2023 Mar 26 MysoreManjunath MysoreSumanth YellaVenkateshwaraRao NAmruth ArunKumar SVN Ramanavami @ BGS

Violin: Vid. MysoreManjunath Vid., MysoreSumanth 

Mridanga: Vid. YellaVenkateshwaraRao 

Khanjari: Vid. NAmruth 

Keypad, Morsing: Vid. ArunKumar  

Occasion / Venue: SVN Ramanavami @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja

01 rArA mAyiNTi dAka raghuvIra asAvEri Adi tyAgarAja (O)

02 mAkElara vichAramu ravichandhrike Adhi tyAgarAja (S)

Swara at makelara

03 mAmava mInAkshi rAjamAthangi varALi mishra chApu m.dhIkshithar (A, N, S)

Swara at mamava minakshi

04 rAma kaThA suDhA madhyamAvathi Adi tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)

05 pibarE rAma rasam Ahirbhairav Adi sadASiva brahmEndra

06 gItaduniku dhanasri tillAna dhanasri Adi swAti thirunAL

07 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adhi tyAgarAja

2023 Mar 18 VigheshIshwar SaiRakshit DelhiPSairam ChandrashekaraSharma MSDSpecial_BGS

Vocal: Vid. VigheshIshwar 

Violin: Vid. SaiRakshit 

Mridanga: Vid. DelhiPSairam 

Ghata: Vid. ChandrashekaraSharma

Occasion / Venue: Muttuswami Dikshitar special concert / Bangalore Gayana Samaja

01 brihaspathe brahmajate namostute te aTANA tripuTa m.dhIkshithar (S)

swaras at brihaspate

02 shEshAchala nAyakam bhajAmi varALi rUpaka m.dhIkshithar (A, S)

swaras at purandarAdi dIkpAlam

03 SrI mAtA shiva vAmAngE shri chakrarupa tatake bEgaDa m.dhIkshithar (O)

04 shri gurunA pAlitOsmi sachchidananda nathena pAdi rUpaka m.dhIkshithar (S)

swaras at padAmbujEna

05 rUpamu jUchi valachi vachchitini kopamu setura tODi padavarNa Adi m.dhIkshithar (A, N, S, T)

kalpana swaras at mArakOTi

06 kamalAsana vandita pAdAbje noTTuswara shankarAbharaNa m.dhIkshithar

07 shrI kamalAmbikE shivE pAhimAm lalitE shrI kEka m.dhIkshithar

2023 Mar 18 AishwaryaVIdhyaRaghunath SandeepRaghavendra DelhiPSairam ChandrashekaraSharma MSDSpecial_BGS

Vocal: Vid. AishwaryaVidhyaRaghunath 

Violin: Vid. SandeepRaghavendra 

Mridanga: Vid. DelhiPSairam 

Ghata: Vid. ChandrashekaraSharma

Occasion / Venue: Muttuswami Dikshitar special concert / Bangalore Gayana Samaja

01 sadA ChalEshwaram chamatkara purageham BhUpAla rUpaka m.dhIkshithar

02 shrI dUm durgE shiva sAmsarge chidrasavarge Shriranjani KEka m.dhIkshithar (A, S)

swaras at srI dum durgE

03 shrI mAtrubhUtam trishiragiri kannaDa m.cApu m.dhIkshithar (A, N, S)

nereval at kOmalakara

swaras at suvasita

04 shri vishwanATham bhaje 14 rAgamAlike Adhi m.dhIkshithar (O)

05 pAhi mAm ratnAchala nAyaka mukhAri Adi m.dhIkshithar (A, N, S, T)

nereval and swaras at pAhi mAm

06 Ehi annapurne sannidhehi sada purne suvarne PunnagavarALi Adi rUpakam m.dhIkshithar (O)

2023 Feb12 AbhishekRaghuram HNBhaskar PatriSatishKumar GiridharUdupa SRLKM SpringFest

 Vocal: Vid. AbhishekRaghuram 

Violin: Vid. HNBhaskar 

Mridanga: Vid. PatriSatishKumar 

Ghata: Vid. GiridharUdupa 

Occasion / Venue : SRLKM SpringFest / Bangalore Gayana Samaja

01 sukhi evvarO rAma nAma kAnada Adhi tyAgarAja (S)

02 Bhakti bichchamiyyave bhavukamagusatvika shankarAbharana rUpaka tyAgarAja (O, S)

03 Emi jEsitE nEmi shrI tODi rUpaka tyAgarAja (A, N, S)

04 manasA shrI rAmachandruni IshamanOhari tyAgarAja

05 rAkA shashi vadhana takka Adi tyAgarAja

06 kAmakshi ni padayugame yadukulakAmbOdhi  swarajati  MisraChapu shyAmA shAstri

07 sattalEni dInamulu vachchenA nAganandini Adi tyAgarAja (A, S)

08 rAga tAna pallavi ranjani Adi 

Pallavi line composed by Mysore Nagaraj

kailAsapate pashupate umApate

rAgamALika in sahAna

Tani

09 nArAyaNa tE namO namO bEhAg Adi aNNammAchArya

10 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adhi tyAgarAja

2022 Nov 18 CharulataRamanujam AnooorAnanthaKrishnaSharma RanganathaChakravarthy MANMF21st Annual Music Festival

Violin: Vid. CharulataRamanujam 

Mridanga: Vid. AnooorAnanthaKrishnaSharma 

Ghata: Vid. RanganathaChakravarthy 

MANMF21st Annual Music Festival

01 tuLasIdaLa mAyAmALavagauLa rUpaka tyAgarAja (O)

