A Sundaresan, Shyama Sastri Day, Music Club IIT Madras

A Sundaresan
V V Ravi
Mannargudi Eswaran

Music Club IIT Madras Shyama Sastri Day

6th April 2006 7 pm

nA manavini vinu - saurAshTRam varNam - catusra jAti aTa tALam (R)
nannu brOva rAdA - janaranjani - cApu (RS)
sankari sankurU - sAvEri - tisra Adi (RNS)
brOvavammA - mAnji - cApu
ninnE namminAnu - tODi - cApu (RNS)
taniyAvardanam
brova samayamidE - punnAgavarALi - Adi (R)
sankari sankari - kalyANi - kaNDa aTa

The concert started with a beautiful sketch of saurAshTRam with the varNam rendered beautifully. The janaranjani AlApanai which followed showed the essential sancarams of the rAgam. The svaram which followed were good also.

The AlApanai of sAvEri was very good and the kriti was rendered with neraval and svarams at 'shyAma krSNa sahOdari shyAmaLe sAdOdari'. The clever usage of a catusra kArvai for a tisra naDai kriti all thro' the svaras was nice. The mAnji kriti was rendered with a lot of bhavam.

The main tODi AlApanai was good and revealed all the beauty of the grand rAgam. The kriti was rendered with neraval and svarams at 'kAmAkshI kancadaLAyadAkshI'. The punnAgavarALi AlApanai was too good as well and so was the kriti which followed.

Sri Sundaresan did a great job handling the Shyama Sastri kriti with a lot of ease. His rendition of kritis and also the manOdarmam were all too good.

Sri Ravi on the violin did a good job in all his replies to the main replies. He showed his capablities of being a good violinst in each phrase he played.

Sri Eswaran was just amazing. His playing for each kriti and each sangati and very apt following for the neraval and svarams were all good. The tani was very good also.

bharath