Sanjay at Milton Keynes (UK) on 11 April 2010

[jayaram]

Sanjay gave an excellent concert at Milton Keynes (UK) on 11th April 2010.
The concert was organised by Dhwani - http://www.dhwani.co.uk

Sanjay Subrahmanyan (vocal)
S Varadarajan (violin)
Neyveli Venkatesh (mridangam)

List of items:
1. Evari bodhana - Abhogi varnam
2. Anandamrithakarshini - Amritavarashini - Dikshitar
3. Nannu vidachi - Ritigowla - Tyagaraja
4. Oho kAlame - Sahana - Vedanayakam Pillai
5. Samaja varagamana - Hindolam - Tyagaraja
6. Needu charanamule - Simhendramadhyamam - KV Srinivasa Iyengar
- Tani -
7. Bhogindra Shayinam - Kuntalavarali - Swati
8. RTP - Brindavana Saranga - Adi (2 kalai)
swaras in: S'bharanam, Hamsanandi, Behag
- kutti tani -
9. Innamum oru sthalam - Behag - Marimutha Pillai
10. Nanda tanaya Govindana - Bageshree - P.Dasa
11. Tumbam nErkayil - Desh - Bharatidasan
12. Viruttam: Kh priya, Sindhubhairavi, Mand
13. Arumo - Mand
- Mangalam -

This was vintage Sanjay in action. I particularly enjoyed the Ritigowla, Simhendramadhyamam and Sahana, his forte ragam.
Varadarajan and Venkatesh provided top-class accompaniment.

[i_srinivasan]

I attended the full house concert in London@BVB on 10/4.

Concert duration - Almost 3hrs 40 minutes

He sung a very good Aadum Deivam Nee (Kambhoji) and RTP in Bageshri - Pallavi line "Ninnaiye Rathi Yenru Ninaikiren".

Other songs he sang (of the top of my head) were Deva Deva Jagadeeswara (PurviKalyani); Jaadigaliley (Sriranjani); sri matrubhutam ( kannada);Theril Yeri Naan (Kalyani) and Viruttam (Ragamalika start with Ananda Bhairavi)

Thani by Venkatesh, post-main (Kambhoji), drew a thunderous applause. Varadarajan by and large was very good -Couple of times especially during his response, I got an impression that sound system/setting was sub-optimal

I don't think Sanjay's voice was in great shape *throughout* the concert.

Interestingly there was a concert on 9/4 in Newcastle and that could perhaps explain the above.

I guess back to back concerts for 3 days with fair bit of travel must be quite
demanding!

Jayaram - Any idea if there are any further Sanjay concerts scheduled for this month in UK?

[sureshvv]

Needhu charanamule is not thyagaraja's even though it employs the same mudhra.

[rajeshnat]

Needhu charanamule is not thyagaraja's even though it employs the same mudhra.

Needhu charanamule is by K V SrinivAsa IyengAr

[jayaram]

Suresh, Rajesh - thanx for the correction.

[jayaram]

Jayaram - Any idea if there are any further Sanjay concerts scheduled for this month in UK?

Srinivasan - I believe there's a concert of Sanjay's being held on Sunday April 18th in Surrey, organised by Kavinkalai School of Fine Arts.
Date & time: 18th April, 6pm
Venue: Tolworth Girls School Hall, Fullers Way North, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 7LQ
Tickets: £20, £10
Contact phone numbers: 0791 938 8355 / 0795 693 4486 / 0795 768 2083
Contact email: [email protected] / [email protected]