02 sItApate nA manasuna siddhantamani yunnanu khamAs deshAdi tyAgarAja (O)

03 nambi kettavar illavO rangayyana kalyANi m.chApu p.dAsa (A, N, S)

04 raksha bettarE dhoraku bhairavi Adi tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)

05 tillAna mOhankalyANi Adi LGJ

06 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adhi tyAgarAja

2022 Oct16 MalladiBrothers DrNishanthChandran TumkurRavishankar TumkurShashishankar @52nd BGS Conference

Vocal: Vid. MalladiBrothers 

Violin: Vid. DrNishanthChandran

Mridanga: Vid. TumkurRavishankar

Ghata : Vid. TumkurShashishankar

Occasion:  52nd BGS Conference

ConcertDuration: 3hrs 6 mins

01 palukavEmi nA daivamA pUrNachandrika Adi tyAgarAja (O, S)

swaras @ palukavEmi

02 tuLasIdaLa mAyAmALavagauLa rUpaka tyAgarAja (O, S)

swaras at tuLaidaLa

03 mArubalka kuna vEmira mA manOramanNa shrIranjani Adhi tyAgarAja (A)

04 dEva dEva jagadIshwara (tiruvanantapuram) pUrvikalyANi Adi swAti thirunAL (A, N, S)

nereval and swaras @ pAvanApuma nijaguNa

05 tyAgarAjam bhajarE rE yadukulakAmbOdhi m.cApu m.dikshitar (short AlApane)

06 ninnuvinA marigalada ritigaula rUpaka / Adi khaNda naDai syAmA shAstri

07 nannu pAlimpa mOhana Adhi tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)

nereval and swaras at surapati nIla

08 sadA enna hridayadalli bEhAg Adi vijaya dAsa

09 rAga tAna pallavi surUTi misra tripuTa 2 kalai, 3 beats edupu

pallavi Line: suraTichE visarada sukhamuga shayaninchara .. gAna lOla bAla gOpAla

rAgamAlika in kalyANavasantha, Ahiri, nIlAmbari, bEhAg, navrOj

10 rAma rAma rAma rAma rAmA enniro tilAng thishra Adi p.dAsa

11 shlOka (manOjavam mArutatulya vEgam in hamsanAdam) followed by 

baNTurIthi kOlu vIyavayya rAma hamsanAdha dhEshAdhi tyAgarAja

12 maraLi maraLi jaya mangaLam madhyamAvati and mangaLa shlOka

2022 Oct 15 RamakrishnanMurthy VittalRangan NCBhadwaj SNNarayanaMurthy @52nd BGS Conference

Vocal: Vid. RamakrishnanMurthy

Violin: Vid. VittalRangan

Mridanga: Vid. NCBharadwaj

Ghata: Vid. SNNarayanaMurthy

Occasion: 52nd BGS Conference

Concert Duration: 3Hrs 3Mins

01 gajavadana bEDuve gauri tanaya kEdAra TALA p.dAsa

02 vidhulaku mrOkkEdha mAyamALavagouLa Adhi tyAgarAja (S)

03 kanulAra kaNTini (kanchipuram) dhanyAsi rUpaka WalakapetVenkataramanaBhagavatar (A, S)

04 mAtADa bAradEno mA ramaNanE kamAs m.cApu narahari dAsa (A)

05 telialEru rAma Bhakthi mArgamunu dhEnuka Adi tyAgarAja (S)

swaras at teliyalEru

06 sarOjadaLanEtri himagiriputri shankarAbharaNa Adi shyama shastri (A, N, S, T)

started at anupallavi

nereval at sAmagAna vinOdini

07 rAga tAna pallavi ritigauLa k.triputa

pallavi line: shankarItigauLAnga shivastIti chintayE sadA parama bhaktava

ragamalika in nArayaNaguLa, gauLa, kEdAragauLa, kannadagauLa

08 bArO krishNayya mAND Adi kanaka dAsa

09 viruttum shlOka ( dhamaruga ninna .. in darbAri kAnaDa, yamunakalyANi)

10 jambUpatE mAm pAhi nijAnandAmrta yamunAkalyANi m.dIkshitar

2022 Oct 14 NishaRajagopalan HMSmitha BCManjunath SukanyaRamagopal @52nd BGS Conference

Vocal: Vid. NishaRajagopalan

Violin: Vid. HMSmitha

Mridanga: Vid. BCManjunath

Ghata: Vid. SukanyaRamagopal

Occasion: 52nd BGS Conference

Concert Duration: 3hrs 10 Mins

01 shlOka (akhaNDamaNDalAkAram in mAyAmALavagauLa) followed by 

vanajAksha ninne nammi bEhAg varNa Adi TRS

02 rAma nI samAnamevaru Kharaharapriya rUpaka tyAgarAja  (O, N, S)

started at anupallavi

nereval and swaras at paluku paluku

03 paralOka bhayamu lEka mandAri Adi tyAgarAja (A)

