Sowmya for BGS, 14/Dec/2012

[sankark]

S Sowmya - Vocal
Embar Kannan - Violin
Neyveli Narayanan - Mridangam
KV Gopalakrishnan - Khanjira

calamEla (varnam) - nAttakurinji - Adi - moolaiveetu rengaswamy nattuvanaar
nAda lOludai - kalyAnavasantham - Adi - thyAgarAjA (S@ brahmAnanda)
kAmAkshi varalakshmi - bilahari - Adi - muthuswAmi dIkshitar (RNS@kAmakalE vimalE)
Anandamaya manamE - jyOtiswarUpini - Adi - wAlAjApet venkatramana bhAgavathar
innamum oru dharam - yadhukulakAmbhOji - Adi - gOpAlakrishna bhArathi (R)
srI pathE - nAgaswarALi - Adi - thyAgarAjA (S)
sri gurunA pAlitOsmi - pAdi - rUpakam - muthuswami dIkshitar
RTP mAl maruganai murugani ninai manamE dhinamE ganamE thiru - karaharapriyA - 6 + 2 + 2 - rAgamAlika ?, mOhanam (trikAlam, tani)
vA vElavA - sivaranjani - Adi - s rAmanAthan
krishna nI bEganE - yamunakalyAni - m cApu - vyAsarAyA
rAma nAmam bhajarE - madyamAvathi - Adi - thyAgarAjA
nI nAma rUpamulaku - madyamAvathi - Adi - thyAgarAjA

+ ~ 2:50 hours concert where everything sparkled except nAda lOludai - did the guy name this raga euphemistically kalyAnavasantham or had a very wry sense of humor - doesn't give vibe of kalyAnam or vasantham
+ yk AlApanai for 15 mins
+ karaharapriyA AlApanai for 30 mins
+ swarams for nAda lOludai & nagaswarALi
- very short tanam/pallavi compared to raga (overall including tani it went for 1:05 hours)

Doesn't the varnam have sahityam for cittai swarams too? She didn't sing though.
The RTP's talam was kept as 1+5, two drutams - what talam is that?

[mahavishnu]

Very nice list. Thanks for your post, Sankark.

Yes, the varnam does have sahityam for the chittaswarams. But hardly anyone sings this any more. Come to think of it, very few even do the chittaswarams in two speeds these days.

sri gurunA pAlitOsmi is an excellent composition. Not heard very often these days. Prof S Ramanathan used to sing this...

[sridhar_ranga]

RTP was in tisra jaati aTa taaLam, 2 Kalai: two laghus and two drutams, 3/3/2/2.

Loved the YKK and KHP alapanas, it was a wonderful concert overall.

[Jayalakshmi]

I really liked the way she sang Nada loludai