that was frowned upon. I thought "rendering" was OK? Of maybe I'm really splitting hairs here.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 28 Apr 2009, 10:29

vasanthakokilam wrote:rbharath: prashant is kidding. It is good you do not follow that thread. You may have to resort to something like 'I do not have any words to describe the concert' and let your readers think it was a great concert.

vk, it was indeed a good concert in reality, and i m not being sarcastic at all... i hence want the readers to think it was a good concert.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 28 Apr 2009, 14:35

Basically, when you say good concert, you mean good concert.

When you say great concert, there's a chance of it being sarcastic.

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It was an enjoyable concert. They played well as a pair, but I have heard RR solo and as an accompanist and KV as an accompanist too, and felt there could be some parts where they were each given full individual space, so that we could listen to that side of them too.

violinlover · Post by **violinlover** » 28 Apr 2009, 19:30

thanx srikant,
point noted.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 28 Apr 2009, 22:35

srikant1987 wrote:felt there could be some parts where they were each given full individual space, so that we could listen to that side of them too.

i beg to differ. i feel that it spoils the whole point of a duet.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 28 Apr 2009, 23:29

bharath: Where I was going was, in that other thread different people have different pet peeves and the combined set, if taken seriously, would not leave any words for you to write about concerts.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 30 Apr 2009, 10:55

@ rbharath

I was going by the duet by their gurus, TNK and MC.

The part a co-member of a group plays as an extremely avid and encouraging listener also takes the concert to great heights.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 30 Apr 2009, 21:48

@srikant, to each his own...
whatever u say, i dont think that is good for duets...