04 srI venkata girIsham surUTi Adi m.dIkshithar (A, N)

nereval at alamElu mangA samEtam

05 shlOka (namOstu dEvyai) in lalitA followed by

hiraNmayIm lakshmIm bhajAmi lalita rUpaka m.dhIkshitar

06 ninnE nammi nAnu sadA tODi misra cApu shyAma sAsthri (A, N, S, T)

nereval and swaras at kAmAkshi kanja dalAyatAkshi

07 Odi bArayya vaikunTapathi ninna nOduve mandhaNia mOhana Adi p.dAsa

08 rAga tAna pallavi kApi k.tripuTa sA bAlikApi chandikaAm

pallavi line: sA bAlikApi chaNdikA pAtu mAm sadA jagadambikA 

ragamalika in ranjani, Arabhi, ??, aTANA, shanmukhapriyA )

09 shlOka (dhyAnavu kritayugadalli ..in sindhubhairavi) followed by 

tambUri mITidava bhavAbdhi dATidava sindhubhairavi eka p.dAsa

10 sAgara shayana vibho bhAgyashri Adhi MD rAmanAThan

11 kshIrAbdhi kanyaku shrI mahAlakshmikini nira Kurinji ChApu annamAchArya

12 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adhi tyAgarAja

2022 Oct 09 SikkilGurucharan HKVenkataram HSSudhindra OmkarGRao @52nd BGS Conference

Vocal: Vid. SikkilGurucharan  

Violin: Vid. HKVenkataram  

Mridanga: Vid. HSSudhindra 

Ghata: Vid. OmkarGRao 

Occasion: 52nd BGS Conference

ConcertDuration: 2hr 55Mins

01 sarasUDa ninnE kOri sAvEri Adhi kotthavAsal venkatarAma iyer (O)

02 girija ramaNa gambhIranATa c.tripuTa mysUru vAsudEvAcAr (O, S)

Swaras at charana. Mahaganapathi..

03 abhayAmbikAyaha anyam kEdAragOwLa jhampa m.dIkshitar (A)

Swaras at pallavi

04 Emani pogaDudurA shrI rAma nI vIravasantam Adi tyAgarAja

05 pAhi jagajanani vAchaspathi Adi S.thirunAl (A, N, S, T)

Nereval and swaras at mOhana dhara gAtri

06 ellAru mADOdu hoTTegAgi shankarAbharaNa rUpaka kanakadAsa

07 rAga tAna pallavi shudda dhanyAsi m.cApu 

Pallavi Line: muruga kumara umayAL mayinda sharavana bhava guha vaDivazhaga

rAgamAlika in  shudda sAvEri, xx, shudda dhanyAsi

08 vagalAdi bOdhana bEhAg rUpaka thirupathi nArAyaNaswAmi

09 tillana sindhubhairavi Ootukadu Venkata Kavi

10 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adhi tyAgarAja

2022 May 04 SanjaySubrahmanyan SV NV BR @ SRLKM SpringFest

Vocal: Vid/ SanjaySubrahmanyan 

Violin: Vid. S Varadarajan 

Mridanga: Vid. Neyveli B Venkatesh

Morsing: Vid.  B Rajashekar 

Venue / Occasion: BGS / SRLKM's 60th Birthday Celebrations of Vedanta Iyengar + Annual SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL

01 budhamAshrayAmi satatam nATakuranji k.cApu m.dIkshitar (O, S)

swaras @ budhamAshrayAmi

02 brOva samayamidE rAmayya gowri manOhari Adi Garabhapurivasa

03 nE pogaDakuNTE nIkEmi varALi jhampa tyAgarAja (A, N, S) 

Nereval and saras at nIraja nayana shrI tyAgarAjanuta rAma

04 kaDavuLai maravAde tANDavam Adi MMDandapaniDesigar

05 shlOka (rAjAdhirAja makuTItaTa) followed by pAlinchu kAmAkshi madhyamAvathi Adi shyAmA shAsthri (S, N, S)

nereval and swaras at kAntamagu

06 onde manadali bhajisi chArukEshi Adi p.dAsa (A)

07 Arukkum ADangAda bEgaDa Adi HMB (S)

swaras at Arakku

08 rAga tAna pallavi Anandabhairavi chaturaSra tripuTa (T)

ragamAlika in sahAna, shubhapantuvarALi

09 mAtADa bAradEno mA ramaNanE kamAs m.cApu narahari dAsa

10 gOpAla bhaktim mE dEhi bAgEshrI swAtitirunAL

11 karpagambikai nI allavo bEhAg Adhi pApanAsham shivan

12 sindhubhairavi tillAna Adi SKR

13 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adhi tyAgarAja

2021 November 28 Trichur Brothers HMSmitha TrichurMohan KovaiSuresh MANMF20thAnniv

Vocal: Vid. Trichur Brothers  

Violin: Vid. HMSmitha 

Mridang: Vid. TrichurMohan 

Ghata: Vid. KovaiSuresh

Venue / Occasion: M A Narasimhachar Foundation 20th Anniv, 

Bangalore Gayana Samaja

01 calamEla jEsEvayya (varNa) nATakuranji Adi MulaivittuRangasamiNattuvanar

02 gajavadana bEduva hamsadwani purandaradAsar (O, S)

