T N Seshagopalan, Krishna Gana Sabha

Krishna Gana Sabha on 23rd December 2005

TN Seshagopalan
Mysore Manjunath
Trichy Sankaran
S Karthick

hecharika gA rA - yadukula kAmbhOdi - kaNDa cApu - T(S)
srI rAjagOpalA - sAvEri - Adi - MD (R,S)
srI kAnta niyaDa - bhavapriyA - Adi - T (R,S)
abhayambikAyA - sahAnA - MD
chakkani rAja - kharaharapriyA - Adi - T (RNS)
Tani
durmArgachara - ranjani - rUpakam - T
RTP - bAge srI - 'sOmasundarEsvaraya priya vAmabAgE srI rAjamAtangI' - khaNDa tripuTa (2 kaLai) sama eDuppu. Ragamalika svarams in hindOLam, rItigauLa, rEvati, valaci, kuntaAavarALi, nIlAmbari, bUpALam
tillAnA - hamIrkalyANi - Adi - TNS
vijaya gOpAlatE mangaLam - suruTTi - Adi - NT
sriyatkAntAya - srI rAgam.

TNS' sAvEri was not all that exhaustive. Also, the usage of some of the dhArasthAyi prayOgams which are not appropriate of sAvEri did not make me happy. His bhavapriyA was good and quite different from an earlier occasion when i heard him sing bhavapriyA. Contrary to that concert, his bhavapriyA was not sounding like anyother ragam. The kharaharapriyA was not all that great.

Manjunath's violin good and living up to whatever TNS did. He actually followed all that TNS sang thro' the concert. I could clearly hear him as i was sitting on stage. He was actually very good in an absolute sense. For the kind of violinsts TNS usually goes with, he was far better.

TS played really very well. One could hear him playing all the sangatis. Karthik was good also.