Lalgudi GJR Krishnan - Vijayalakshmi, Music Club IIT Madras

Lakgudi GJR Krishnan - Vijayalakshmi Violin duet
Umayalpuram K Sivaraman mrudangam
T V Vasan Ghatam

Music Club, IIT Madras. 11th August 2005

varNam - husEni - Adi - LGJ
ninnu ceppa - mandAri - Adi - paTNam subramanian iyer (RS)
idE bhAgyamu - kannaDa - misra cApu - T (RS)
nA mOrAlakinci - danyAsi - rUpakam - vINai kuppaiyar (RNS)
vinarAdA - dEvagAndAri - Adi - T (R)
rAmA nIyaDa - kharaharapriyA - Adi - T (RS)
taniyAvartanam
annapurNe - sAma - Adi - MD
adi nI pai - yamuna kalyANi - dharmapuram subbarAyar jAvaLi
tIrAda viLaiyaTTu - rAgamAlikA - bharatiyAr
tillAnA - hamsAnandi - Adi - LGJ
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshtram - T

The concert started with a beautiful sketch of usEni by Sri Krishnan and the varNam was rendered very well showing all the essential sancarams of the ragam.

Sri Krishnan's short AlApanais for both mandAri and kaNNaDa were very good. Especially, the gAndAram of mandAri, which was beautifully brought out, deserves a mention. The kritis were rendered well and so were the swarams which followed.

Smt. Vijayalakshmi did a good job with the dhanyAsi AlApanai. Her phrases were well structured and neat. The kriti, with sparkling cittaswaras composed by kAraikuDi subbarAma iyer, was presented well with neraval and svarams

The short dEvagAndAri sketch and the kriti were good again. Sri Krishnan's KharaharapriyA AlApanai was satisfactory but not in the class of the short sketches of ragas that he had played in the earlier part of the concert. Niraval had to be dropped to allow enough time for the tani. The post-main part of the concert featured a good rendition of annapurNe visAlakshi. The tillana was good and showed the raga svarupam.

Sri Sivaraman showed what a high class mridangist can do to embellish a concert and keep up its tempo. Never to dominate or overshadow the main artists, he was majestic all thro' the concert. His playing was very enjoyable, enticing the audience to be in rhytm with him! Sri Vasan played well both while accompanying the main artists and during the tani.

bharath