03 sUrya mUrtE sowrAsTra chaturaSra dhruva m.dhIkshithar

04 amba paradEvathE rudrapriyA krishnaswamy ayyah (Chitteswaras, S)

swara at amba paradEvate

05 gAnamUrtE shrI krSNa gAnamUrti Adi tyAgarAja (A, S)

swara at gAnamurte

06 raghuvamsha suDhA kadhanakuthUhala Adhi patNam subrahmaNya iyer

07 rAga tAna pallavi bEhAg chaturaSra tripuTa 2 Kalai on samam

varanAsi purapatim bhaje vishwanatham

ragamalika swaras in madhuvanti, hindola, kApi

tani

07 bhaja bhaja mAnasa harim anavaratham sinDhubhairavi Adhi swAthi thirunAL (O)

08 pitham teliya marundondruteliya senjuruti gOpAlakrishna bhArati (O)

09 tIrtha viTTala kshEtra viTTala abhANG 

10 Omana tingaL KiDAvo navarOj malayALam lullaby

11 rAmachandrAya janaka mangaLam kuranji bhadrAcala rAmadas

Felt refreshing to attend a concert in person after a long time, and what a way to break the long hiatus. It was a wonderful concert by the brothers and looking forward to attending one more next week as a part of the Gayana Samaja Conference.

2018 Oct 28 SanjaySubrahmanyan SVaradarajan NeyveliVenkatesh BRajashekhar 49thBGSConference

Vocal: Vid. SanjaySubrahmanyan 
violin: Vid. SVaradarajan 
Mridanga: Vid. NeyveliVenkatesh 
Morsing: Vid. BRajashekhar 

Occasion: 49thBGSConference

01 I nAdamulO nATa varNa Adi BMK

02 kumAraswamynam asAveri Adi m.dIxitar

03 kalayAmi raghuramaM bEgaDA swAtitirunAL (A, S)

04 evaritO ne delpudu rAma nAlOni jalini mAnavati Adi tyAgarAja (A, S)

05 koluvaiyunnADe kOdanDapANi bhairavi Adi tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)
neraval& svara @ ‘manasu ranjilla sura satulu aNimAdulu koluva vEyi vannE ‘

06 Ananada kUtADinAr kalyANi Gopalakrishna Bharathi

07 rAga tAna pallavi Arabhi khaNDa Eka one beat after samam
pallavi line : rAjIvAkSA bArO, rAdhA ramaNa
ragamalika svaras in hamsadhvani, AbhOgi , kEdAram, ranjani, bahudhAri and hamsAnandi

08 beTTada mElondu maneya mADi nIlamaNi m.cApu akka mahAdEvi vachana

09 japat japat hari nAm rAgamAlika swAti thirunAL

10 nInAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja

2018 Oct 26 SSaketharaman AkkaraiSubhalakshmi PatriSatishkumar BhagyalakshmiKrishna @ 49thBGSConference

Vocal: Vid. SSaketharaman 
Violin: Vid. AkkaraiSubhalakshmi 
Mridanga: Vid. PatriSatishkumar 
Morsing: Vid. BhagyalakshmiKrishna 

Occasion: 49thBGSConference

01 shri guruguha Shuddha sAvEri rUpaka m.dhIkshitar (S)

02 tALa bEku takka mELA bEku bhairavi p.dAsa (A)

03 pari pAhimAm siddhivinAyaka vakulAbharaNa JCW (A, S)

04 amba nIlAmbari nIlAmbari Adi ponnaiah piLLai (A)

05 Mukhya prANa enna mUlaguruv nIlamaNi p.dAsa

06 tuLasI bilva mallikAdi kEdAragauLa Adi tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)

07 mAsil ayOdhyayil lullaby rAgamAlika nIlA rAmamurthy

08 rAga tAna pallavi sindhubhairavi tiSra tripuTa khaNDa naDai

09 bhAgyAda lakshmi bAramma madhyamAvati Adi purandaradhAsa

10 dhIm tanata dhIm tanatana (t) pahADi chApu Lalgudi Jayaraman

11 nInAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja

2018 Oct 25 Kumaresh JayanthiKumaresh (ViolinVeena) PatriSatishkumar GGuruprasanna @ 49thBGSConference

Violin: Vid. Kumaresh 
Veena: Vid. JayanthiKumaresh 
Mridanga: Vid. PatriSatishkumar 
Khanjira: Vid. GGuruprasanna 

Occasion: 49thBGSConference 

01 nera nammithinayya VarNa kAnada k aTa pUchi shrInivAsa iyengAr

02 gaNapathE mahAmathe kalyANi rUpaka m.dhIkshithar

03 mA jAnaki chetta bettagA kAmbOdhi Adi tyAgarAja (A)

04  Vasantha in its purest form Vasantha m.cApu GK JK (A, S)

05 sadA madin dalatu gAdara mudaspada nagajadhi gambhIravANi Adhi tyAgarAja

06 rAga tAna pallavi shaNmukhapriyA miSra tripuTa 2 Kalai, eDupu 3 beats after samam (RS, T)
Pallavi Line: guha muruga pArvati kumar nI virai vinilvA mayil mIdu varum dEva

07 folk song in bEhAg

08 madhyamAvati medley

2018 Oct 23 SSowmya VittalRangan TumkurRavishankar Srishailan @ 49thBGSConference

Vocal: Vid. SSowmya 
Violin: Vid. VittalRangan 
Mridanga: Vid. TumkurRavishankar 
Ghata: Vid. Srishailan 

Occasion : 49thBGSConference

01 sAmi daya jUDa varNa kEdAragauLa tiruvetriyUr tyAgarAja (S)
Swaras at charaNa

02 sObillu saptaswara jaganmOhini rUpaka tyAgarAja

03 evarIkai avatAram ettitivO dEvamanOhari Adi tyAgarAja (A, S)
Swaras at Veda..

