Abhishek Raghuram - 12-Feb-2012 - Odukathur Mutt

[ranjanimalavi]

Abhishek Raghuram - Vocal
Akkarai Subbalakshmi - Violin
Ananth R Krishnan - Mridangam
Guruprasanna - Ganjira


1. apa rAma bhakthi - panthuvarALi - T (NS)
2. kArtikEya kAngEya gowrI tanaya - Thodi - P (RS)
3. Thani
4. Thillana - MohanaKalyani - Lalgudi (?)
5. Mangalam

I reached late around 7.00pm , when he started neraval in panthuvarALi.
Neraval and swaras were fantastic. It was really a downpour at the end.

Immediately he started thodi. The alapana was for almost 30 minutes and violin return was 15 minutes.
The swaras were very good.
Thani was good and I felt Guruprasanna was spectacular.
He was reproducing the swaras exactly for panthuvarALi and Thodi, which were very good.
Ananthakrishanan's mridangam was a bit on louder side.

I have never seen any concerts starting on time here, surprised he wound up at 9.00pm

Very high enegry concert.

Raman

[braindrain]

Raman,

Before Apparama bhakti...

1. sAmi ninnE kOri ( varNam ) - SrI ( O )

2. chAla kallalADu - Arabhi ( neraval @ 'iLalO sari..)

There was a detailed pantuvarAli alapana before apparama bhakti..

Too loud, too chaotic , too fast.... it was beyond my comfort. Somehow, I left the place disappointed. It was at the same venue last year, he gave a stupendous concert.