T N Seshagopalan, Papanasam Sivan Rasigar Mandram & Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan

T N Seshagopalan - M Chandrasekaran - Guruvayur Durai - A S Krishnan

Papanasam Sivan Rasigar Mandram and Bharathiya Vidhya Bhavan

26th September 2005 7 pm

sivanai ninaindhu stuti - kAmbhOji - Adi(2) (R)
mUlAdAra mUrtI - hamsadvani - Adi (S)
'agnyAnAntha' and 'kAladiyil avadarita' - slOkams on sankarAchAryA in shankarAbaraNam
thiru kumAranAi avadarittAr - sankarAbaraNam - Adi
dasartAtmajam - pUrvikalyANi - rUpakam (RS)
sittam irangAdadEnaiyyA - sahAnA - misra cApu
thaNigai vaLar saravaNa bavA - tODi - kaNDa cApu (RNS)
taniyAvardanam
kanindaruL - kalyANi - tisra Adi (NS)
kA vA vA - varALi - Adi
enna tavam - kApi - Adi

Thanks to the over delayed award ceremony, the concert started a good 50 mintues late with a short kAmbhOji AlApanai. The svarams in the hamsadvani kriti were nice. The slOkams in sankarAbaraNam were rendered showing the rAga bhAvam. The pUrvikalyANi AlApanai was nicely rendered and so were the svarams.

The tODi AlApanai lacked weight. The neraval and svarams were just rendered in a hurry. The tani in kaNDa cApu was nice and something one does not get to hear all that often. The kalyANi nerval and svarams were good in parts.

Sri Seshagopalan had throat problems from the beginning, even while his acceptance speech. The sruthi lapses were more blatant and during the kalyANi svarams, the whole korappu went off beat in both sruthi and tALam. He could not impart rigour into even heavy kritis like kA vA vA, lets not ask for some of the first-time-heard kritis.

Sri Chandrasekaran did a good job in accompanying. Sri Durai was good thro' the concert and his tani was good also. Sri Krishnan who left the stage as soon as the screens went, rejoined just during the sankarAbaraNam and was good all thro the concert and tani.