04 bhOgIndra shAyinam kuntalavarALi jhampa swAthiThirunAL

05 parAshakti manuparAdA sAvEri Adi tyAgarAja (A, N, S)
Nereval @ purANi dharma saMvardhani
Swaras @ tripurAri

06 rAga tAna pallavi kalyANi m.cApu 1 7th atIta eDupu
pallavi line : srIpate dayAnidhe karuNajaladhe  pAhi
RMK in valaji VarALi .. shaNmukhapriya.. bilahari.. srI.. and one stretch in reverse order
Tani

07  I muddu krishnana I kshanada sukhave sAku

08 tAm tAm tAm khamAs tillAna

09 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja

2018 Oct 21 TrichurBrothers BKRaghu TrichurMohan DVVenkatasubramaniam @ 49thBGSConference

Vocal: Vid Trichur Brothers 
Violin: Vid B K Raghu 
Mridanga: Vid. Trichur Mohan 
Ghata: Vid. D V Venkatasubramaniam 

Occasion: 49th BGS Conference

01 Sumukaikadanta  kapila  saraswati Adi varNa swAmi xxx bhArathi (O)

02 gOpAlaka pAhimAm rEvagupthi tripuTa swAthi thirunAL (O, S)
Swaras at gOpAlaka

03 ranganAyakam bhAvayE nAyaki Adi m.dhIkshitar

04 ShObillu saptaswara jaganmOhini rUpaka tyAgarAja
Swaras at shObhillu

05 mOkshamu galadhA sAramathi Adi tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)
Nereval at vINA gAnamu (instead of vAdana) lOluDau
Swaras at shivamanO

06 bAla gOpAla krishnan misra mAND YK 

07 lakshmI kAntA bArO mOhana Adi p.dAsa (O)

08 Om namO nArAyaNa karNaranjani k chApu ambujam krishNa

09 rAga tAna pallavi bEhAg ChaturaSra triputa on samam
VAranAsi purapathim..bhaje vishwanAtham
Swaras in rItigauLa, dEsh, sindhubhairavi

10 harivarAsanam hariharasuthAshtakam madhyamAvati kambamgudi kulathur iyer

11 mangaLa shlOka

I have been contemplating to restart my attendance to my favourite music concerts for quite some time. However my vocational responsibilities has been overtaking to be on top priority for quite some time in the last one year. Gayana Samaj brought a healthy list of concerts as a part of their 49th Annual festival and triggered my interest to attend the concerts. While the list is quite attractive, let me see how many of them I can attend  / make it to some of them because of my personal engagements.

Today to Trichur brothers attempt to start off something new with a varna they never presented earlier was a welcome change, than the usual set of varnas. They presented Saraswati Raga varNa composition of a Swamiji containing the 16 names of Ganpati. The brief for intro through rEvagupti outline opened up a flood of swaras from the krithi that followed.

muttuswAmi dIkshitar composition in nAyaki - ranganayakam was a perfect diffuser between two fast paced songs that not only demonstrated their ability to think fast but also to be creative. 

The detailed sAramati AlApane and the very popular mOkshamu Galada occupied almost 1 hour 20 minutes of the entire 3 hour concert duration.  After few fillers in mAND, mOhana and karNaranjani , it was 8:45 in the evening when they asked whether we have time for china Pallavi, interestingly audience cheered for it and for next 30 minutes was spent into detailing the Pallavi. There was no reference shared towards the origin of Pallavi line. rAgamalika swaras in rItigauLa , dEsh and Sindhu Bhairavi very very interesting. A very evocative Harivarasanam (seems to be the song of the season) brought out tears in the eyes of the audience as they also participated in singing the song. This 3 hour concert would be in our memories for long time. BK Raghu on the violin was clearly heard throughout the concert. Percussion duo of Trichur Mohan and Venkat Subramaniam were apt not only in their tani but also through the concert. It was a well spent evening with Trichur Brothers.

2017 Nov 12 RanjaniGayathri HNBhaskar ManojSiva OmkarGRao @ MA Narasimhachar Music Foundation's 16th Annual Music Festival

Vocal: Vid. RanjaniGayathri 
Violin: Vid. HNBhaskar 
Mridanga: Vid. ManojSiva 
Ghata: Vid. OmkarGRao 

Organiser / Occasion : MA Narasimhachar Music Foundation's 16th Annual Music Festival
Venue : Bangalore Gayana Samaja

01 gaNanAyakam bhajEham rudrapriyA m.dIkshitar (S)
Swaras

02 sItApate nA manasuna siddhantamani yunnanu khamAs Adi thyAgarAja (N, S)
Nereval at prEma jUchi nA pai

03 mAyammA eni nI pilachithE Ahiri Adi shyAmA shAsthri

04 kELenO hari tALenO kalyANi m.cApu p.dAsa (A, S, T)
grahabEdha to shuddhadhanyAsi during AlApane by Gayathri.
swaras @ dhriDabhaktaranu kUDi

