Malladi Brothers and Malladi Suribabu at Kalarasana, 26 Dec

[Jigyaasa]

Accompanists:

Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), V. Kamalakar Rao (Mrudangam), Udupi Sridhar (Ghatam)

Song list:

viribONi – bhairavi varNam
gAnamUrtE – gAnamUrti – Adi – Thyagaraja – S at pallavi
shrI mAtrubhUtam – kannaDa – mishra chApu – Dikshitar – A by Shri Suribabu, S at pallavi
karuNa jUDu – shrI – Adi – Shyama Shastri
durmArgachara – A, N, S at paluku
phaNipatishAyi – jhankAradhvani – Adi – Thyagaraja
mari mari vacchunA mAnava janmamu – kAmbhOji – Adi – Mysore Vasudevachar – A, N, S, T at rAmuni mahimalE Emani pogaDutu
parAtpara paramEshvara – vAcaspati – Adi – Papanasam Sivan
sAyankAlE kusumitasamayE – shlOkam by Shri Suribabu in Anandabhairavi, mOhanam, hindOLam, shuddha sarang followed by gOvardhana giridhara
mAyAmOhamu – jOg – Adi
shrIrAma jayarAma – yadukulakAmbhOji – Thyagaraja
mangaLam

The kannaDa AlApana was delightful and so were the swaras. The ranjani Alapana was the highlight of the concert for me. Shri Ravikumar's manOdharma is fantastic! He's been one of my favorites for many many years. The main item was a refreshing change from the songs usually sung in KAmbhOji. Nice line for neraval. The tani was quite noisy for my taste.

This was the first time I was hearing Shri Suribabu accompany the brothers and I must confess that I was quite apprehensive about it detracting from the concert experience. It was a pleasant surprise, however, to see a leonine voice add on to the two already on stage and the shlOka rendition by him completely reinforced the value-addition.