Mohan Santanam, Triplicane Rasika Samaj

Mohan Santanam - M A Sundareswaran - R Ramesh

The evening started with a varNam in chArukEsi by LGJ, followed by sObillu in jagan mOhini with swarams at 'sapthaswara'. The Svarajati kAmAkshI in bhairavi was very well rendered with neraval at 'shyama krishna'. The first ragam elaborated was gAngEyabhUshani and the tyagaraja kriti EvvarR rAmayyA was beautifully presented. The HMB kriti vAnchthOnu in karnaranjani was the next piece with brisk swarams at the end. The main piece of the concert was MD's dakShiNAmUrtE in shankarAbaraNam. The Alapanai was nice and did the kriti was well rendered. The improvisations in all the kritis were good. Shri. M A Sundareswaran was just doing a great job with the violin and all his essays were beautiful. Shri. Ramesh gave wonderful accompaniment and his tani was brillianto. The concert ended with a brindAvana sAranga tillanA.

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