07 manasA srI rAmachandruni IshamanOhari Adi tyAgarAja

08 rAga tAna pallavi sAramati tiSra tripuTa TiSra naDai 2 kaLai eDupu ?
pallavi line: sAkshAtara sagIta sadbhakti...sArasAksha manasAramatini
rAgamAlika swaras in SAranga, sindhubhairavi

10 ugAbhOga (maganendADisidaLu..)sahAna vasantha kApi

11 jagadodharana ADisidale yashOdA kApi Adi p.dAsa

12 paga gungurUrE mishra pIlu mIra bhajan

13 bhUt mOTe abhANg

14 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja

2017 Oct 27 RamakrishnanMurthy HKVenkatram ArjunKumar AnirudhAtreya BGS47thConference

Vocal: Vid. RamakrishnanMurthy 
Violin: Vid. HKVenkatram 
Mridanga: Vid. ArjunKumar 
Khanjari: Vid. AnirudhAtreya 

Venue / Occasion: BGS 47th Conference , Bangalore Gayana Samaja

01 mOhana rAma mOhana Adi tyAgarAja (O, N, S)
nereval and swara @ dhara manujAvatAra mahima vini 

02 kOluvai yunnADE kOdanDapANi dEvagAndhAri Adi tyAgarAja (O)

03 ETi janmam idihA O rAma varALi tripuTa tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)
nereval @ sAgara shayanuni tyAgarAjanutuni

04 ennaga manasuku neelAmbari Adi tyAgarAja

05 haridAsulu vEDalE yamunAkalyANi Adi tyAgarAja

06 RTPK  - Bhairavi 
AlApane with vaidEhi sahitam  and tAna in bhairavi
pallavi khaNDa tripuTa 2 kaLai 2 beats after samam
pallavi line: uraga rAja shayana srI rAma 

rAgamAlika - Infinite of them .. Kalyani, dhanyAsi, kEdAra, begaDe, bindumAlini, kuntalavarALi, navarasakannada, husEni, sAranga, bauLi, rEvagupti, darbAr, sEsh, surUTi, and back to Bhairavi and many more which I could not recognise in the speed of delivery

07 shri rAma jaya rAma shringAra rAma yadukula kAmbOdhi tALa?  tyAgarAja

08 karuNA jaladhE dhAsharaThE nAdhanAmakriya Adi tyAgarAja

09 nI nAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja

2017 Feb 11 RanjaniGayathri HNBhaskar SaiGiridhar NGuruprassad @ RLKM (Spring Festival)

Vocal: Vid. RanjaniGayathri 
Violin: Vid. HNBhaskar 
Mridanga: Vid. SaiGiridhar 
Ghata: Vid. NGuruprassad 

Organiser: Sri Rama Lalita Kala Mandira
Occasion: Spring Festival

01 sarasija nAbha mAm pAhi varNa nATa Adi paramEShwara bhAgavathar

02 sharANu benakane kanaka rUpane bilahari Adi purandara dAsa (CS, S)
swara @ sharaNu benakane

03 arivAr yAr unnai arivAr mukhAri aruNAcala kavi

04 ninnu jeppa kAraNamEmi mandAri patnam subhramanya iyer (A, N, S)
nereval and swara @ ghanalOlaina vEnakTEsha

05 chEtah sri bAlakrishnam bhajarE dwijAvanthi rUpaka m.dikshithar

06 rAmA nIyeDa prEma rahitulaku kharaharapriyA Adi tyAgarAja (A, S, T)
swara@ pada sowkhya

07 DaNgUrava sArIrayya vasantha Adi p.dAsa

08 rAga tAna pallavi sarasAngi khaNDa tripuTa (chaturaSra , tiSra naDai   dwinaDai)
grahabEdha to ranjani (by gAyatri) during rAga AlApane
Pallavi Line: rAgarasa rAgayuta sarasa rasanE rAsa vilAse sarasAngi krite
Ragamalika Swara : Anandabhairavi, bahudAri, shubhapantuvarALi, kumdakriya, dEsh

09 Viruttum (kuLir mazhai kAkka...) (rAgamAlikA in dhanyAsi, valaji, kAnaDa ) followed by 
enna solli azhaittAl kAnaDa Ambujam Krishna

10 aparAdhi nAnalla rEvati purandara dAsa

11 atha kOTHe dAve mana mana abhang bhImpalAs tukArAm

12 nInAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja

If even at 2045 when the concert is supposed to end, the audience are taking a sneak peek into the hall to find a seat to sit, then undoubtedly, it must be Ra Ga sister's delivering yet another stellar concert. Today was one such day where Bangalore Gayana Samaja's capacity was tested .

With hall filled to the brim 1 full hour before the concert, supplemented by the weekend factor, the sisters were in best of their form another extended concert to the delight of the audience and the organisers. Sisters gave an unforgettable nectarine concert to an "class" audience today, assisted by 2 students playing 2 tambUri for each one of them. 

The concert started on schedule, with a nATa varNa composed by paramEshwara bhAgavatar (although I was expecting one composed by PSI). 

The obesceince to Ganapathi was the apt choice through presenting a purandara dAsa composition in bilahari. The chiTTeswaras (im damn sure it was not a part of the original composition, probably added by the Sisters) and each enunciated sAhitya syllable demonstrated their perfunctory approach in mastering the kannada songs. The swaras @ sharaNu benakane was apt in the choice of cycles and duration. I belive it was their first presentation to a Kannada audience. The jump into chiTTeswaras with ri ga pa mA ga ri sa... added punch to the presentation.

