Sowmya at Narada Gayana Sabha & Bangalore Gayana Samaj

S Sowmya - Pakala Ramdas - Neyveli Narayanan

Narada Gana Samaj and Bangalore Gayana Samaj

27th Nov 2005 at Sadguru Gnanananda Hall

karuNimpa idi - sahAnA - Adi
srI nAtAdi gurguhO - mAyAmALavagauLa - Adi - MD (S)
nimma bhAgya dhODDadhO - bEgaDa - rUpakam - PD (R)
kANavENDAmO - srIranjani - rUpAkam
ninnu vinA - pUrvikalyANi - cApu - SS (RNS)
taniyAvartanam
thiruvai paNindu niththam - mAND - Adi
chidambaram pOgAmal - senchuruTTi - Adi
rAma nAma bhajarE - madhyamAvati - Adi - T
nI nAma rUpamulaku

The concert started quite late, thanks to the extended felicitation function to DKP and LGJ

The varNam was well rendered. srI nAthAdi was nicely sung with svarams at 'jayathi jayathi'.

The bEgaDa AlApanai was well rendered and a fitting prelude to the dAsa kriti.

The main AlApanai of pUrvikalyANi was elaborated with leisure and made a good impact. The kriti with neraval and svarams at 'paramalObhulanu pOgaDi pOgaDi ati' was nice.

The post tani part also was good and enjoyable.

Sri Ramdas on the violin was good in accompanying and his individual parts, though he seemed to be a bit lost during the svarams of 'srI nAtAdi' in getting to the correct point in the tALam where the sAhityam starts

Sri Narayanan did a good job in accompanying and during his tani, which sounded a bit repetitive though.

Overall, concert was nice and gave good impact though it lasted for just over an hour. May be classifiable as a radio concert with a couple of tukkaDas thrown in.