Vijay Siva, Tattvaloka

N Vijay Siva - Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi - N Manoj Siva

tattvalOkA, 76, Eldams Road, Alwarpet

23rd September 2005, 6:30 pm. Theme - sAktham.

dayAnIdE - bEgaDa varNam - SS
amba vANi - kIravANi - Adi - HMB (NS)
srI kAmAkshI mAm pAhi - sArangA - Adi (2) - aNNAsvAmi sAstri (RS)
srI sAradAmbAm bhajE - khamAs - tisra Ekam - sringEri bhArati svAmigaL (RN)
inimElAyinum undan - darbAr - Adi - rAmasvAmi sivan
nannu kanna talli - sindhukannaDa - Adi - T
'kalyANIm' - slOkam on kamalAmbikA in bhairavi
srI kamalAmbikAyAh - bhairavi - misra jhampa (2) - MD (RNS)
taniyAvardanam
srI shAradA bhUjangam - naLinakAnti, nATTaikuranji, srI rAgam, kIravANi, latAngi, sAmA, jagan mOhini, chArukEsi - Adi sankarar
'EkArAdi samastha' - slOkam on rAja rAjEsvari in senchuruTTi, punnAgavarALi
sivangangA nagara nivAsini - punnAgavarALi - PS
ninnai caraNaDaindEn kaNNammA - yamunakalyANi - bhArathiyAr (R)
karpagamE - madhyamAvati - Adi - PS
srI kamalAmbikE - srI rAgam - MD

Thanks to parking problems on Eldams Road and the traffic there, I could reach the hall only during the kIravANi neraval, which was good and so were the svarams which followed. I was told about the opening bEgaDa varNam.

The sArangA AlApanai was very well structured carefully avoiding other closely allied rAgas. The kriti was very well rendered with nice svarams at the pallavi line.

The khamAs AlApanai again was a very neatly presented one. The sancArams were not overdone. The kriti was good, with neraval at 'srI sankarAcAryam sam sEvitAkrIm' to be followed the slow nAyaki kriti and brisk sindhu kannaDa piece.

The main bhairavi AlApanai was something to remember always. The elabOrate AlApanai followed by the slOkam, was fitting to the grand kriti which was rendered well. The neraval and svarams at 'nAda maya sUkshma rUpa sarva siddhipradAdi dasa shaktyArAdhita mUrtE' were done extensively in both mEl kAlam and kIzh kAlam. There was also a change of naDai displayed during the neraval.

The ashTarAgamAlikA 'srI shAradhA bhUjangam' was good with each rAgam coming for two lines of the slOkam. The slOkam which followed showed the possiblities of elaborAtions in the rAgams taken up. The punnAgavarALi kriti was well rendered and the rAga bhAvam was brought out well.

The AlApanai of yamunakalyANi and the bhAratiyAr song which followed displayed the amount of elegance the rAgam holds.

The brisk madhyamAvati and srI rAga kritis back-to-back led to the end of the concert.

Sri Vijay Siva displayed his vidvat very undisputably in all parts of the concert. His AlApanais, neravals and the svarams were all good and enjoyable.

Smt Vijayalakshmi was always measuring up to the main artist in all departmemts. Sri Manoj Siva was good in accompanying the artist according the sangati sang and also during the nerval and svarams. The tani was good also.

This new venue built by the sringEri maTam is good in all respects. It has a great ambience, good acoustics and nice seating arrangement. It would do good if the people concerned, adjust the air-conditioners in a better way and also make some space for parking two-wheelers also in their ground floor car parking facility.