They skipped the convetional AlApane for the 3rd song directly dwelling into a leisurely persentation of mukhAri kriti, an indication of the length of the concert to come. They were unhurried in their approach and emotive.

mandAri AlApane was well paced. Starting with lower speeds and registers, Vid. Ranjani traversed the 0.5 + 1.0 + 0.5 octaves with ease to bring out the essence of the rAga. There was no doubt during any part of the AlApane. Violin accompaniment left wanting more volume for the last row audience. Vid. HN Bhaskar on the violin was good and received abundant applause and frequently through the concert. Ninnu jeppa, the popular composition from PSI was the speedy presentation. The composition ended in a jiffy, inspite of being embellished by nereval and swaras at  ghanalOlaina vENkaTEsha.

chEtah Sri bAlaksrishnam, though a filler, was dealt in a leisurely pace. Sisters make it a point to have one druta gati and viLamba gati fillers in their concert, and today was no exception.

Kharaharapriya AlApane, by Vid gAyatri showcased the depth of creativity and strenth of spontenity. There were many moments of violin exactly replicating the AlApane sangaitis pepping her up to deliver more.  She efforlessly soaring from lower, middle and upper sthayi and seamless traversing between them quite frequently is a delight to watch, with violinist adding the finer touches as he followed like a shadow throughout the concert, especially in the AlApane. The hand signs to increase the violin volume fell on blind eyes of the sound engineer, who hardly made any changes to the volume level. It needed pin drop silence and high levels of attentiveness to grasp the violin returns throughout. Since it was long enough, it gave a clue of a possible pratimadhyama rAga RTP to follow.

rAmA ni yeDa had its full fledged embellishments. Nereval was done in multiple cycles, so was swaras. Vid. Sai Giridhar dominated the percussion support almost like an opening batsman playing with 11th man trying to save the match. There was hardly any opportunity for the non striking partner Vid. N Guruprassad, which I felt was unfair. 

Tani brought out the best of what Vid. N Guruprassad had in store, but could not show through the accompaniment for the songs till then.

Druta kAla filler , yet another kannada in rAga vasanta was delightful. 

Though I felt a higher traces of chArukEshi, sarasAngi rAga tAna shared by the sisters was a delight to listen. Till now, none of the rAgas had repetition to any of the previous concert on this stage during this season. Such was the meticulous preparation as they had the last possible slot to perform in this season.  This AlApane in tandem also swelled into grahabEda (ranjani / dharmavati?) showcasing their strong fundamentals.

They are known to take challenging pallavi, and today was no exception. The dwi-naDai pallavi in khaNDa tripuTa and a pretty long pallavi line with an eDupu challenged each one on the stage to be on their toes for the 30 minutes of pallavi rendition. Few rAgamAlika rounds were delivered leisurely. While most of them were popular, kumudakriya was announced at the end of its rendition.

Vote of thanks (which I usually dont review / speak about) deserves a mention for 2 reasons. Sri Krishna Prasad has been doing a yomen service to the cause of music. He deserves applause from the whole house for organising such a glitch free high quality SPRING FESTIVAL. God bless such organisers. It was also announced that SANGEETHA VEDANTA DHUREENA 2018 will be conferred on the Sisters, next year on the same day ! Even before the sentence was completed, the audience stood up to applaud, one of the longest that I had heard in today's concert. It was a surprise announcement, and the expression on the sister's face was worth a capture, which i missed being in the last rows of the hall today.

rAgamAlika viruttum (kuzhir mazhai kAkka... ) followed by enna solli by Ambujam Krishna and aparAdhi nAnalla in rEvati by purandara dAsa were fillers before the customary abhANG. 

An hour of waiting and 3.5 hrs of concert had not drained me either. Audience were still trying to thong inside the hall to get a glimpse of the stage. The song list shows you how they well deserve the award they would be conferred next year in this sabha. Wide selection in terms of composers, language, tALa is just a glimpse of their repoirtre. They are in the best of their form and one would not want to miss their 2 more visits in as many weeks to Bangalore in the near future. Looking forward for that.

Left with a feeling of 100% satisfaction, as I was accompanied by my K and G, who rarely join me in my concert exploration journeys.

2017 Feb 09 AbhishekRaghuram CharulataRamanujam AnanthaRKrishnan GGuruprasanna @ RLKM

Vocal: Vid. AbhishekRaghuram 
Violin: Vid. CharulataRamanujam 
Mridanga: Vid. AnanthaRKrishnan 
Khanjira: GGuruprasanna 

Organiser: Sri Rama Lalita Kala Mandira
Occasion: Spring Festival

01 vanajAkSirO I viraha kalyANi varNa Adi rAmanathapuram srInivAsa iyengAr (O)

02 O jagadambA Anandabhairavi Adi shyAmA sAstri (O)

03 shObhillu saptasvara jaganmOhini rUpakA tyAgaraja

04 nijamuga nI mahimalu shahAna Adi tyAgarAja (A, N, S)
nereval @ nijamuga

05 sAramEgAni anya mArga vicharametike kAmavardhini tripuTa tyAgarAja (A, N, S, T)
nereval @ sAmagAna lOluDou

