V Sumithra - Akkarai Swarnalatha - R Sankaranarayanan
Navarathri Utsavam
Ratnagiriswara Swamy Temple, Besant Nagar
24 Sept 09. 6:45 pm
srI sarasvati namOstutE - Arabhi - tisra Ekam - MD
nI madi challaga - Ananda bhairavi - Adi - Kavi Matrubootayya (S)
tuLasi jagatjanani - sAvEri - tisra Ekam - T (RNS)
karuNai tandennai ALammA - bEgaDa - misra cApu - Mazhavai Chidambara Bharati
mAmava mInAkshI - varALi - misra cApu - MD (RS)
vamsavati sivayuvati - vamsavati - Adi - MD
bhArati dEviya - kharaharapriyA - Adi - PD (RNST)
caraNu caraNu - senjuruTTi - tisra Ekam - Anai Ayya
dharmasamvardhani - madhyamAvati - tisra Ekam - MD
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T
A very nice concert. The songs were carefully selected and presented. A string of well chosen dEvi kritis for the occasion of navarathri were rendered with the traditional gait and vigour. The AlApanais of sAvEri, varALi and kharaharapriyA were all very elaborate and done with lot of classical phrases and enough innovation built-in. The neraval svaram parts were all beautiful too. The accompanists were very good and gave good support through the concert.
Overall a wonderful concert.
bharath
PS: the bEgaDa kriti sounded just like 'kaDaikkaN vaittennai ALammA' of Ramaswamy Sivan