TN Seshagopalan, Carnatica's Bharath Sangeeth Utsav

TN Seshagopalan - M Chandrasekaran - Umayalpuram K Sivaraman - TV Vasan

Narada Gana Sabha Hall. 22nd Nov '05

entO prema -suruTTi varNam
nAn yenna tavam seidEn - khamAs - Adi
sArasAksha - kAmavardini - Adi - ST (R, N and S at bAmini...)
brindAvana lOla - tODi - rUpakam - T (R, S at 'mAmava srI...')
slOkam "kR.SNAya vAsudEvAya dEvaki nandanAyaca nandagOpa kumArAya gOvindAya namO namaha" followed by cEta srI - dvijAvanti - tisra Ekam - MD (R)
bAlagOpAla - bhairavi - Adi (2 kaLai) - MD (R, N and S at 'nIla nIrada sarIra dIradara')
tani
RTP - shanmukhapriyA - kaNDa tripuTa (2 kaLai) 1 3/4 eDuppu (14 aksharams)
'paravasam miga AgudE kaNNA unnai ninaindhu ninaindhu nenjam'
ragamAlika svarams in valaji, nIlAmbari and kapi
Gopi GopAla LAla DAsa Mandala - gamanAsrama
Vijaya Gopalathe Mangalam - Surutti

I entered while he was wrapping up the suruTTi piece, which i was told was the varNam and i had to leave after the RTP.

kAmavardini AlApanai was nice. The neraval was not fully done while svarams were good. The tODi piece was a bit off beat without gelling well. The dvijAvanti AlApanai was very indicative of a main piece. The viLamba kala rendition of cEta srI was very moving. The time-tested bAlagOpAla and the bhairavi AlApanai which preceeded were good as usual. The pallavi left a lot to be desired with a lot of unexplored parts in terms of raga alapanai, which included graha bedham. the tanam was good. The pallavi part was less explored while TNS Krishna did some change of naDais at the end. TNS had only sang a few snatches of valaji and kApi while instructing his son to continue. TNS' nIlambari svarams were nice.

TNS' voice was good with a proper range, while the alignment to sruthi went offbeat more than expected of him. His rendition of kritis and all his creativity were at his best with all that he could do being portrayed. MC was out of ideas and was playing popular kriti and cine tunes all over. Personally, I found a lot of Sahana phrases in MC's dvijAvanti AlApanai. UKS was his good old self playing to the kritis with each sangati being meticulously followed. The tani was different with UKS choosing to play all the cycles in one flow leaving just the korappu before TVV could take off. TVV was good in all parts. The short tani after the pallavi with korappu to the start of the pallavi were good.

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