06 hechcharikAgA rA yadhukula kAmbOdhi khanda jhampa thyAgarAja (O)

07 nAma kusumamulacE pUjincE shrI Adi tyAgarAja (A, N)
Nereval @ vinOduni

08 rAga tAna pallavi shankrabharana tiSra TripuTa 1 Kalai
pallavi line: vinavayya pancha nagadIsha
rAgamAlika: KalyaANi, tODi

09 Adi dEva paramAtma vEda vEdAnta vEdya rEvati aNNamacharya

10 patiki hAratIrE sItApatiki hAratIrE suraTiAdi tyAgarAja

11 nInAma rUpamulaku mangaLa sourAshtra Adi tyAgarAja

It is rarely that a phenomenon takes place in the world, and very rarely you are a witness when its in the making. It is even more rare that you recognise it when its happening and enjoy the feel of being there. An epoch-making artist of far-reaching consequence that would change the course of history, or make an impact that will reverberate for the generations to come, especially in the field of his expertise.

The advent of a younger generation musicians has all heralded new beginnings in their own realms. Especially, in the world of Carnatic music, the advent of artists like Abhishek Raghuram, Vid. Ramakrishnan Murthy, Vid. Saketaraman, Vid. Bharath Sundar, Vid. Shashank Subramanian has changed the course and perception of music, among the generations of rasikas alike. The harbingers of a new age in classical music, these youngsters draw and sustain full house rasikas through the entirety of the concert. No rasika will go back home wanting for more after a full 3-hour treat. Never ever they have ended the concert earlier than schedule, promising 110% of their potential in each of the concerts. Not without reason, the foremost of which was they are contemporaries and their work is such that after their times, Carnatic music was never the same again.

Last 3 concerts of Vid. Abhishek Raghuram (@Nadasurabhi Nov 2016, @MMA Dec 2016 and the current concert in context) has been blowing me and other audience off their foot and elevating to greater heights. His work was an embodiment of grandeur and depth, both in melody and poesy, afford us a glimpse into the summit of perfection he attained and the heights that he can scale when there is no restriction on the closing of the concert.

Vid. Abhishek Raghuram's music is a throwback to many past masters, primarily the late GNB, but the late MDR is not immediately invoked when you hear Abhishek in full flow. Nothing in the music is common at an apparent layer between these two artists. However, Vid. Abhishek Raghuram's recent concert at SRLKM Spring Festival took me back immediately to what is possibly my favourite MDR concert - with the same RTP in SankarAbharaNa (vinavaIyyA panCanadISA) and a reasonably elaborate SrIrAga AlApanE. If you peel the music past the speed, there does exist some commonality of musical sensibilities between these two artists!

Vid. Abhishek Raghuram started with a brisk rendition of the kalyANI Adi tALa varNA, with some quick fire swaraprasthArA. O jagadambA in AnandabhaIravI followed, though not a very sedate pace. 

After a brief outline of jaganmOhinI, sobhillu saptasvara was presented in a majestic gait, with Vid. Abhishek Raghuram's trademark swaraprasthAra at the Pallavi. sahAnA was leisurely by his standards.

The first major AlApanE of the day followed in the form of a brilliant pantuvarALI, followed by the not often heard sAramEgAni of Thyagaraja. An elaborate neraval at sAma gAna vinOduni and swaraprasthArA followed. Then came the elaborate tanI AvartanE - my ability to dissect the technical aspects of the tanI is very limited, so I shall limit myself to saying that it was elaborate, with very clear nAdam from both percussionists and I could make out several patterns in miSram and khaNDam, besides the usual Catusram and tisram. It was received very well by the audience at large. 40 mins did not appear to be a dragging one.

heCCarikaga rArA was rendered again at a pace that was leisurely by his standards, but the closing of the song with sanCArAs in the tAra sthayI, I felt, went against the pleading or cajoling spirit of the song. Minor quibbles I must say.

At this point, Vid. Abhishek Raghuram asked for requests for rAgA for the RTP and there was a veritable Tower of Babel of sounds. What irked me a bit was a consistent call for devarnAmA at this stage - here was an artiste asking to sing an RTP, and a part of the audience was already pushing him to the tukkaDA section! Anyway, AR announced that Vid. Charulatha had requested him to sing nAma kusuma in SrIrAgA, and he proceeded to give a splendid rendition of the same after a fairly elaborate AlApane. Again, having heard this particular kriti by SSI, MDR and a couple of years back by TMK  (@ SRSM, 2014) in Bangalore, it did feel more hurried, but I still came out feeling quite satisfied with the whole piece. The AlApane in particular was grand for a track to be delivered just before RTP.

RTP duly followed and in a grand SankarAbharaNa too! While the AlApane and tAna were brilliant, the pallavI and its neraval was truly stupendous. The technical embellishments that AR provided into the neraval were a tough act to follow and the accompanists did seem at edge! Part of the neraval was done in graha bhEda mode, transitioning to kalyANI and tODI. Unfortunately, as Vid. Guru Prasanna had a hard stop, the pallavi was shortened quite a bit.

For the same reason, the concert wound down pretty quickly after that, with an annamACAryA kriti and patiki hArathI, followed by the mangaLam.

At the risk of hyperbole, I believe AR is truly on the verge of being inducted into the Carnatic hall of fame of all time greats. Some viLamba arrows would complete his quiver and push him firmly into that pantheon.