S R Janakiraman, Musiri Chambers

Musiri Chambers - 9th April 2005 - 6.01 pm

S R Janakiraman - S Varadarajan - Mannargudi Esvaran

slOkam - hamsadvani
tAna varNam - ninnu kOri - gamakakriyA - aTa tALam - soNTi venkaTasubbaiah
svEta gaNapatim vandE - rAgacUDAmaNi - tisra tripuTa - dIkshitar (AlApanai)
rAga sasivadanA - takkA - Adi -tyAgarAja
evarUrA - mOhanam - misra cApu - tyAgarAja (AlApanai, svarams)
paNi pati sAyI - jhankAradvani - Adi - tyAgarAja (AlApanai, svarams)
kanchadaLAyadAkshi - manOharI - Adi - dIkshitar (AlApanai, neraval, svarams)
nIrajAkshi - hindOLam - rUpakam - dIkshitar
tiruvaDi caraNam - kAmbhOji - Adi - gOpAlakRSNa bhArati (neraval,svarams)
taniyAvardanam
praNatAtihara - 72 mELa rAgamAlikA - Adi - mahAvaidhyanAta sivan (only second cakaram - sEnapati, hanuma tOdi, dhEnukA, nATakapriyA, kOkilapriyA, rUpavati)
viruttam - viritha senjaDaiyADa - Anandabhairavi, bilahari, shaNmukhapriyA
tillAnA
slOkam - madhyamAvati

Prof SRJ started off with a superb slokam in hamsadvani dedicated to tyAgarAjA, it ended as tyAgarAjam bhajE

He annouced the varNam and it was just thrilling to listen to the grand varNam, with almost no pUrvikalyANi. Quite refreshing and different from the standard varNams one gets to hear in concerts. SRJ sung the pallavi line after the caraNam and said thats the sampradAyam to finish off a varNam.

rAgacUDAmaNi AlApanai and kriti were very well rendered, which also was announced and so was rAga sasivadanA which followed. mOhanam AlApanai was good and nicely sung and so was the kriti.

jhankAradvani AlApanai was the mark of the concert. the kriti phaNIpati sAyI was also rendered with a lot of bhava and the svarams were very good. manOhari AlApanai, kriti, the neraval and svarams were all really good.

nIrajAkshI was rendered well with rUpakam expanded as a dhrutam and laghu and not the regular way. When SRJ started tiruvaDi caraNam, it did not seem to be the main piece as there was no AlApanai. I am not sure if one should call a kriti, if it is sans either AlApanai, neraval, svarams or tani. Well whats there in the classification, the kriti was sang very very well and the neraval at 'eDuta jananam kaNakku yezhuda tholaiyAdu' and the svarams were just great.

the post tani part had the mELarAgamAlikA's 2nd cakram alone to be followed by the viruttam and tillAnA all of which were superb.

Varadarajan on the violin was good and provided good support. Esvaran on the mrudangam was very good all thro' and his tani was good also.

one memorable concert...